And so, on election day, here is some useful advice.
Excerpted from Christopher Morley’s A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure
NOVEMBER 4, WEDNESDAY 1931
Everybody knows that hot rum and water is sovereign for a cold, but perhaps everybody does not know exactly how the remedy should be applied. You must take it in bed; premature consumption merely wastes the good creature. It should be made as hot as you can drink it, not too sweet, but so strong that you sink back at once on the pillow, resigning the glass to the ready hands of a sympathizing bedside attendant, preferably feminine.
— GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Notes on a Cellar Book
Hahaha! What a wonderful idea!
A Book of Days for 1931 (Christopher Morley)
Christopher Morley was a journalist and essayist who is probably mainly known for his passion for Sherlock Holmes, but it was a long and fruitful career (speaking of Ginger Rogers, he wrote Kitty Foyle, which gave her an Academy Award)….