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Show "Lunnon" Likes It '"Ot." It m;tv be that tho quality of Imagl-natloi Imagl-natloi wus lacking In tho Boston and Salem merchants who attempted in 1842, in Introduco American Ice Into London, says tho Atlantic. Ono of them tried to attain this end by demonstrating dem-onstrating tho merits of American Iced drinks. Ho hired a hall as tho story goes and trained a number of men to mix tho cool beverages of his natlvo land. The membors of tho Fishmongers' association presumably as fond of turtlo as aldermen themselves them-selves were tho guosts. Tho waiters wait-ers mado an Imposing ontry; but, alas, tho first sound 'hat mot tho ear of tho American "promoter," expecting expect-ing a chorus ot approval, was that ot an English volco calling for hot water, wat-er, and saying: "I profer It, all In all." The American completes the story: "I made a dead rush tor tho door, next day settled my bills In London, Lon-don, took a train for Liverpool and the steamer for Boston, and counted up a clear loss of 1,200." |