1 barspoon sugar

½ lemon —juice only

1 jigger rye whiskey

Mix in a barglass. Fill with cracked ice. Clap on the shaker and shake vigorously before straining into cocktail glass.

This is the drink a Frenchman had in mind when he walked into a New Orleans cocktail lounge and said to the man behind the bar:

"Mix for me, s'il vous plait, a contradictions." "A which?" demanded the puzzled barkeep. "Zee great American drink—a contradictions." "Never heard of it, mister . . . how's it made?"

"You use whiskee to make eet strong; water to make eet weak; lemon juice to make eet sour, an' sugar to make eet sweet," explained the French visi­tor. "Zen you say: 'Here to you,' an' you drink eet yourself! Zat, sar, ees zee contradictions."

Whereupon the barkeep mixed the drink—which you will have no difficulty in recognizing as the old reliable, time-tested Whiskey Sour.