Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1913 — MADE IT MATTER OF RECORD [ARTICLE]

MADE IT MATTER OF RECORD

Mark Twain Bound to Satisfy Hl» Better Half That He Had Obeyed Her Injunction.

Samuel L. Clemens Immensely admired Grover Cleveland, also his young wife, and his visits to Washington were not Infrequent. Mrs Clemens wee not always able to accompany him. and he has told us how once (it was his first visit after the president s marriage) she put a little note in the pocket of his evening waistqoa,t. which he would be sure to find when dressing, warning him about hlo deportment. Being presented to Mrs Cleveland, he handed her a card on which he had written. "He didn’t," and asked her to sign her | name below those words. Mrs. Cleve-

land protested that she couldn’t' sign It unless she knew whaf It was he hadn’t done; but he Insisted, and she promised to sign It if he would tell her Immediately afterward all about it She signed, and he handed her Mrs. Clemens’ note, which was very brief. It said: “Don’t wear your arctics in the White House:” Mrs Cleveland summoned a messenger and had the card she had signed mailed at once to Mrs. Clemens at Hartford.—Albert Bigelow Paine. In Harper’s Magazine.