Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
SHERMAN'S DAILY LIFE.
Answering Letters and Eating Dinners
Keep the Old Soldier Busy.

Answering Letters and Eating Dinners
Keep the Old Soldier Busy.
General William Tecumseh Sherman
is kept as busy as belle posting his
social journal, acknowledging books,
prints. hampers of game and cordials,
and accepting as many of the cards
OF invitations as the all-too-
short days will permit Every morn
ing he is at breakfast by eight o clock,
looking as fresh and sweet as new
babe straight from the bath.
There are always two or three young
ladies at the table, guests of the Misses
Sherman, and the butler has trick OF
serving the fruit. delicately Drowned
omeIets, sea food, rice cakes, rolls and
coffee so as to squander at least an hour
and a half of the morning for the old
warrior, who breads being alone or
with his own thoughts From the
breakfast table he goes to the library.
seats himself in a big prune-leather
chair and with a toothpick between his
lips and fierce-looking miniature
scimitar between his fingers, cuts his
way through a mass of mail of char
acter to move a whole university OF
beaux to envy.
There are letters from all parts OF
the country and from all sections OF
the city, and ''all from girls" as he
confesses himself He has a pretty
habit of sending rosebud or spray
of mignonette to one lady by another.
and in return is repaid by dear little
letter of acknowledgement The hotels
alone keep him burdened with obliga-
tons, for the invitations to lunch, dine
or see a play come from transient
friends, and must be attended to at
once. Then the local demands! Ches-
terfield himself would have found it
tedious to be punctual even with his re-
grets- But the dainty notes are read
aloud to the little group who enjoy the
smiles that play about the soldier
face, often without needing the favors
that provoke them, and when the last
seal is cut one of the daughters piles
gives them to her father, who goes up
to his Office, where the secretary awaits
him. Here the two work till luncheon
time as diligently as any merchant and
stenographer in New York, and in the
afternoon. if there are no companies,
no receptions, no teas and no matinees.
the General busies himself on some
"reminiscences to be published later.
Just now," he says, 1.-The work is
being shamefully neglected. But my
friends importune me so that there is
nothing to do but go. And why
shouldn't l play now? Most people
play first and work afterward. But /
worked first, and now that the after
wards has come l mean to have my
games"
At the Centennial banquet a lady,
when told that Sherman often attended
fifteen course dinners week, asked
how he managed to escape gastronomic
suicide.
ii do not eat at ID per cent OF the
dinners go to-" he said. go see the
diners and enjoy their enjoyment,
which l never could 10 if was foolish
enough 20 treat my stomach disrespect-
fully. You see, it has been too stanch a
friend to neglect eat to live, and am
satisfied with the simplest kind of food.
Then l take great pains to give hunger
show, and. while believe most thor
Oughly in the value of regular hours for
meals and rest. have learned how to
go through a dining-room without eat
ing a morsel. without being detected
and without hurting the taste of the
hostess IN. Y. Letter.