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own presidential chances. This was the first 

 time I had heard his name mentioned as a candi- 

 date and it is a coincidence that at a dinner which 

 I gave about the same time I proposed "the 

 health of Gen. James A. Garfield, the future 

 President of the United States." 



The last time I was in Washington a lady in- 

 vited me, with others of the family, to dine out 

 with her. When dinner was served she reminded 

 me of what I already suspected, that we were 

 in the self-same room where many years before 

 she had heard me propose the health of Garfield 

 as the future President of the United States. I 

 told her then what I had concealed before that 

 the dinner was given because Garfield had asked 

 to be introduced to that beautiful girl with the 

 auburn hair who sat in the gallery with me dur- 

 ing his speech. The lady's grown up sons roared 

 at this till she blushed as naturally as in the long 

 ago. And now as I write the stork brings me 

 a card which tells that the girl is a grandmother 

 now. There were plenty of beautiful girls in 

 the families I knew and if chaperons ran short 



