Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-05-22 | Page 12 | Leon, Please Set up a Pair of Dry Xochitls

L LEON PLEASE SET SETUP liP tA LA t PAIR OF DRY t t Uti t i if f IB Beautiful Maiden Malden of That Name Invented Cocktails in Ancient Mexico Slay bray 2 22 Though Though h for a Ii time Americans may may war with Mexico they ther oona owe the troubled rl republic an eternal debt debtor for or the Uia Invention of the co cocktail which the United Stat States 5 has perfected as a fine tine art The name IK h an Aztec i word ord from rom a a. beautiful maiden malden who won the tho e eheart heart beart of or the kinG of It Mexico xico b by her skill in preparing a B. drink which l combined sweet and bitter aromatic and soothing qualities b Ne New Hence the name became came Into c cocktail though Inston ington Irving Irvine wrote of or th the Dutch founders of New fW York that the they claimed to be tho the first Inventors of the recondite era be beverages eR stone fence and eberry cobbler Manhattans and Martinis we kno know bu but what was was was-or or Js Is-a Is a stone fence the beautiful Indian maid maiden of oC n POO Oo years ears ago asro is responsible for the Mexican ilex Mex lean ican national drink pulque pronounced She was the first flut to drink the sweet liquor from tho the maquey que plant cou cousin ln or of the aloe that blooms once in 00 years The drink in its fresh freh state Is 18 quite harmless but the modern Mexicans have debased it t bv by by fermentation and it hRS has no now become the curso of Mexico o. o It ap appears pears ears to have much the e same effect as some other national drinks for it softens the brain ruins the digestion and paralyzes para para- Jyz 5 the nerv nerves So disastrous a n hold has pulque upon tho the poorer classes that employers of labor avoid ovoid workers worker workers from the maguey mague fields If It they the can get labor e hert r here