Show grants different hats after his return from abroad grant had bad a little Jap japanese aneste servant Eer vant who tool took charge of him as though the general were nvere a bit of machinery and he were the engineer some of the newspaper men noticed that in the course of one trip grant had bad on six eis different hats and they laughingly asked him what was the significance of the change grant laid eaid why I 1 do not know I 1 supposed iliad I 1 had on the same hat bat all the time investigation brought out tho the fact that the little jap through the suggestion of some of the ladies of the party or some of tho committee had received ideas as to nab what t kind of a hat the general ought toscar to wear at certain towns if it was a college town just before he arrived the little jap would tiptoe to the general remove tho the slouch hat place a silk hat bat carefully on the generals head and trip out oat the general never losing a word of rny any conversation at the next nest stop if it was explained to the he little jap that it was a soldier town off would come tho the silk hat and on went the generals military hat bat he made it a rule for the general never to appear at two places in in the same hat bat and the joke johe of ci it was that grant himself did not know anything of the scheme philadelphia inquirer quotation sir is a good thing there is isi a community of wind mind in it classical quotation is the parole of literary men till all over the world johnson |