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Show , RUM AND01L . How to Go to Bed Sober and Wake Up Tight as a Judge. "Let me l-. v a little butter, please," said a stout, elderly gentleman, who stood in front of the Morton House bar the other evening, with a glass of steaming steam-ing hot rum before him. The white-aproned bartender bent down and from a shelf underneath the polished mahogany brought up a dish of butter, in which was stuck a silver knife. With this the man broke off a lump of butter and dropped it into his glass and stirred it about until it was melted. Then he drank the concoction slowly, with an oily smile overspreading his features. "Yes, it ia rather a curious drink," said the bartender to the reporter standing stand-ing by, "but it's a very pleasant one, and a great favorite with some gentlemen. Those who don't know of its effects, however, how-ever, had better leave it alone, for the effects are apt to be queer. The" man who drinks a number of those hot rums, would bequite sober when he went home, but in the morning when he woke up he Would be drunk as a lord. That's odd, isn't it?. But it's easy enough explained. It's because there is so much oil in the butter. , "Let me explain, and you can try it yourself. Take a bottle of sweet oil with yon when you go out with the boys the next time. Order any kind of liquor you like, though I wouldn't bother much with beer if I were you. Pour into your glass a few drops of "the sweet oil every time you take a drink. No matter how much you drink, you will keep sober, while your friends, if they have kept up with you, will be in a very 'how-came-you-so' condition. con-dition. You go home and go to bed feeling feel-ing all right, and in the morning, when you wake up, you will be dead drunk. The reason is simple. Oil, as you must know, rises to the surface. "Consequently, when you drink those oil-covered concoctions, the oil will remain re-main on the surface in your stomach, keeping the fumes of the liquor down. That prevents you from getting drunk. When you have stopped drinking and gone to "sleep, thus giving your interior arrangements a chance to go about their ordinary duties, the oil will gradually evaporate itself through the system, allowing al-lowing the fumes of the liquor to rise to your head. The consequence is that you awake in the morning 'full.' It's the funniest fun-niest thing in the world when a man has this experience for the first time. He can't understand it at all, neither can his wife, who has seen him go to bed sober the night before, and can't be persuaded that he has not got up during the early hours to take on the Joad he apparently has with him. Butter has the same effect as sweet oil, because it contains a large percentage of that fluid in its composition, com-position, so I'd advise you to leave hot rum and butter severely alone if you are ! a married man. But if you're going on a J trip, and want to take along a load that won't operate until the next day, you can try what oil will do for vou." New York Sun. - ' J |