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or more invited guests, as often as once or twice every week. Mrs. Smith wrote to her mother: "Public dinners, public days, and private parties may take up a person's whole attention if they attend to them all.
PIETER JOHAN VAN BERCKEL
We have dined to-day at President Griffin's with a company of twenty-two persons, including many members of Congress, etc. Had you been pres-
