Card Playing At The White House

Tbere has qoI een :i paok of oards ar aírame pl.íyo.l iu tho wliitu house 3noe two iuohium befonMíen. Grant lef t i!. Dui-im' fíen. (írant's term puchro ;n; . often playod in the liturory. In iiose days It was) piten long i Ier mMuUrHi beforo the! tast visito? wout av;i . lïotn the J 3ion u'iiii one of th ; rood ( eigars in bis rUouLlt. "A.lmiral I ter, Gn. Vati Vlwit,tho Piositfent., and I Col. liem ucir Hm most, resillar ' rs, mi I lol. fciuraoe l'ortet' and Oen. ' chenck frrqtiontly m'd. G-l'u. ' r.-iïit was ionJ of eimhre, aud was ' uoivn a's : :'irl partner. He wonld I as siloül as }(iu aan imagino during Grainn atid ii.-u-.ilv :' h - rom the oarii I i c:!i for or li'ht ti fT.es li c:ir. i íi !■: wero no póor jla_ , ijo, liowever, and tliö.ii mí ha , iua w is so intense i líai i i su . lm p irticipated id eb! -.'..i is tn bvctryl fim else imt tho pl.iy. l'li tnd Gen. S an '■ . ,i,. ;■; pers in thü euelire ■ i Admiral Porter and ( :.il, : freqnenüy t happoncitl Urn o ut ot I . air n ould i l !ól. Porter v ..'■ - . ■ , [, Jiil . r;iij Vüoi vv .1 i ■■ : ,tod to the game, umi I ni;;ht