Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-22
GENERAL SHERMAN's DAILY LIFE
Answering Letters and Eating Din- uers Keep the old Soldier Busy Enough.

Answering Letters and Eating Din-
 ners Keep the ola Soldier Busy
 Enough.
 lclara Bells Letter to the Philadelphia Press.l
 General William Tecumseh Sherman is
 kept as busy as a belle posting his social
 journal, acknowledging books, prints, ham,
 pers of game and cordials, ard accepting as
 many of the cards of invitations the all-
 short days will permit. Every morning
 he is at breakfast by eight o'clock, looking
 as fresh and sweet as 8 new babe straight from the bath.
 There are always two or three young ladies at the table, gaests of the Misses Sherman, and the butler has 8 trick of serving the fruit, delicately Drowned omlets, sea food, rice cakes, rolls and coffee so as to squander at least an hour and 8 half of the morning for the old warrior, who dreads being alone or with his own thoughts. From the break fast table he goes to the library, seats him self in a big prune leather chair, and with a toothpick between his lips and fierce look ing miniature scimitar between his fingers, cuts his way through mass of mail of 8 character to move whole university of besux to envy.
 There are letters from all parts of the country and from all sections of the city, | and Gall from girls" as he eonfesses him. self. He has pretty habit of sending a
 rosebud or spray of mignonette to one ! l dear little letter of acknowledgement. The hotels alone keep him burdened with obli- l cations, for the invitations to lunch, dine or l see play, come from transient friends, and must be attended to at once. Then the local demands! Chesterfield himself would have 1 found it tedious to be punctual even with his | regrets But the dainty notes are read aloud to the little group who enjoy the smiles that | play about the soldiers face, often without | needing the favors that provoke them and | when the last seal is cut one of the daugh | ters piles the open letters on salver and | gives them to her father, who goes up to his l office, where the secretary awaits him. Here l the two work till luncheon time as diligently l as any merchant and stenographer in New l York, and in the afternoon, if there are nc ] companies, no receptions, no teas and nc | matinees, the general busies himself on some
 "reminiscences to be published later. 'tJust now," he says, fthe work is being shamefully neglected. But my friends inn portune me 80 that there is nothing for me | to do but go. And why shouldn't I play ! nowa Most people play first and work after wards. But worked first, and now that the afterwards has come I mean to have my 1 games."
 At the Centennial banquet lady, when l told that Sherman often attended fifteen I course dinners a week, asked how he man | aged to escape gastronomic suicide. "I do not eat at fifteen per cent. of the din. | ners I go to-" he said "I go to see the diners
 and enjoy their enjoyment, which I never could do if was foolish enough to treat my l stomach disrespectfully. You see it has
 been too staunch friend to neglect. I eat l kind of food. Then I take great pains to give hunger a show, and, while l believe l most thoroughly in the value of regular hours for meals and rest, have learned how