Daily Dose

From Newspaper Days, by H. L. Mencken

THIS BILL-OF-FARE

"This bill-of-fare, with all the drinks save the cocktails included, cost $10 a plate in any good Baltimore hotel.  In that age of low living costs it was a high price, and the persons who paid it tried to get their money's worth by guzzling all the champagne they could hold.  As a young reporter I covered many such dinners, and saw some drinking bouts of very huge amperage."

From Chapter XII, The Judicial Arm