Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — What is Presence of Mind? [ARTICLE]

What is Presence of Mind?

At the closing of a concert in Bradford,while a young gentleman was struggling with his.hat, cane, overcoat, operaglasses and his young lady’s fan, all of which he was trying to retain on his lap, a suspicious-looking blaek bottle from the overcoat pocket fell on the floor with a loud thud. “There!*’ he exclaimed to hi» companion, “I shall lose my congh medicine.” That was presence of mine}.