The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-27


questions, Mr.. Loeb generally sitting
by and waiting until the answer had
take whisky. Neither while in the
White House nor at any other time
been given and then resuming the
work.
Dictated in Washroom.
"Often Mr.. Loeb would follow me out
to the washroom and continue talking
with me and getting directions and lay
ing matters before me while 1 was
washing my hands. 1 would then go
to lunch. Immediately after lunch 1
would return to the office. 1 might
then again work with Mr.. Loeb, for
an hour or some member of the cabi-
net or other person with whom I had
to talk over details of official business.
Il never in my life, while in the
White House or anywhere else have
ever left a room, for the purpose of
getting a drink between meals, and it
would have been a physical impossibili-
ty for me to have left the room for
any such purpose at any period of my
work in the White House.
Mint Bed at White House.
1.-The only exceptions to what 1 have
stated, about drinking whisky and
brandy are as follows:
Mint juleps I very rarely drink. In
the White House we had mint bed
and should think that on the average
I may have drunk half dozen mint
JulepS d year. Sl1lce L IeIC Inc w mite
House. four years ago to the best of
my memory, 1 have drunk mint juleps
twice; on one occasion at the Country
club at St. Louis, where 1 drank part
of glass of mint julep, and on an
other 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 1 drank
when the cup was passed to me.
1.-The only other occasion on which
1 have drunk whisky has been when
it has been prescribed by the doctor.
lieve 1 have drunk whisky straight or
with water more than half a dozen
times.
African Trip Liquors.
'"On the African trip, the expedi-
ton took along a case of cham pagne,
a case of whiskey, and one bottle of
brandy. The bottle of brandy was
taken for me because 1 do not drink
whiskey. Some of the other members
of the party drank whiskey. The
champagne was used incidentally for
three members of the party who were
down with fever and dysentery and
for two or three travellers, hunters and
missionaries we met who were sick.
L never touched either the whiskey
or the champagne. Out of the brandy
bottle 1 drank exactly seven ounces,
this being given me by DR.. Mearns on
two occasions when 1 had fever.
The last time 1 told him 1 dis
liked it so that 1 did not think it did
me any good and unless he objected
L would take tea. Accordingly, L took
tea and turned the bottle and the rest
of the brandy over to Mr.. r. J. Cum
inghame, who was managing the ex-
pedition.
Eight months later, when we
reached Khartoum he asked me what
he should do with it, saying that from
curiosity he had measured it and I
had drunk seven ounces in eleven
months.
Never Touches Brandy
''As for brandy, never drink it any
more than l do whiSkey when 1 am
alone or at home or on a hunting trip
in a friends house, but on very
hard campaign trips on the advice of
Surgeon General Rixey, and recently
of DR.. Holbrook Curtis, who attends
to my throat in connection with these
campaign trips, 1 have frequently just
before going to bed at night drunk
either one or two gQblets of milk, with
a teaSpoonful of brandy to the goblet.
If there is more than the teaspoonful,
I dislike the taste and don't drink it.
Il frequently drink milk at some
meal during the day, usually at lunch.
The brandy which was used in Africa,
was never in my own possession, and
doctor. I do not even carry a flask
of brandy or whiskey with me. 1
used to carry it on my hunting trips,
but found that I used it so rarely that
it was a nuisance and might get brok-
en-, and it has been some 20 years
since 1 carried one On my ranch we
never had whiskey. 1 never made a
practice of drinking at bar, and I
don't believe I have ever drunk at
bar for 90 odd years. I do not believe
I have been inside a saloon during
that time. 1 do not drink between
meals. or except as above described.