Show I A Natural Inquiry I rhe The simplicity of some former Inaugural inaugural In In- augural haj happenings is illustrated by byan an odd story which has been revived and is is' is going the rounds at Washing Washing- ton It was originally told by Frederick Freder Freder- ick Douglass In his lecture on John JohnBrown Brown Just after his first inauguration tion President Lincoln was one day blacking his ls boots in d democratic fashion fash ion when s several veral foreign diplomats called and caught hIm bin in is the act Ond Ondo o 0 of them remarked sneeringly Mr President In in- our countries the duel chiei executives executives do not black their own boots Indeed d said Mr Lincoln ith ith evident tri C tV whose boot do they black |