Show stepmother of mint julep romance aud anti poetry have delighted to weave e garlands with which to celebrate anti and perpetuate the glory of the blue grass in old kentucky famed tor for its fine horses beautiful women and mint kentucky has been designated as aa the homo home of the mint julep and its colonels have hae become famous all over the world for tile the easy and graceful way in which they drink whisky with a little dash of sugar and a sprig or two of 0 mint in order chiefly to overcome the necessity for a largo large amount of water in the beverage the tha truo kentuckian Kentuck lan want his whisky dr drowned it transpires however that the real home of the mint and the mint julep Is right here in missouri souil 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 ho countless thousands of juleps which were compounded during tho the year with a base of the undiluted moonshine whisky that never paid a cent of tax st louis star |