Show SHYNESS TRAIT OF MANY GREAT MEN famous figures of history H astory among them there la Is ample authority tor for the assertion that president booyer Is shy ally president coolidge was also shy ally and so was president allson ilson no one ever noticed shyness in fit pres pre ident loosevelt but the list of our shy presidents Is a long one grant wn was 3 shy and some said lincoln was that thai Is they seemed silv to some of the people they knew or r met who wrote their personal tin impressions pres press lons of them afterward jeffor son eon was a highbrown highbrow high brow and no mixer you could not slap him on tile the back there was nothing of the shrinking violet in john adams but ills his eminent son john quincy was reserved and distant henry clay thought lie was a print prim little Purl puritan tan as cold as a tish fish when he met him at gliedt george washington accord according ln to a clergyman who knew him film was shy silent slow and cautious this clarg y man rev jonathan boucher was an anglican churchman who returned to england at tile the outbreak of the revolution and the manuscript containing ills hla recollections of the first waa recently sold at auction in london for 05 95 rev nev mr boucher saw washington socially and also in connection with the edu cation of a young relative ills idony lins has some value S so 0 ni amny a n y clr presidents e s i de n ts of tile united st states i t es 1 have a ve b been e e n d described e se bribed as aa shy even tile the most eminent of them that arliess must have been exaggerated ng as a personal handicap in III the strut gle for success what seems to ile be genuine alty shyness riess may ile be over overe coraa ollia by a strong will ambition and d determination to get results outside of public life some of the most successful rn men n have been said to ile be shy ally henry ford has ini im pressed many people na as very biffl dent kven even tile late J P I 1 morgan prince of Inanc tera lers shunned put pub lacity na as it lie were obsessed citi the desire for privacy ile he would never attempt to make a speech AU an audience of schoolboys frightened him but even an orator may be naturally solitary some great actors have been shy ally edwin booth who was accustomed to take five curtain calls in succession was wag said to be and what of 0 president ilia denburg ile he Is very different from william shyness fles no lack of essential strength it la Is a superficial not n fundamental weakness springfield republican |