Show stepmother of mint julep romance and poetry have delighted to weave garlands with which to celebrate and perpetuate the glory of the blue grass in old kentucky tamed famed for or its fine horses beautiful women and mint kentucky has been designated as the home ot of the mint julep and its colonels colone I 1 a have become famous all over the world tor for the easy and anal graceful way in which they drink whisky with a little dash of sugar and a sprig or two of mint in order chiefly to overcome the necessity for a large amount of water in the beverage the true kentuckian Kentuck lan want his whisky drowned it transpires however that the real home of the mint and the mint julep is right here in missouri whose crop of mint last year amounted to fcc ts pounds or enough to make juleps this amount includes the marketed product only no fio account having been taken of the countless thousands of juleps which were compounded during tho the year with a base of the undiluted moonshine whisky paid a cent of tax st louls louis star |