Show stepmother of mint julep romance and poetry have delighted to weave garlands with which to celebrate and perpetuate the tha glory of the blue grass in old kentucky famed for its fine horses beautiful women and mint kentucky has been designated as the home of the mint julep and its colonels have become famous all over the world for the easy and graceful way in which they drink whisky with a little lash dash of sugar and a a sprig or two of mint in order chiefly to overcome the necessity for a largo large amount of water in the beverage tho the true kentuckian loe want his whisky drowned it transpires however that the real honic homo of the mint and the mint julep Is right here in missouri whose crop of mint last year amounted to pounds or enough to make juleps this amount includes the marketed product only no account having been taken of the countless shousan Is ds of juleps which were compo compounded unde J ing the year with a base of the ui uil 1 moonshine whisky that never 1 er paid a cent of tax st louis star |