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Messrs. Cox & Stevens, is for Mr. Roswell E!- 
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tion. 
‘Yachts’ Names. 
NAMING a boat is like measles. It comes some 
time to every one of us. Some have it in a mild 
form, and are able to attend to the ordinary and 
less important affairs of life. With others it is 
a struggle that leaves them enervated for months, 
if indeed it does not weaken their constitutions 
forever. Seeing the struggles of my friends I 
have debated on the propriety of opening a little 
shop for the sale of genuine hand-made yachts’ 
names, mail orders to receive special attention. 
It might not succeed. I ask myself whether it 
is possible to have the measles for another per- 
son. Perhaps not, but I would rather than to 
see a friend suffer as one of them did some years 
ago. He had acquired a little combination row 
and sailboat, and in its highly varnished state no 
name seemed adequate. His wife, a lady of liter- 
ary proclivities, came down with the disease at 
the same time. ‘Their condition was _ pitiable. 
Friends who were immune tried in vain to alle- 
viate their woes. The worst phase of the disease 
was experienced when they tried to use the dic- 
tionary as a pharmacopeeia. The result was the 
choice of Sprite. It left a scar that remains to 
this day. And when Ariel would have spelled 
complete relief. Too bad. 
More recently I watched the progress of the 
disease in its very worst form. The craft was so 
beloved—as every good craft should be—that no 
name would suffice. Or, perhaps, the owner was 
secretly deferring a choice until circumstances 
should permit the use of a young lady’s name. 
This is an equally severe form, according to ex- 
pert diagnosticians. He was threatened that the 
yacht would be named by others if not by him- 
self. In this age it is too wasteful of time to say 
repeatedly “Johnson’s boat” or “Smith’s sloop.” 
His punishment for indecision came when, in an 
evil moment, this yacht was dubbed Lydia Pink- 
ham, and to-day it is a question whether she will 
ever escape the enduring odor of the vegetable 
compound. 
Naming a boat is not to be done perforce. One 
must be in a receptive mood and wait for the 
breath of inspiration. An instance of this oc- 
curred when .I assisted in the adoption of the 
name Royal Flush. It has the great disadvantage 
of brimming with braggadocio. That would ordi- 
narily be sufficient condemnation, but in this in- 
stance there were five builders and owners, and 
the boat was small enough to bear her name in 
a spirit of levity. I suggested Flush, and a chum 
added the prefix. It is free from the objection of 
being too long, because the last word alone is 
used commonly. The name survives on the tran- 
som of a successor, and legitimately, because she 
was not laid down until the first Flush had gone 
to the marine catacombs. It is only in such cases 
that it is allowable to use a name twice. In this 
case there was the further excuse of keeping 
alive the memory of a quite remarkable little 
craft, around which cluster a world of pleasant 
associations. 
It is not hard to name a boat that is so small 
as to make no claims to dignity, say under 25ft. 
waterline, or above it in the case of open boats. 
These craft are more or less ephemeral, and will 
stand for names that one would not care to 
breathe for half a generation. The lists are al- 
ready full. but the supply of good names seems 
inexhaustible. I do not know that Peewee has 
ever been used. Probably Pickaninny has been. 
Tonic would do for a doctor’s little racer, or 
Item for a newspaper man’s. Fiddle or Banjo 
might suit some owners. Nugget would be bet- 
ter than Cameo, or some of the other names sug- 
gested by precious stones. Then there’s Blarney, 
a brand new one. I think, and it suggests Shindy, 
Fracas and the like. 
Gimerack was a hit in her day. Why not now 
Thingumbob, Trinket or Knickknack, or Bauble, 
or Gewgaw, or Gilguy? 

What a Famous Editor Says’ 
About Club Cocktails 
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I sometimes drink a cocktail; in fact, I like a cocktail 
when toward evening the fatigues of the day begin to 
tell on me. Some people like a cocktail as an appetizer, 
but. everybody who likes a cocktail likes a good one. 
For a good while I have kept in my house, whether in 
the country or in town, the Heublein Club Cocktails in 
bottles, more for convenience than anything else. I knew 
they were good and I liked them, but just why they 
were so good did not occur to me until some one, speak- 
ing of the vast quantities of these that the Messrs. Heu- 
blein must make in a “‘batch,’’ led me to this sort of 
reasoning. Barkeepers, and even one’s self, in mixing 

cocktails, necessarily cannot have a uniform and exact | 
quantity of ingredients in each one. A few drops more 
or less of either ingredient greatly changes the nature of 
the product. In a great laboratory where quantities like 
the Club Cocktails are made at a mixing, each article is 
accurately weighed or measured, and the compound is 
following an exact formula. This insures that each and 
every cocktail or bottle of cocktails put up shall be pre- 
cisely correct in its composition. Again, recalling the 
fact that age is necessary to the proper blending of all 
liquors, it occurred to me that these bottled cocktails, by 
the time they are used by the consumer may have already 
been months or even years in bottle, hence that the blend- 
ing must be perfect. Reasoning thus, I feel constrained 
to tell my readers about it, as I know that a goodly 
number of them enjoy a perfect cocktail. I have found 
the several brands prepared by the Heublein Brothers, 
Manhattan, Martini, Whiskey, Gin, Vermouth and York, 
all excellent. 
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