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Show MWI. GRANTS BOOK. She Is Writing; a lllatnry of liar Remarkable Re-markable Family. New York. April 23 fJossip has traduced Mrs, Grant. lustcad of being Inlirm sho Is iu her second girlhood, enjoying en-joying cxhulicrant health and perfect contentment. Sho came tripping down the staircase of her city home today w ith a step light and sure. Tho News reporter told her he expected to see her I in an Invalid chair, and sho laughingly remarked: Most straugrrs do. I am 84 years old, but I have never been better in my life. Good health was tho legacy of my family. My mother completed three score years and my father lived to be 87. I cannot tell you why I am so well, because I am nothing of a dietarian. I am constantly being scolded for my imprudence. I almost live ou fruits. I have oranges within reach of my bed, to eat through the night." ' How did you enjoy your visit to Austria!" "Very well. I was only in Vienna a short while. Most of the time I spent traveling through Germany end Austrian Aus-trian states. We went to Beyreuth to hearParifal, to Wurtembcr. Dresden, Ischel, Corlslmd and other places." I Inquiry was made about the remlnls-co remlnls-co uccs Mrs. Grats preparing and about which she . Jverv reluctant to talk. '"I have been working on a Ixmk for some time, hut it is purely a family volume vol-ume that I waut for the children. I had no Idea of publishing It. I wanted to leave It to my family as a sort of history, and If they cared to publish It they could do so. Our homo life has been so broken that I felt that tho children know but little about It except what they learn from print. It was to enlighten en-lighten then, correct some error and add new material that I begun this work. My people worn born In Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania ami made the Journey to tiie Missouri when that section of the territory was known as "The American Wilderness." They went down the Ohio on Hal bmiU.ofhe trip from Shaw neetown to St. Louis was made by carriage. My father had a pretty place, I lived In sunny Missouri when my brother went to the West point, and when ho brought Lieutenant Grant homo to spend tho holidays. We had many family parties In those days, about which my sons are fully Ignorant. In those days 1 was Jealously guarded and never moved ten feet from tho house without my brother or servant. One summer day we wrro going to a morning wedding, and Lieutenant Graut was also Invited. The day was beautiful, the loads were a Utile heavy from a previous rain, but the sun shono In splendor.. We had to cross a little bridge that spanned the ravine, and Iwheu we reached it, I was surprised and concerned to find the gulch swollen. It was a most unusual thing, the water reaching to tho bridge. I noticed, too, that Lieutenant Grant wa very quiet. I asked several times if bu thought It dangerous to cross, II" assured nie Iu bis own brief way that It was perfectly safe, but Just as we reached tho old bridge I said, 'now If anything happens I shall cling to you, no mailer what you say to tho contrary.' He said all right, aiid we wrro over tho planks In les than a minute. Then his mood changed, he became more social, anil Iu asking me to be his wife used mv threat. Then we were very quiet, and at the house that evening never said a word of our secret. After supper be went back to his regiment, and a few day later General Gen-eral Taylor sent him to luisiaua. I in was too shy to ask father, so he waited till he was stationed and wrote to him. Father never answered the letter. I was a favorite daughter and ho thought army lifu would not suit mo. The next year be came back on leave pf absence, asked for my hand and my father said yes, My soldier lover Was in and about Mexico for four years. Including In-cluding tho war. Every mail brought me a letter. Every one full of sweet nothings, love and war, and now and then some pressed leaves and flowers, homo were written on drumheads captured from the Mexicans. 1 read each one every duy until the next one came, and then I laid It away In a little lox. I have them all. " At the close of the Mexican war wo were married. I went off to the army with him. For a while we were at Detroit, and in went to California, and a few dav lat-r Fred wa born. During tho rebellion I wa always a near the general as It was safe to be. Whenever Tie was In camp the shift officer came for u. as b said our family life was a series of Interruptions and it Is to cement it that I am wnlinij the bonk. And then the public life; I wish I could reproduce the one bun dredth part of tho bright companies we had together, but my memory is treacherous that I have begun with my mother and father and tiuished with the while house, telling many truJhs that I should not care to see in print. For Instance we were very happy n the old mansion, for It wa the only place that we had all been together for any length of time. I remember how I cried and how the General btiighfd when the cars rolled out of the V aslnn-ton aslnn-ton depot. It wa more than I eoiild bear, and I went to our state room and cried like a baby. I fully sympathize with Mrs. Cleveland. It was loo bad for she was a young lady, and so full of girlish enthusiasm. |