Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1913 — Cecil Rhodes a Good Feeder. [ARTICLE]

Cecil Rhodes a Good Feeder.

Cecil Rhodes’ latest biographer saya that Rhodes was a valiant trencherman —“one might almost call him a gross feeder” —and liked getting the joint in front of him and cutting off great hunks of meat. Though "no drunkard,” he also liked his champagne in a tumbler, tossed off the glass absent-mindedly and would have five or six liqueur glasses of bis favorite Russian kuemm.el after meals. At eleven in the morning he usually, “like Bismarck,” had a flagon ot champagne and stout, or light, Pilsener beer, then Pilsener or bock for lunch, and, wltb the exception of • gin and soda sometimes at sundown, .nothing until dinner. After dinner he often sat at the dining room tablo talking and smoking Innumerable cigarettes until bedtime.