Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-03-24

than I could easily take care of were
already striving to serve me. scores
Of the brightest most ambitious young
men of the state eager to do my bid
ding, whatever 1t might be, in the
house that in return | would take
care of" them would admit them to
the coveted Enclosure round the plum
tree. The plum treel Is there any
kind of fruit which gladdens the eyes
Of ambitious man, that does not glis-
ten upon some one of it's many
boughs, heavy.laden with corporate
and public honors and wealth?
Burbank's indirect attack, through
his wife and Carlotta Jared better.
The first of it I distinctly recall was
after a children's party at our house
Carlotta singled out Mrs. Burbank for
enthusiastic commentator. The 9TH
er women sent nurses with their chik
dren," said she, but Mrs Burbank
came herself She was so sweet in
apologi2ing for coming. She said she
hadn't any nurse, and that she was so
timid about her children that she
to nurses. And really. Harvey you
don't know how nice she was all the
afternoon. She's the kind of mother
approve of, the kind | try to be.
Don't you admire her."
Il don't know her said |. THE
only time | met her she struck me as
being-well, rather silent"
That's it" she exclaimed triumph
antly. She doesn't care a rap for
men. She's absorbed in her children
and her husband" Then, after
pause. she added: well, she's well
come to him. l can't see what she
finds to care for"
"Why?" said I.
"Oh, he's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
polite, extensively polite to women
he doesn't understand them at all
thinks they like Difference and fiattery,
the low-grade molasses kind of fiat
terry. He has a very nice smile But
he's so stilted and tiresomo, always
serious,-and such a pose! It's what
call the presidential pose. No doubt
he'll be President some day"
"Why?" said I. It is amusing to
watch woman tumble about for rea-
sons for her intuitions.
Carlotta did uncommonly well. ooh,
[ don't know. He's the sort of high.
averaged American that the people go
crazy about He-he-looks like a
President, that sort of-solemn-no.
NP
know what l mean. Anyhow, he's go
ing to be President"
| thought not few days later.
while what Carlotta had said was
fresh in my mind, he overlook me
walking to the capitol AS we went
on together, I was smiling to myself.
He certainly did look and talk like a
President. He was of the average
height. Of the average built, and of a
sort of average facial mold: he had
hair that was a compromise among
the average shades of brown, gray,
and black, with a bald spot just where
most men have it.
His pose-T saw that Carlotta was
shrewdly right He was acutely self
conscious and was acting his pose
every instant. He had selected ii
early in life; he would wear it, even
in his nightshirt, until death He said
nothing brilliant, but neither did he
say anything that would not have been
generally regarded as sound and SEN
sible, His impressive manner of de-
liyering his words made one over
5a'ue the freight they carried. But |
soon found, for ! studied him with in
creasing interest, thanks to my new
CONT of view upon him. soon found
that he had one quality the reverse
Of commonplace. He had magnetism.
Whenever a new candidate was pro-
posed for Mazarin's service, he used
to ask, first of all, HAS he luck?" Ny
first question has been, Has he mag
7Ct'sm?' and / think mine is the bet
Ter measure. Such of ones luck as is
not the laundering blindness of ones
opponents is usually the result of ones
magnetism However, it is about the
most dangerous of the free gifts of
1ature,-which are all dangerous,
Of it, It compelled men to center upon
him; he turned this to his advantage
by making them feel, not how he
shone, but how they shone. They
went away liking him because they
had new reasons for being in love
with themselves.
I found only two serious weak
! nosses. The first was that he lacked
the moral courage boldly to do either
right or wrong. That explained why,
in spite of his talents for impressing
reonle both privately and from the
platform, he was at the end of his
political career. The second weak
ness was that he was ashamed of his
very obscure and humble origin He
knew that his being wholly self-made'
was a matchless political asset and
he used it accordingly. But he looked
on it somewhat as the beggar looks on
the deformity he exhibits to get aims.
Nathan uoalypace vnada hin, loco