Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1894 — Summer’s Invariable Dignity. [ARTICLE]

Summer’s Invariable Dignity.

November Century. Sumner’s figure was tall, wellknit and handsome. He had a nobk head, a profusion of dark-brown hair, which was arranged with an appearance of studied negligence, and his presence was always commanding and dignified. He was one of the few men whom visitors in the Senate galleries first asked to have pointed out to them. He affected a picturesque style of dress, wearing colors brighter than those which predominated in the Senatorial togas of the period. His favorite costume was a brown coat and light waistcoat, lavender colored or checked jtrousers, and shoes with English Igaiters. His appearance in his seat Jin the Senate chamber was studiousfly dignified. He once told me that he never allowed himself, Oven in the privacy of his own chamber, to fall into a position which he would not take in his chair in the Senate. “Habit,” he said, “is everything.’’ This being repeated to jolly Senator Nesmith of Oregon, he said: “I wonder how Sumner would look in his night shirt."