The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . ll have something for us to eat. Accordingly the next day Ibrought my brother-in-law, who was greatly astonished at thisunexpected invitation to lunch with the President, and muchtroubled about the etiquette to be observed. I found it difficultto quiet him withthe assurancethat in this casethere was noetiquette at he was stillmore astonishedwhen Mr. Lincoln,instead of waitingfor a ceremoniousbow, shook himby the handlike an old ac-quaintance andsaid in his heartyway th
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . ll have something for us to eat. Accordingly the next day Ibrought my brother-in-law, who was greatly astonished at thisunexpected invitation to lunch with the President, and muchtroubled about the etiquette to be observed. I found it difficultto quiet him withthe assurancethat in this casethere was noetiquette at he was stillmore astonishedwhen Mr. Lincoln,instead of waitingfor a ceremoniousbow, shook himby the handlike an old ac-quaintance andsaid in his heartyway that he wasglad to see thebrother-in-law ofthis young manhere, and thathe hoped theAmericans treat-ed him well. - —Mary, as thePresident againcalled her—wasabsent, beingotherwise en-gaged, and there were no other guests. So we had Mr. Lincoln atthe table all to ourselves. He seemed to be in excellent spirits,asking many questions about Hamburg, which my spoke English fluently, answered in an entertaining mannerand Mr. Lincoln found several occasions for inserting funny stories>. From The Life vf Abraham Lincoln, Ida M. IN 61. 4i4 THE STORY-LIFE OF LINCOLN at which not only we, but he himself, too, laughed most we left the White House, my companion could hardly find wordsto express his puzzled admiration for the man who, having risenfrom the bottom of the social ladder to one of the most exalted sta-tions in the world, had remained so perfectly natural and so abso-lutely unconscious of how he appeared to others—a man to whom itdid not occur for a single moment that a person in his positionmight put on a certain dignity to be always maintained, and whobore himself with such genial sincerity and kindliness that the dig-nity was not missed, and that one would have regretted to see himdifferent. The Reminiscences of Carl Schtirz, Vol. II, page 243. The People Will Understand The eyes of princes, nobles, aristocrats, o
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