The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-05-27
Uses Light Wine With His Meals Occasionally But
Has Only Tasted Stronger Liquors Dozen
Times in Fifteen Years
ON WITNESS STAND IN LIBEL SUIT AT MARQUETTE
FORMER PRESIDENT TESTIFES AS TO SOBRETY

after short trip through Europe re
turned To the T.. s"
Il never drank a cocktail or a high-
BAH in my life.
with the exceptions hereafter
noted, have never drank whiskcy Or
brandy except under advice of physl-
clan. don't care for the taste %
either. don't smoke aud don't drinl;
beer, because | dislike smoking aud
'lialick the taste of beer
II never nave drunk whiskcy or
brandy except when a doctor pre- =
Sertbed it or on possibly some occa-
sion after great exposure. when | have
been chilled through
Not An Abstslner.
But it has been from Gtteen to
twenty wears since ! drank it. because
of being chilled through. never
have drunk beer nor do | drink red
wine. The only wines have drunk
have been white wines. Madeira.
champagne, or very occasionally
glasses of sherry At home ! often al
dinner drink wine. a glass or two Of
Madeira. I'm the summer instead -.
Madeira, | drink q tail glass or white
vine anu Poland water or polly" wa
ter
AT public dinners, sometimes ]
drink a glass OF champagne. pcrhaps
TWO | thin'l on the average this
means I drink champagne once Il
month
''rhc auly exceptions to what | have
stated about drinking whisIlcy and
brandy are ag follows mint julips, I
rarely drink.
AT the White House, We had a
mint bed and | ,hink ou the average,
| may have drunk half dozen mint
iulrrs "a year.
Since ! left the White House, four
years ago, To the best Of my mem
crv, have drunk mint iulcps twice;
once at the Country club in St Louis
where drank part of - glass OF mint
iulep aEd the other occasion q big lun-
chcon at Little Rock. Ark, where they
passed around the table a loving cup,
with mint iulep in it. | drank when
;he cup was passed to me
Whisky Hall Dozen Times.
THE only other occasion on which
have drunk whisky has been when
IL was prescribed by . doctor During
The last fourteen wears do not believe
have drunk whisky straight or with
water more than half - dozen times,
"On the African expedition we took
alcug ease of champagne = ease OF
whisky aud bottle of brandy The
brandy Was taken for me. because !
do not drink whisky. Some others of
the part, drank whisky. The cham
Iagne was used incidentally for three
members of the party who were down
with he foyer and dyscntcry and for
two or three travellers. hunters and
missionaries we met who were sick.
II never touched either the whisky
cr the champagne.
"Out If the brandy bottle. dranb
seven ounces given me by Dr, Leans
ON two occasions Whom had fever
The last time I told him disliked u
and So did not think II would do me
any GOOD and unless he objected, J
would take tea.
"Accordingly took tea aud turned
tic bottle over to Mr. Cunningham,
who was managing the expeditions
Eight months later. when We reached
Ebartoum he asked me what he should
do with Il. saving that out Of curious
H., ho had measured II and found that
/ had drunk seven ounces in eleven
months.
Brandy for His Throat.
AS for brandy. I never drink any
moro than do whisky, when alone AZ
Lome. or oa hunting trip, or In a
Friends house But ON very hard
c,mpaign trips the advice of Surgeon
General Rixev aud recently DR. Hol-
brook Curtis. who attends my throat
=, connection with these campaign
rIps. frequently. Just before going
to bed at night. drink one or two
oohlets of milk with a teaspoonful OF
brandy 20 the goblet
II frequently drink milk at some
noal during the day. usually at lunch
con.
"The brandy which was used III Atri-
., w,, never i'm my possession. do
not ,ven rorrv q flask of whisky or
brandy with me. used to carry II OH
buntine trips, but found that | used 1t
so rarely that It was nuisance ana
might get broken. II is some twenty
,oars since I carried one
- have never made a practice of
drinking at bar ana 90 no' pe'ieNe
7 have drunk at bar in twenty years