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Show Passing of the Mixed Drink. People are abandoning the mixed drinks that were so popular a few years ago. It is not hard to stretch one's memory to recall tho time when John Collins, shorry cobblers, brandy smashes and Mmllur mlxod drinks wore common; but they aro rarely soen now, and oven the mint julep Is fast losing Its popularity. The bartonders say cocktails are being supplantod by straight drinks, and they do not mix ono drink now to ten they put up a dozen years ago. Straight drinks and highballs are tho most popular ones to-day, -but the cauao Is unexplained. |