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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 bard to stretch one's memory to recall the time when John Collins, sherry cobblers, brandy smashes and similar mixed drinks were common; but they are rarely " - iecntu-s-, and E7EE- -t3r-mlllt-folep -Is fast losing its popularity. The bartenders say cocktails are being supplanted by straight drinks, and they do not mix one drink now to ten they put up a dozen years ago. Straight drinks and highballs are the most popular ones to-day, but the cause is unexplained. |