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GRANT AT THE MESS TABLE.
He Ate Very Little Meat. but Was Fond
of Fruit and Vegetables.


He Ate Very Little Meat. but Was Fond
of Fruit and Vegetables.
i General Horace Porter gives
many Intimate and familiar pictures
of General Grant In his series of ar.
ticles, Campaigning With Grant, z
in the Century. He says of General
Grant at the mess table:
About the only meat he enjoyed
was beef, and this he could not eat
unless it was SO thoroughly well
done that no appearance of blood
could be seen. If blood appeared in
any meat which came on the table,
the sight of it seemed entirely to
destroy his appetite (This was the
man whose enemies delighted in
calling him butcher.) He enjoyed
oysters and fruit, but these could
not be procured on an active cam
paign. He never ate mutton when
he could obtain anything else, and
fowl and game he abhorred. AS he
used to express it, IT never could
eat anything that goes on two legs. I"
Evidently he could never have been
converted to cannibalism. He did
not miss much by declining to eat
the chickens which were picked up
on campaign, for they were usual
~ tough enough to create the sus-
picion that they had been Matched
from hard boiled eggs, and were SO
impenetrable that an officer said of
one of them that he could not even
stick his fork through the gravy.
The general was fonder of cucum-
bers than of anything else and often
made his entire meal upon a sliced
cucumber and a cup of coffee. He
always enjoyed corn, pork and
beans and buckwheat cakes. In fact,
he seemed to be particularly fond Of
only the most indigestible dishes.
When any fruit could be procured,
it was placed on the table by way
of helping to ornament it and after
ward used as dessert. Between the
courses of the dinner the general
would often reach over to the dish
of fruit, and pick out a berry or
cherry and eat it slowly, He used
to do this in a sly way, like child
helping itself to some forbidden
dish at the table and afraid of being
caught in tie act. lie said one day
II suppose [ ought not to eat
course out of its turn, but I take the
greatest delight in picking out bits
of fruit and eating them during a
meal One of the reasons / do not
enjoy dining out as much as I do at
home is because | am compelled to
sit through a long list of courses,
few of which I eat, and to resist the
constant temptation to taste a little
fruit in the meanwhile to help pass
away the time. Napoleon was ia
nous for eating out of the various
dishes before him with his fingers.
General Grants use of the fingers
never went beyond picking out
small fruits. He was always refined
in his manners at table, and no mat
ter how great was the hurry or
what were the circumstances of the
occasion he never violated the re-
quirements of true politeness.
He ate less than any man in the
army. Sometimes the amount of
food taken did not seem enough to
keep bird alive, and his meals
were frugal enough to satisfy the
tastes of the most avowed anchor
ite. It SO happened that no one in
the mess had any inclination to
drink wine or spirits at meals, and
none was carried among the mess
supplies. The only beverage ever
used at table besides tea and coffee
was water, although on the march
twas often taken from places which
rendered it not the most palatable
or healthfIl of drinks. If "a staff Off
GER wanted anything stronger, he
would carry some commissary whis-
Ky in a canteen. Upon few occa-
sions, after hard days ride III
stormy weather, the general joined
the officers of the staff in taking a
whisky to6dy in the evening. He
never offered liquor of any kind to
visitors at headquarters. His hos
pitality consisted in inviting them
to meals and to smoke cigars.
When a person begins to grow thin
here is something wrong. The waste