Show MRS CLEVELAND HIS CRITIC 1 The President Often Gains the Benefit Ben-efit of Her Literary Taste Secretary Morton has just had bound and in a few days will send to the Nebraska State Historical society one of the most interesting books that ever left the Capital City It is handsomely handsome-ly done up in red morocco and the gilt title runs as follows Manuscript and Signature of President Grover Cleve land A Copy or a speech or tiis m the Handwriting of His Wife Frances Folsom Cleveland Presented to the Q Nebraska State Historical Society by J Sterling Morton of Arbor Lodge The contents are all in manuscript consisting of the original draft of Mr Clevelands address before the New England society at Brooklyn a few years ago this being followed up by a copy thereof in the handwriting of Mrs Cleveland The presidents chirography chirogra-phy is dainty regular and painstaking Mrs Clevelands is round and full almost al-most robust If anyone were called upon to say which of the two styles was masculine he would at once select se-lect Mrs Clevelands In the original draft of the address consisting of eight pages it is noted that during the first two pages the president did not find it necessary to erase or interline a single word Tn no single instance is the thought as first put upon paper changed except as to the words in which it is expressed giving evidence of the clearness and confidence with which the president thinks out his public pub-lic utterances It is understood the president submits all his important public papers to Mrs Cleveland in order or-der to gain the benefit of her excellent literary taste and criticism Chicago TimesHerald |