The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

plduI LIN
coin in the presidential chair did not worry Lincoln
half so much as it did the Jobs comforters who
surrounded him. To one of these Lincoln said,
fou were brought up as a farmer, wern't you?
Then you know what a chinfly is. My brother and
l were once blowing corn on a farm, l driving the
horse and he holding the pillow. The horse was
lazy but on one occasion rushed across the fields
SO that I, with my long legs, could scarcely keep
pace with him. On reaching the end of the fur
row l found an enormous chinhy fastened upon
him and knocked him off. My brother asked me
what l did that for. l told him l didn't want the
old horse bitten in that way. Why said my broth
er, that's all that made him co. Now, If Mr..
Chase has a presidential chinfy biting him l am
not going to knock him off if it will only make
his department 60"
Edward Dicey, in the Spectator, gives the i'm
preston made by Lincoln's outward appearance
on the mind of a typical cultivated E%nglishman.
TO say that he is ugly is nothing; to add that
his figure is grotesque Is to convey no adequate
impression. Fancy a man 6 feet high and thin,
bony arms and legs, which, somehow, seem to be
always in the way, with large rugged hands which
grasp you like a vice when shaking yours, with
a long, scraggy neck, and a chest too narrow for
the great arms hanging by his side; add to this
figure a head, cocoanut-shaped and somewhat too
small for such a stature, covered with rough un-
combed and uncombable lank, dark hair, that
stands out in every direction at once; a face fur
rowed, wrinkled and indented as though it had
been SCARED by vitriol; a high narrow forehead,
and sunk deep beneath bushy eyebrows, two
bright, somewhat dreamy eyes, that seemed to
gaze through you without looking at you; a few
irregular blotches of black, bristly hair in the
place where beard and whiskers ought to grow; a
close set, thin Tipped stern mouth, with two rows
OF large white teeth; and a nose and ears which
have been taken by mistake from a head of twice
the size. Clothe this figure, then, in a long,
tight, badly fitting suit of black, creased, soiled
and %puckered up at every salient point of the
figure-and every point of this figure is salient
put on large. i~ll-itting boots, gloves too long for
the long bony fingers, and a fluffy hat, covered to
the top with dusty, puffy Grape; and then add to
all this an air Of strength, physical as well as
moral. and a strange look of dignity coupled with
all this grotesqueness, and you will have the Inn
preston. left upon ne by Abraham Lincoln. You
would never say he was a gentleman. You
would still less say he was not one there
are men to whom the epithet appears ut
tefly incongruous, and of such the president is
one. Still there is about him a complete lack Of
pretensicn, and an evident desire to be courte-
GUS to everybody, which is the essence If not the
outward form of high breeding. There is a soft
ness, too, about his smile. and a sparkle Of dry
humor about his eye, which redeem the express
sion OF his face and remind one more of the late
DR.. Arnold, as a child's recollection recalls him to
me, than any other face l can recall to memory.
He is a humorist. not a button. :"