HOW TO SAVE BRAINS.
Bill Nye on President John Adams (the second President of the United States) and President Hayes:—■ Mr. Adams made a good President and earned his salary, though it wasn't so much of a job as it is now. When there was no Indian war in those days, the President could put on an old blue flannel shirt and such other clothes as he might feel disposed to adopt, and fish for bullheads in the Potomac till his nose peeled in the full glare of the fervid sun.
Now it is far different. By the time we get through with a President nowadays he isn't good for much. Mr. Hayes stood the fatigue of being President better, perhaps, than any other man since the Republic became so large a machine. Mr. Hayes went home to Fremont with his mind just as fresh and his brain as cool as when he pulled up his coat tails to sit down in.the Presidential chair.
The reason why Mr. Hayes saved his mind, his brain, and his salary was plain enough when we stop to consider that he did not use them much during his administration.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 11
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