Evening journal., 1913-05-27
ROOSEVELT
NEVER DRANK
A COCKTAIL
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drink beer because | dislike smoking
and dislike the taste Of beer never
have drunk whiskey or brandy excep
when the doctor prescribed Il or pos
sobly on some occasion after great
exposure. when ! was chilled through
But It has been certainty fifteen or
twenty years since ! have drunk it
because Of being chilled through.
have never drunk beer nor do
drink red wine. The only wines that
7 have drunk have been either white
wines. Madeira, champagne or very
occasionally n glass Of sherry. Al
home / often at dinner will drink a
wineglass or two OF Madeira. In
summer, instead Of the Madeira, will
often drink a tall glass Of white wine
and Poland water. or Polo water. At
public dinners l sometimes drink a
glass OF champagne or perhaps two.
I think that on the average this
means that 7 will drink champagne
about once a month.
The only exceptions 10 what have
stated about drinking whiskey and
brandy are as follows:
Mint juleps / worry rarely drink.
IN the White House we had a mint
bed and l should think that on the
average may have drunk half a
dozen mint juleps year. Since
left the White House. four years ago,
20 the best Of my memory. have
drunk mint iuleps twice one occa-
sion at the Country Club at st. Louis,
whore drank part of a glass OF mint
tulep, and another occasion at q big
lunch given me at Little Rock, Ark,
where they passed around the table a
loving cup with the mint julep In Il
and drank when the cup was passed
TO me. The only other occasion on
whfch have drunk whiskey have
been when Il has been prescribed by
che doctors. During the last fourteen
years ] do not believe l have drunk
whishey straight or with water, more
than half dozen times. On the Afri-
can trip the expedition took along a
<ssss OF champagne, q case OF whiskey
and a bottle OF brandy. The bottle
OF brandy was taken for me. because
u do not drink whiskey.
Some OF the other members OF the
Uarty drank whiskey. The champagne
was used occasionally for three mem
bers OF the party who we're down
with fever and dysentery and for two
or three travlers, hunters and mis-
sionaries we met who we're sick.
never touched either the whiskey OF
the champagne. Out OF tho brandy
bottle I drank exactly seven ounces
this being given me by DR.. Mearns
on two occasions when | had fever
The last time I told him | disliket
II so I did not think It did me ans
good and unless he objected, l woulC
take tea. / accordingly took tea, anC
turned the bottle and the brandy Ovel
to r. J. Cunningham. who was man
aging the expedition. Eight month";
later when we reached Khartoum, hl
asked me what he should do with Il
saying that from curiosity he hat
measured IL and that had drunl
Just seven ounces I'm eleven months
"As for brandy. / never drink
any more than I do whiskey when
am alone or on a hunting trip or IN
"A friends house But on very hare
campaign trips. on the advice of Sur
geon Gen Rixey and recently Of DR.
Holbrook, who attends to my throat
in connection with these campaign
trips, ! have frequently, before coins
10 bed at night drunk either one ol
two goblets of milk with teaspoon
ful of brandy to the goblet II ther,
is more than a teaspoonful | dislik,
the taste and don't drink II. / fire.
quently drink milk at home at som'
meal during the day, usually at lunch
The brandy which / used in Africs
was never I'm my possession, and
only took Il when given to me by th'
doctor. ! do not even carry a fash
OF brandy OF whiskey with me.
used TO carry Il on my hunting trip,
but found that ] used II so rarell
that Il was a nuisance and might ge
broken, and Il has been some twenty
years since ] carried one. On m,
\ ranch we never had whiskey ] never
made a practice OF drinking at th'
bar. and ] don't believe that hav'
drunk az a bar for twenty odd years
Il do not believe ] have been In
rfS1 naI,,r, Ia, fh,t