HEW COFFEE CRAZE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2007, 14 March 1914, Page 8

HEW COFFEE CRAZE.

• i = i--. ■ .:P • ;,/ Ti&re ar« maftj- signs 'and : portents just now to WwaijC: ;t)l»t the , British witi thefcad, isbectfmuig- uwte- altd jnQ%«i ; teruperato.ill most'' tilings (omitting. . terpsieh.oreau revelty -and tlio clilcflia. fev-er). Most encouraging of all (remarks the' "Daily News") is tto fact tliat strong drink is losing its grip on tlio town antl that Ci-iiblaM-d'.is taking tlae lead, in a rtfresh;!mg campaign of barley \tater and gingerbcor irabihatioii. More in sorrow t-ljaii m aftger the hotels arc foltejng Emit", iuul Master Macnamara, a popular and entertaining M"astcr. -of t&e..Supreino Court, has -clwerod tho tnenibers ef theKoyaT .Courts of Justice and' Legal Tempflraneo Society - ky describing to fchcnV'tto new tidat wavo of.ieototalisni which lias engu.lph«l his <nvu ehjb-'-a mil. caravanserai with a stirring history iv&teli goes back to Aβ "glorioits" old tirto-battlo'jjays. There js, bo nioro .barley water and. raijiwal tv-ator drunk there than aleoliol, and the s-ani© jna : y be said of several otter clubs. "In'-faot," said tho secretary of a. very fatuous ijrid , exclusive Bohemian. Chib to a. ."Daily News" representative recently, "the".ciiange in the liaßits) -tho appetite, and tho- thirst of the preseilt-day filttb ruajß is jjiteordiuary cainiiated with tho ewttli-ticin of a&tifs fiw oi' tea years ago. ijibjf, 1-think, it, and to-day the fj«sh, air atiid eserciie'.eult. is all-nervad-ing. : ..,tn our own oldb' we have tflioft up th.e.'Ka'Hey water ojasie with cntliusiasm, afl4- tliffugli— by ■ feasoHj niahily, of I w«aii)ei'' : innu(3nc€s-'-iii is the closp- sea-Son '[Ear t&ftt'Threshing beverage just now, •theriS is. a cont-inuuf run : on tenipera-iice idfiiSs- pur west popular morning (Iri-nlt is a- pto ■ glass of coffee ■made with 'hot milt. with, just <i clash of svhi:ppefl cream m' it and- a nip o£ lipewa '•■ sugar for flavouring. It '}s ."■'-• so ■'■" named . beoauso it is the iiivention' of a, - member., whoso baijio isM'HaTdy- 1 -a fjmet, ratiriiig littie Seots-nian, wfo) h-tts suddenly leapt into fam6._b£_€ie popularity of Ijis warmiag %\xi junocuou-s 'ptftw. ■ Between -eleven and -lunch time practically everybody who ebmes into thoduJj-has % Jlaca-rdy instead of-the old-insidious gin and vermouth wiiieh ti-sfsd-to bo tliis stande-rd ntornittg tipple ■'■here.:- And lani told that ovea at tlio Athenaeum glasses of Maeatd.v are β-n tap in the early hours, though 'it is kti<3?v-n by a differeitt name, very scientific jsrofoand, .and eharged for accordingly!" Another encouraging sign, ef the times in clubland is the extent tojv'hich the t'ashjon of 'afternoon tea has 'grown. Ito oacrtime gonofal whisky and soda atfour p,m. or thoreabouTiS k now prrictically. a- vice of the pa'gfc China tea, delieatsly brewed, toast, cakes, and stveets aro now the tliuig, and eveft the afternoatt bridge cntlsusia'sts have fallen ■ willing victims to "t-he't.mtijniiabula-tiou of the spoon," Of floursp certjiwi old fogies. groivi at this exhiteratiiig inarch of progress. ~ . \ . "Barley-water, ginger-popj teay aM erujnpftis-,.u-i;hl" said one of theni tho other , day. "AVe shall behaving waitresses in the clitb i'Kifc Charles, bring die a small'bottle of '7S, and gee tliat\ thechiHis.tAfeiQfJ" , ', -'