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Show Bound to Have His Cigar. King Edward has been restricted by his physicians to five cigars a day. He has been an inveterate smoker almost al-most since his boyhood. Some thirty years ago he was dining wifh the late Lord Derby, who regarded the use of tobacco as a vulgar and unpleasant habit. After dinner the prince suggested sug-gested a cigar, whereupon his lordship lord-ship drily expressed regret that his house did not contain a smoking-room, adding that he could only suggest the stables as a suitable place for burning burn-ing tobacco. Much to his surprise the prince adjourned to the region indicated in-dicated and enjoyed his postprandial cigar. |