Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-28

ton. He lowered over the president like an anxious mother over her in fant: he visited him every morning l and crept up on him in the dark and at all kinds of unexpected hours to see that the chief executive of the nation was not taking chances with his health. He watched what the presi- dent ate and what he drank and gen. eralIy supervised his diet He gave the plaintiff a clean bill of health. Tn the seven and a half years I was at the White House with Colonel ROOse- welt, he could not have gotten drunk without my knowing it.
 "Mr. Roosevelt a Gentleman"
 GiIson Gardiner said that he had attended many public functions at which Colonel Roosevelt had been the principal guest and had never seen
 him under the influence of Hquor%in the slightest degree.
 MT. Riis, asked if the former pres 1 ident had ever been under the in
 fuence of liquor in his presence, the sociologist replied with gusto "Oh, | Lord. mo-
 Asked if MT. Roosevelt used coarse or profane language the witness, a close friend of the former president,
 replied sharply: MT. Roosevelt is a gentleman"
 There was some discussion as to
 whether it was necessary to prove the ! in the end the court ruled that it
 might be taken for granted Robert Bacon. James R. Garfield and Clifford Pinchot probably will testify | tomorrow, among others.
 Col. Roosevelt testified substantially as follows:
 About His Drinking.
 T have never drunk a cocktail nor l a highball in my life with the eXcep- ! J,,~,,, l. whisky or brandy except under the ad- vice of a physician. I don't care for the taste of either. l don't smoke and I don't drink beer because I dislike smoking and dislike the taste of beer. q never have drunk whisky or
 brandy except when the doctor pre- scribed it. or possibly on some occa- sion after great exposure when 1 was chilled through. But it has been cer- tainly fifteen or twenty years since have drunk it because of being chilled through. l never have drunk beer nor do ! drink red wine. The only wines that I have drunk have been white wines. Madeira. cha 4pagne or very occasionally a glass of sherry.
 Madeira and Champagne.
 At home I often at dinner will drink wineglass or two of Madeira In summer instead of the Madeira, I will often drink a tall glass of champagne OI pCl hcliJS IWO IfI4IltN OA IIl0 cN Sl age this means that l will drink cham pagne about once q month.
 White House Mint Bed
 ''The only exceptions to what I have stated about drinking whisky and brandy are as follows: Mint julep I very rarely drink. At the White House we had a mint bed and I should think that on the average 1 may have drunk half a dozen mint juleps year. Since ' 1nft hn hi ffn ago to the best of my memory I have drunk mint juleps twice. on one occa- sion at the Country club at St. Louis where I drank part of a glass of mint julep, and on another occasion at a big luncheon given me at Little Rock Ark where they passed around the table loving cup with the mint julep in it and I drank when the cup was passed to me.
 When He Has Drunk Whisky.
 "The only other occasions when I have drunk whisky have been when it has been prescribed by the doctor.
 During the last fourteen years l do not believe I have drunk whisky straight or with water more than half dozen times. On the African trip the expedition took along a case of champagne a case of whisky, and one bottle of brandy. The bottle of brandy was taken for me because I don't drink NhlohS' ioOIlIS O1 tue OlIl6I IleI1DeIS of the party drank whisky. The cham pagne was used incidentally for three members of the party who were down with fever and dysentery, and for two or three travellers, hunters and mis- sionaries we met who were sick. never touched either the whisky or | the champagne
 Seven Ounces of Brandy. Out of the brandy bottle I drank oS-D nt tIx- |, me by Dr. Mearns on two occasions when l had fever The last time I told him I dislil1ed it so that I did not think it did me any good, and un- 1 less he objected l would take tea Ac- cOrdingly l took tea and turned the bottle and the rest of the brandy over l to Mir. R. J. Cunningham, who was managing the expedition. Eight months ] later when we reached Khartoum he asked me what he should do with it, i saying that from curiosity he had
 measured it and that I had drunk just | seven ounces in eleven months "As for brandy I never drink it any more than I do whisky when I am alone or at home or on a hunting trip or in 3 friends house. But on very hard trips, on the advice of Surgeon General Rixey, and the advice of Dr. 1 Holbrook Curtis, who attends to my i throat in connection with these cam 1 paign trips, I have frequently just be- ! lore gong to pea at night, drunk either one or two goblets of milk with a | teaspoonfu1 of brandy to the goblet. If there is more than the teaspoonfuI I dislike the taste and don't drink it. I frequently drink milk at some meal during the day, usually at lunch 'The brandy which was used In Africa was never in my own posses sion and I only took 1t when given to me by the doctor.
 Doesn't Carry Bottle. "T do not even carry a flask of brandy or whisky with inc I used to carry IL on my hunting trips. but found tlfat l used it eo rarely that it was a nuisance and might get broken and it has been some twenty years since l carried enc on my ranch We never had whisky: I never made a practice of drinking at bar, and I don't believe that I have ever drunk at bar for twenty odd years, I de not believe l have been inside a sa- loon during that time. l do not drink between meals, or except above des- crihed. On campaign trips I drink