Show onn r I I PRESIDENTIAL HAND I S An American Womans Woman Appeal C t tp 2 dim L p Those persons persona having no business but Who desire to tu pay their respects will be received by b tho the President in the tho Hast East Room Koom at 3 clock p 1 m in on Mon Man Mondays on days Wednesdays Wednesday and direction of ot the tho resident This announcement which appeared In the American papers and was posted up tip In conspicuous places In Washington three days after time the first Inauguration of ot Mr r McKinley gladdened gln the heart of tho the American people Another thing gladdened It too The Time Theer very er day after his Is on n March 6 Ii new now President went out lie He put on his lint hat and coat and took his cane and went for a Il along Connecticut avenue just Juet as ns the most ordinary gen gentleman might do and every day after that he went walking sometimes by b himself sometimes accompanied by his hits friend and anel secretary the lie late luto Mr Ir Pot Pom Potter ter or by b a friend Even Een on wet wot days he was not to be deterred from taking his III constitutional With rubbers and anel umbrella he ime would sally forth Corth boldly and smilingly A DELIGHTFUL DEMOCRATIC DE CUS CUSTOM CUSTOM TOM TOMI I was staying In Washington during those days and I remember how very er ernice nice and democratic I thought It was this to be walking among along one ono of ot beautiful avenues with witha a ft woman friend meeting the President of the United States Slates bowing to him bin Just M as one would bow lIow to any other oilier at nt I and a lift of the hat hiatt 1 began be n to grow iro In love with democracy and democratic customs and manners How 1101 perfectly delightful on a t Monday or a Wednesday or a n a Friday afternoon to pay gay to some friend Doing any anything tIming thing thin this No Then leta let run In to the Presidents and pass Ilass the time o day darl Then we would walk to time the plain place III lice on Pennsylvania avenue and run In tu tv the East Room with n a thousand or more other per OilS and am go 10 o up to Mr Ir Icy ley Ie and h ke hands and ond perhaps gay city Good afternoon Mr Mm 11 President I hope youre oure welt well and receive hack back Very err errell well ell thank you ou to see youl roul Oh democracy How great were thy th chArms Vas Waa not this the Ideal govern government Pleat ment of ot the people for tor the people b the people should It ever perish from the thc earth How plea I 1 a ed every eer one Was nan I say lay ay that with the coming of Mr r was All the coming of ot n a new ness n w regime or rather of ot the old regime revived For Forbe Forbe Forbe be It known that during the last latt two years PalS of ot hh hi tenancy of ot the White house Home President Grover drover Cleveland had got ot a fancy for tor taking care cate of ot and somewhat annoyed certain critical AmericAns Americana and AmerIcan papers rs by It re rt the number of ot receptions to those thoe persons having no business but who desired to pay Ilay their respects f J He lie IllI I knew he lie had enemies he knew there were er cranks and II abroad In the land hand and anti though he lie knew that at the reception receptions to tu tarn Dick and Kany hi he might bt be en tn angels unawares he was wan willing to miss tho the chance of at that tha glory 1101 In order to reduce to a 1 minimum the risk of ot encountering a pistol or i t dagger dogger In the tho hand of spine of those who sho might fain have Ino taken tallen his hand handS S In the newspaper vernacular he made himself scarce to his fellow citizens and somewhat unpopular into Inti the bargain Mil MIt m PRECAUTIONS In those closing days of ot his adminis too came the news of the assassination of a I President of ot France and the very vcr day da after Mr r Cleveland when wh n he drove out was vhs followed at n a short by two men In ordinary clothes and In a light buggy busey who ho It was cd never tool took their eyes eel on oft time the th presidential brougham It turned turnell out that hint they were detectives In plain clot hIs engaged by the President am anti always afterwards he never teen reen en either cither walking or driving without them th m and by b Washingtonians the they were given IlOn tho time name of ot the angels During hat that administration there wore Were Home little on the tho White House Jlou e lawn boxes that were tiny tin houses with a n door and a window end and a n chair a n table and within them each stood or sat a policeman and ond when the President walked about on his hIli lawn the policemen kept a 1 sharp lookout And It came comae to pass pasi that the tho great American people resented the guardian angels and the tho sentry boxes and when Then Mr Cleveland be lie tame came simply nn an ex cx and betook him colt with his hits wife and his hits babies to Princeton congratulating himself that when ho dl died d It might after nil all be Le In lit his imla bed bcd as 1111 beseemed a gentleman there reigned In his hili stead Mr McKIn ley ler 10 who dismissed tho the guardian nn an gels and tore lore down the amid went out walking and sent forth n a proclamation to all anh sundry to In time effect that those Persons person having no lIu ml might ht call anti shako hands with him every ever Monday Wednesday and Friday and the American people and the American press shouted Ah Alt Now ow we have hare a President who IK is not nt afraid Let us express our at finding that President has confidence enough In his fellow citizens citizen to ho shako hands and walk about the public highways like any an other oilier human being to meet youl Pleased to toree tore tee ree re you ou Ah h Thank you ou thank you ou The rame fame to you ou I hope you OU are quite qUill Wen well Mrs I Jones God Hod oj blew bIes Ille TU ou my ray In little man What hati Hope to tf U t Rome lorne day right I hope horle you ou will Yea I belless olle you ou will III How flow many thousands of ot times has hashe hll hashe he been saying these timings things during the time I past nt flue five years as 38 he lie has hall shaken hands with the Anarchist the Socialist 80 the washerwoman th little bootblack the th newsboy who expects to bo Ix President some hay day till Slinking Shaking hand hands shaking hands hand always shaking hands and ond now he lm h In Is hol perhaps murdered shaking hands blinds In lIlt name Mme Is It not now enough enouch anti may mn not he If It lie he Is rp live out omit the rest of ot hii hi term t rm without hi concession to Democracy run mad 7 hay liny Jr i ho not be b allowed to keep bli hi hand blind for his lila friends as all you and I In n a more humble bumble walk wull of at life many mn do Shall he not nol b bl be left In pence shall not the tue cue cus custom tom torn be changed shall not we Amen Ameri Americans rails cans become more sensible shall we not now no get over this handshaking mania Shall Shull we not abolish promiscuous OtiS ous handshaking nit qa one of the require requirements requirements ments merits of the time executive now HOW WOULD TIm TIlE PLAIN CITIZEN LIKE 1110 IT How should we like hike It U ourselves the time rest of or us Americans to be lie obliged to stand for tor with our right hands to be grasped not only ani by hy the tile cleanly the respectable the tho healthy but by 11 time the flit the time vicious the die dis diseased eased the outcasts and the InH of ot nil all the time notions nations of the time earth Perhaps a pet kitten has scratched our right hand perhaps there Is a small op open n wound there Along lolI conies comes a I stranger tho the touch of ot whose hand will Infect our own Oh Ohl tie horrible after all this cus custom torn toni of promiscuous handshaking Let Letus Letus us spare our smitten President If he survive and let lel us u spare dunce all nil his successors sore SOlS from this ridiculous custom Of course coune tie Ils only occasionally that thaI a I stranger extends one hand to be bo shaken and the other hand to kill und anti not al ai always ways WIlYS Is the time strangers hand a n filthy or orn orn ora n a diseased one but It Is II to say IQ the least n a tiring thing for tor n a President to it shake hands mands and such lIuch weariness must In time limo the nervous and It would seem as us though our executive should be bl loft left with a brain and nerve to look utter titter the great affairs of stats state affairs which whether r some people think th so or not ar are ur elly far tar more Important than being sociable and shaking hands Not only Is 15 tho the American Pre ld nt j thus thu cut with time the handshaking do the ds de d of ot his countrymen bent on onI being I sociable and free froe fr e and easy cany The wife 1 Ill of ot the tho President Pre Is I subjected to the same ordeal although In the time case caso of ot Mrs ire III much has been eon ex ax x her on account of her Mrs Irs Cleveland retired from rota the time White Houi with her hand hamid very sery much larger than her left the lie extra and per permanent permanent manent bigness having been broucht brou ht on by lIr her excessive handshaking This most b and most sweetly gra gracious gracious gracious cious of American women thought noth nothing nothIng ing lag of shaking slinking ten thousand hands In Inan Inan inan an evening or an afternoon Once Onee I stood behind hr hm h r At nt one of her after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon receptions Oh Your our bund hanl must be so 80 ell ellI I exclaimed when the tho four toUr thousandth person had passed No Xo she laughed showing me her right hand but Its frightfully frightful dirty See Sec Sp What hat a n sight t It sae the h hind of that mst most lovely First Lad of the tha theLand Lund Land Swollen red mind tind dirty dirt rota being belli pr grasped M anti and and shaken by II I anybody who h l to fl teel like Jlko walking Into the White While House HouRI She Sho took her hand away Iwar and went on with time the shaking smiling liar her wonderful I mile smile Into th the faces of ot the tIme Amer 1 iran Irmi people The wife of a 11 United States Stat Senator engaged me mime In lion Hate you sn seen n Mrs Irs I Ind hand nd she h Oh we hate bate alt all II warned warn Id her and end begged lies her to 10 Corer com It r with a el glove at a least lean It II U too awful to think of l f the kind of hands she h tome IOni om times the risks sh she runs ruM oh Democracy What criminal what things are ire sometimes sometime done don In Inthey inthey i iI I they U L I Bank Baak In London Dill Dally Mall dall |