SOBER AS A JUDGE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 December 1928, Page 9

SOBER AS A JUDGE

WHEN ADAGE RINGS FALSE

ADJUDICATING ON COCKTAILS

(United Press Association—By' Electric Telegraph

Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.)

PARIS, Dec. 3

“Sober as a. judge’’ is no longer a true phrase when judges make the acquaintance of cocktails. Such awesome names as “knoclc-me-down,” “.six-cylinder/’ “lyddite Lucy,” and “Satan’s sting” are only a few of the dozens of new concoctions served up in a fashionaable Paris hotel where 400 guests had to judge a cocktail competition organised by two Paris newspapers. It was no light ordeal, and it was not surprising as the afternoon wore on that some of the judges became hilarious and others green and pallid, while women discreetly vanished. When the last mysterious mixture, was quaffed all sense of discrimination was gone, and npbodv wa,s able to give a coherent opinion, so decision was postponed.