WHY WE LIKE COCKTAILS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 547, 27 December 1928, Page 7

WHY WE LIKE COCKTAILS

WOMEN FASCINATED BY “RITUAL” Are women responsible for the cocktail habit? * In the opinion of many of the leading silversmiths, they are, but not because they have a special passion for the actual cocktail. Cocktail drinking is such a decorative ritual these days that it has a great fascination for women. They cannot resist the lure, of novel glasses and shakers, cherry sticks and cherry containers. and the special little cutters for lemon rind. “It is always women who come in to buy cocktail sets,” one silversmith told the London “Daily Mirror.” “I think if it depended on the men the cocktail habit would soon die out. But women love the dainty equipment and paraphernalia of cocktail making. “For instance, men would have gone on for ever content to use the little wooden/ sticks for cocktail cherries. But women demand something daintier and more lasting. So the little silver sticks were introduced, and women immediately fell in love with them. Cocktail glasses are made in all shades to match the hostess’s drawing-room colour scheme. “The new cocktail cherry sticks are certainly fascinating affairs. Some of them have little enamel or silver cockerels perched on top. The newest design of all is in the form of a set of miniature golf clubs in a little silver golf-bag mounted on legs to stand on the silver tray. “Some of the designs on the new cocktail glasses may be considered more gruesome than amusing. One set of glasses depicted a cockfight, each glass showing a different stage of the fight, the last scene being where the victorious cock is dragging away the vanquished by its neck.”