PLEASING TO THE EYE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1151, 2 May 1912, Page 22

PLEASING TO THE EYE.

“We have to please the eye as well as the palate,” was the evidence given to the Food Standards Commission by a man who manufactured things to drink. To which everybody says “Hear, hear.” Take a few of the simple innocuous beverages with which we are all familial. There is one which is a rich brown, pouring itself joyously into, the glass with a light' and airy froth on the top. It is a glad sight to every weary labourer at 5 p.m. on a hot day, refreshing his artistic senses as nothing else could refresh them. Again, let mention be made of a liquid so beautiful that it inspired the poetical condemnation of the most experienceo bon-vivant in Scripture. A liquid which is red, which giveth its colour in the cup, and moveth itself aright. Even raspberry vinegar Oould nob be . more prettily described. Add to these a fluid which is pale amber or light tawny; no deeper in Colour or tint than a single hair from a fair girl’s head; which, as it froths into the glass, subsides with the most musical sizzle in th.e world, and leaves “beaded bubbles winking at the brim.” There are others. There is one of light brown, growing less and less pronounced in colour as the soda-water is added; but may Bacchus excommunicate for ever the

man who reduces it to too colourless a transparency! Truly these things appeal subtly to the eye, and awaken the highest artistic instincts in us all. —‘ Sydney Sun.”