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in her younger days. His ** riding orders " were as 

 follows : 



"Balance to your partners, 

 Balance to them all, 

 Man with the bad breath 

 Balance to the wall." 



I suppose that, short of trying the '* Fragrant 

 Floriline,'' a specific largely advertised for this afflic- 

 tion, it was, in the circumstances, perhaps the best 

 thing he could do. My dear old mother was 

 immensely tickled with this story when I got 

 home. 



On the 1 8th Mr. Chamberlain dined with the 

 President, and the next day he gave his second big 

 dinner at the Arlington. The guests comprised 

 Mr. Bayard, Sir Lionel West, Sir Charles Tupper, 

 Justice Field, Judge Davis, Mr. Wharton of the State 

 Department (to whom I have previously alluded), 

 Mr. John Bigelow, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell 

 of phonographic renown, Bergne, and myself. We 

 went to a dance at the Whitneys' afterwards. How- 

 ever late we got back to the hotel after these func- 

 tions, Mr. Chamberlain always enjoyed his cigar, 

 and I generally kept him company. We seldom 

 got to bed much before three. Bergne as a rule 



