| Show NATIONAL MEN AND AFFAIRS Wilson Bashful in Presence of Small Group Why He Had Few Intimates Mrs Wilson Bows to Cow in Salt Lake City By ROBERT noBERT T SMALL 6 Stardard n er Special Corr Copyright C 1914 1924 by The Th dated Prose Pr WASHINGTON Feb r b There 9 9 were many elde sides aides to Woodrow Wll It'll- son Jon which the public never nevor kneW Probably the th tb least leut known own of all alland II and aDd yet the th one OB which accounted for much of the misunderstandings lof of this great man 1 nim aaa hie hl dUct dUct- diffidence dence his hi bashfulness In a a group croup of men By some omo of those thole who knew him It least leut but berated him the tho mot most he be 11 was wa pictured as a a supreme egotist ImposIng hi his views 1 and his hla hi will upon all with Whom he came CAm In contact Nothing WU was further from the th truth Th There Ia i no doubt that Woodrow Woodro Wilson wanted at times Umea t to be what the world calla a good follow fellow It was as one ODe of the tb great gT at regrets of his hla hilife lIf- lIf a regret Tt often oUen expressed that he had hod never neTer slapped another man manon manon manon on the th back Wilson Wll on was waa wa not oot an aute austere and bloodless creature Whatever of that pose poe poi he h a assumed a wu was ly an attempt to cover upa upa up a natural diffidence from which he could not divot divest lIson I I wu was not forever and eternally thinking of and nd dialing dealing with the I abstract Small bits bit of humor ap- ap appealed ap appealed pealed to him Often I ap-I ho he would devote ote an nn entire evening to think up limericks limerick It has hao ha been ben well ell said of Mr Wll- Wll Wilson son on by former Governor Cox of Ohio that his thoughts were of peo- peo people peo poo people pl In the tha maM maa m and not u as a Indi vidual Yet Tet no DO man ever tried harder than Woodrow Wilson to b be companIonable No man ever told better botter stories Mr Wilson en was wa at home upon the ro rostrum trum He could face faco ten or ten thousand persons In An audience without a quiver Yet let him suddenly find himself thrown with a group of four tour or five men and there was waa a nervous nervous- ne nose neM of manner and speech which showed hoed him til at eaR ease To the mind this diffidence dence of Woodrow Wilson explained many things thing It explained why he never IOne had any close cloae men mn friends friend I I One should not say any friends friend for he did have on one Admiral Gray Oray Grayson son Gray son on Wilson lIlon would ha have liked other oth- oth other oth other er friends friend but sheer bashfulness kept him from the contacts that other men In the tha pre presidency hA hate hAe hAmade e made Mr Wilson Wll on dated his hi own break break- breakdown breakdown down from the day dy he reached S Seattle Washington on hl his league of nation nations tour This wu was wa some 10 days before the trip was wa aban aban- abandoned abandoned Tho The then president complained com com- complained complained that he had not been able to sleep Bleep In Seattle or since Ince that date It was Willi not strange that he awake In Seattle The ton ton n WM was gay The American fleet net had just come In fro from lit Honolulu All of the blue jackets were on shore lave It aas na their Idea Idoa that they should serenade the commander In chief all night long So 80 they paraded the streets treet and gathered under the presidents president's window t at atthe atthe the Washington hotel with guitars and ukuleles ukulele singing On On the Beach at and nd other othor ditties they had picked up In the HawaIIan Island Islands At 3 o'clock In Inthe inthe Inthe the morning Mr Wilson grew more and more nervous and finally moved from his hi room rooms on the sec sec- second ec- ec ond ec-ond ond floor to an apartment on the tho roof But Dut he could not get away om B-om from the tumult of city e oxen eien en up upI I there thore Ordinarily he would have ve enJo enjoyed ed the whole business but hl I fra ed nerve were beginning to collapse Mr Wilton was wag wa so much better after atter a couple of day days back In Washington that Mrs Mra Mr Wilson pv gave a tea at the White Whito House to the members member of the party porty It was a oily jolly affair with many humorous humor reminiscences reminiscence of events event that occurred oc- oc occurred oc occurred on the trip One of the tho happiest spirits a at t that party was Charley editorial corre corre- correspondent of the New York Times WAIl Who preceded Woodrow Wilson In death but Just a few short day da There Impend was wa s no sense eeDe wn of the Impend Impend-I Impend Ing permanent disability of the tho president at that time l Mr tr Wilson laughingly told thoI of I the great joke the tho president had iad hadon on her She had al always 01 ridden I with him In the presidential par par-I par I adea ades I de which marked tho the trip and In company with the president had hoa graciously the I chorus and plaudits plaudit of the people Mr Mrs Wilson Wilton Wll on said ald It became bume almost automatic to begin bowing to the tho tholen len left and to the right Immediately she he took her place In a a car CJ At Salt lake City CUr there then ther had bad ben been the usual parade through lanes lane of oC I cheering thousands thou nd the usual u ual bows bos bowland and aDd miles oC ot acknowledgement Then the party part waa was whirling alonea alonga along a stretch of titled settled road out to the tho army any pot post On this Mrs Mr Wilsons Wilson's at- at attuned at attuned tuned ear caught what she he h thought was a lonely cheer TurninG ehe aho h bowed and smiled her prettiest In Inthe the direction of the unexpected I To her amazement and andi i much to her bar amusement she he found herself helf facing an old cow co which was wae lowing In the field beside the road The president had hod many a good laugh lauch over that In- In Incident in Ther There w w war a S striking of Mr Ur Wison's natty native diffidence at Portland Ore Oro Or The writer had boon bon Injured In the automobile wreck which snuffed out the life of Ben Bon Allen Alien correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Deater and also 10 al killed the h owner of the machine It so 0 happened that an automobile mechanic from Washington who had done dono some ome ome work for tho news- news newspaper pAper new per paper men was waa wa In Portland Ue Ito read of the accident In the th extra papers paper an and came down to the train that evening to se see eu the he writer H He aas standing beside the bed when President Wilson came come In tn You would circumstances think that In those thoe tho circum circum- circumstances stances stance the mechanic suddenly thrown In close contact with the tho president of the United State tho biggest figure In the world at the time would have sho shown n the great great- greater er or embarrassment But Dut that wa was themore not true Mr seemed the more mono III at ease eaje It wa was a 8 vision Into Mr Sir Wildon Innermost self olf And so go while he h often wished he hene benos could amp lap ft II man on the back he be nos ne er or did dM |
