Show SHYNESS TRAIT OF MANY MAY GREAT MEN Famous Figures of Histo History y Among Them There is ample authority tor the assertion that President Hoover is sh shy lIesl President ent Coolidge was as also shy 11 and so was President Wilson No o one ever eer noticed sh shyness nes in Pre free ident Roosevelt hut but the list of our sh shy Presidents is a long one Grant Grunt was shy h ami and some said Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln wn was That Thai is they seemed shy sh to some same of or the time people they knew nr r met who met wiio wrote their theil personal Impressions Im ha pressman of them theta afterward Jefferson Jeffer son was n a highbrow and no mixer you Oll could not slap him on the back hack There was nothing of the shrinking violet In John Joltn Adams hut but his eminent eminent emi emi- nent son John Johan Quincy was reserved and m distant Henry Cia Clay thou thought ht h he lee was a print prim pl m little Puritan as cool cold collIus as us a fish when he lie met him nim at Ghent fluent George Washington ton according to 10 a clergyman llan who knew him hie was sh slay shy silent slow and cautious This clergyman Rev He Jonathan Puncher Boucher was an Anglican churchman who whim returned returned returned re re- turned to England at the outbreak of the Revolution and the manuscript containing his recollections of or the first President was recently sold at auction in London for SO 9 Rev He Heh Mr h Boucher saw Washington socially and ancl also in connection with the edu edu- cation of a aoun young oun relative His Ills testimony test test- j ninny mony mon has lias some sonic value So many nulU Presidents of oC the United States have been described as ag shy even 11 the most eminent of them that shyness h must trust have ha neon been exaggerated as a pcr personal onal Itan handicap in the struggle gle le for 01 success What seems to b be genuine sh yes a may I be p e overcome h by a n stron strong will ambition nut and determination determination de dt termination to get results Outside e of public life some of ot the most successful men have been said to be sll shy Henry Ford has Impressed Im ini- pressed ninny many people as asery very ery dIM dIM- im- im dent Even Kven en the te late lute J J. p P. P Morgan an prince of or financiers shunned publicity pub pub- as j if he were obsessed with the desire for privacy He lie would never attempt to make u It speech An Au audience of schoolboys schoolboy frightened him biro But even mi nn orator may be naturally solitary solitary- Some great reat nes nc n- 1 tors have been heen sll shy Booth Iwho I Iwho who was accustomed to take five curtain calls in succession was wag said sair 1 to Ill bo And Ind what n of President rUn Ella He is Iser very er different from Imam Shyness ness h signifies no lack of essential et essen essential en j tin I strength th It Is a superficial not nor nora a II fundamental weakness Sprin Spring Springfield field Republican An acorn cannot make much head h headway i 1 way in a n flower pot Tr Train ln Time The titan man who Is Ls wedded to art should have haye a model wife All 11 l finding fault isn't criticism 1 |