Show SHYNESS TRAIT OF MANY GREAT MEN famous figures of history among them there Is ample authority tor for tile the assertion that president hoover la Is shy president coolidge was also shy and so BO was president wilson noone no one ever noticed shyness in pres prea dent roosevelt I 1 but the list of our shy ally presidents Is belong along one grant was shy and some said lin coln coin was that Is they seemed shy to some of the people they knew or met who wrote their personal impressions pres press lons of them afterward jeffer son was a highbrow highbrown high brow and no mixer you could not slap him on the back there was nothing of the shrinking violet in john adams but his eminent son john quincy was reserved and distant henry clay thought he was a prini prim little puritan as cold as a fish when he met him at ghent george washington according to a clergyman who knew him was shy silent slow and cautious this clergyman rev jonathan doucher boucher was an anglican churchman who returned to england at the outbreak of the revolution and the manuscript t containing hla his recollections of the first president was recently sold at auction in london for 95 05 rev mr boucher saw washington socially and also in connect connection lon with the edu cation of a young relative his mony lifts has some value so presidents of the united states have been described as shy even the most eminent of them that shyness must have been exaggerated as a personal handicap tn in the struggle for success what seems to be genuine shyness shy may be overcome by a strong will ambition and determination to get results outside of public life some of the most successful men have been said to be shy henry ford has impressed many people ns as very biffl dent even the late J P morgan prince of financiers shunned publicity as it if lie were obsessed with the desire for privacy ile he would never attempt to make a speech au an audience of schoolboys frightened him but even nn an orator may be naturally solitary some great actors have been shy edwin booth who was accustomed to take flye bye curtain calls in succession was wads said to be and what of president hla denburg lie ile la Is very different from wiiiiam william shyness signifies no lack of essential strength it Is a superficial not a fundamental weakness springfield republican |