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Show Mary Clcmmer Ames complains that smoking in done in tbo chamber of tho houHii of repn nentalivrH, and that tbo Hpitting ol lohai:'o juice on tho carpet is common. "The pale bluo carpot," she sayn, in the tndrju-n-' Untt "Ih about iia Bulled us a Mahlc lloor, I walked through it, when il was empty, the other morning, and was iiHloinsbed, not at tho number ol tho pitlooim, but they bad rarely lccnurd; that Uibar;o fpiidi stained the delicate tints of tho carpel, and that tbo piles of debris had been swept 1 iuto the corners. A niifeliur place would bo dillieult to imagine. Even the outrtide porticos and aleiH an-furnisbeil an-furnisbeil with lhemi detcrttahln re ceptacbw in vain, while the entire nurfaco of tho steps of tbo grcai marblo wing are a disgrace lo tbo nation. Tho marble reeks with tobacco exereneonccH from beginning lo end, and is discolored from top to bottom," |