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The PAUSE THAT REFRESHED B. C.
WHAT was the "pause that refreshes" B.C. . . . before colas and soft drinks?
It took years of inventing to produce today's bottled beverages, and until cheap ice and mechanical refrigeration skyrocketed the industry, cooling drinks were made at home. Without ice, at that, unless you were fortunate enough to have some cuttings from frozen ponds stowed away in your ice house.
Next to the perennial lemonade, a frothy cherry flip was perhaps the favorite cooler'offer of great-grandpa's day. To make it, fruit juice, raw egg, a small amount of sugar and maybe a sprinkle of nutmeg were "flipped" or shaken in a glass jar.
Fruit shrubs were also highly favored, combining juices and syrups from any of the great variety of sweet pickled fruits and preserves that embellished the tables of the times.
Just as popular was "switchel", a combination of ginger extract, molasses and sparkling cold well water "switched" in a stone jug. Farmers working in sun'parched fields found this a quick pick-up conveniently drunk straight from the jug.
Yet another pre-pop refresher, a tall glass of Yankee mead, was prepared by stirring together sassafras, molasses, water and sugar.
"Receipt" books of the 90's also mentioned "raspberry vinegar" . . . half crushed fresh berries and half sweetened vinegar.
Although these old-time drinks may sound amusing to our ice cube age, thirsty people "clutched at straws" as eagerly then as we do today when we can step to fountain or refrigerator and choose from a bewildering number of jewel'colored thirst stoppers! Margaret O. Kelley
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MONEY
MOST people want all of it that they can get . . . just never allow it to "get" you . . . We do have to listen when it talks . . . just don't let its metallic monologue shut out the songs of the world . . . People were once buried with coins on their eyes — and today some go through life with "coin" in their eyes, seeing nothing else . . . An honest dollar for honest work is most certainly part of the formula for self-respecting living . . . Yet the road to happiness isn't marked with $ signs . . . For while money is an essential part of life like baths and exercise and fresh air, it's still not the most important . . . The basic ingredients for happiness are found in a wife's cheerful song ... in the clear eyes of children ... in simple, gracious living . . . Money is a. useful servant like oil, gas, and electricity . . . But be careful to keep it a servant . . . don't let it become your master.
— Roscoe Poland