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San Francisco Bulletin, Feb. 7, 1885
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As I read Mme Patti's interview, I 'hear' Eva Gabor's voice.Ah. So politicians kissing babies was a left over from this custom? Wonder when it changed?
Love the opera singer although you'd have wished she'd have stepped on his foot kinda hard.
Mildred Hazen, wife of the General Hazen, wrote the following about Sherman's kissing proclivities.
‘‘Sherman was most interesting as a house companion but presumed terribly upon his rank with army people. A mixture of brusquerie and cunning, he always made believe he was absent-minded. And if a woman was young he made a habit of kissing her in an off-hand way every time he met her. I stood it when he arrived pretty fairly though reluctantly. But when the next morning he prepared to go through the same performance, I pulled back.
I've posted more on her impression of Sherman on another thread.
Oh dear...That's hilarious about Sheridan! He has quite a reputation out here during the Oregon Indian wars - he wasn't red-faced about kissing his Indian girlfriends. In fact, some time after the CW and he was very famous, he invited his favorite to come visit him in Washington. No word on what Mrs Sheridan had to say about that!