Show I I Captivated the President I I I Miss Lucy Buck a young lady of Front I Royal Ya recently wrote to Grover i CleVeland asking a silken necktie for a i crazy quilt to be made and sold for the I benefit of the poor In reply she received I I re-ceived a pleasant autograph letter from i f t the President inclosing an elegant tie for the purpose named Miss Bs letter was charmingly written in verse It was first published in the Alexandria Va Gazette and is as follows My dear Mr Cleveland know its a shame To bother you now but Tm not to blame At least not so much for Jack is the one who firstput me up to the thing I have I done iHe told me last night if Id make for the fair A crazypatch quilt and put in a square I Of something that Cleveland had worn he would buy The thing for himself no matter how high The price I might setand so dont you see If I manage this plan how nice it will be Jack gives a neat sum toward our fair for the poor Receiving instead what he values far more And then when I marry dear Jack it is plain rlll own both the quilt andthemomento 1 j again I Now dear Mr Cleveland please wont you just ask Your sister to send me tis not much of a task An old silken necktie or handkerchief say Some fragment of what youve worn any day To lend to my handiwork dignity due And then may the Fates most kindly hold you To piece at the patchwork youve taken in hand Irs intricate patterns at once small and grand Mayeach square thats fashioned with infinite art Glow with the tints truth and wisdom impart im-part Till the national crazypatch crazy no more Grows into symmetry neer known before And still something better I wish you may winSome win-Some true earnest woman who through thick and thin Will follow your fortunes as Ill follow Jacks And not any further your patience to taxI tax-I will close just adding this P S to say If yourown Secretary be out of the way Or too much engaged this petition to read Because it is small just tell him to heed This admonitionit never iswise The day of small things to neglect or despise de-spise For sometime perhaps in years not remote Ve women may have legal right to a vote Then if he wished to be President he Might have some aid een from poor little me Yerburn sap is the cueadieumay you I be As happy as good prays your friend Lucy B I 1 |