Phantom Cocktails

Liquor and even cigarets are still questionable commodities to the Saturday Evening Post. Rarely does Editor George Horace Lorimer permit an illustration of a woman smoking, practically never of a man or woman drinking. Last week's Satevepost was an exception. One article had pictures of a man beaming over a champagne goblet, a girl toying with an aperitif; but the text pointed a moral. Entitled "I Fell Off the Water Wagon," it was the testimonial of a middle-aged man who reached the final conclusion that drink is a curse. Apparently that was enough alcohol in one issue for Editor Lorimer. On Page 7 illustrating another story appeared a picture of a group of men & women gathered for cocktails before dinner. Their hands, awkwardly poised, were empty. Close inspection revealed the faint outlines of cocktail glasses all but obliterated by a retouch artist's brush.

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