Show I TALES OF TIlE DAY An Apt Comparison When General Grant became president of the United States many people were apprehensive knowing how taciturn and unaccustomed to civic functions he was as to the way he would conduct himself In his new and bewilderingly exalted office of-fice and especially on occasions which required oratory Accordingly one of his friends who was not able to attend the Inauguration ceremonies hailed with intense curiosity another friend who had been present Well well said the first breathlessly how did he act Just as he should And wasnt he nervous Nervous No he was just as cool and collected as Ifas If As if he had been on the field of bat tIe said the generals friend supplying he nr comparison that the other was seek Thais it exactly Youths Companon t Approaching It Gently The little man who awns says Yes maam to his wife had been sitting in silence for a long time And as he sat his lips became firmly set as if a resolution ton of great moment were crystallizing In his mind His wife had just laid down a book on political economy and taken ip ono on psychology Arethusa Iu stud gently Did you address me7 she Inquired Yen maam What do you want 1 want to speak to you if you dont minI I can spare yon a few minutes Do you remember sometime ago when you got me 1 campaign button and told me to wear i because you thought it represented the Tight side of the goes ton Yes And then in a week or two you brought me another > button bearing the features of a different candidate and fe1ures old me you had changed your mind geh f JJ The wisest people are these who learnas they live I wore that too Wily of course you did And then you altered your views again and brought me home still another cind of button record Yes Im not ashamed of our political And I wore that And when the same thinG happened three or four times more didnt I follow you right along and bear the insignia of your convictions proudly on mycoat lapel There is no doubt that you wore what everI told you to wear I J 116gave his trousers a sailors hitch andpagain said 1 L C J t If 1 0 il > u t Arethusa 1 What i it I Would you mind If I were to try a few suspender buttons by way of variety va-riety Detroit Free Press |