| Show f I 1 1 join M american histon st ry iva lotus A 77 went 6 i M ax I 1 1 av N myk fa N N T by ELMO SCOTT WATSON WAY WAX back in the seventeenth century to the cardinal mazarin was entrusted the task ot of preparing a young prince for or hta his future career As king ot of france that career barcer which was to rocko inake louis quatorze bouts louts v XIV forever to famous as the aua king and ile fla grand blon arque 11 mazarin found that ill hla 9 royal pupil cashot was not nearly so BO much I 1 interested tn in the studies which should tit fit him for his high position na as ha bawin wIn was la other activities which later wort wery to make the tha french court notorious and which were to lend lead eventually to thi the downfall or of the house of abour boo bon one of tho the young Ir frinces Inces favorite Wyer was to playe nt at cardes and the cardinal decided that he might ns ais well take ot of est esi by introducing nn educational ele men tInto alie pastime ahe 80 he ordered a maker ot of playing cards awards to devise iome cards carda irom w iba tko prince could learn I 1 earn such things fil ngi na ai geography and h history Is tori while liodas ho lio was playing the ga game soon boon thero there was delivered to two seta sats oth 1 cards ono was historical pet and boro bore tile ale so f famous queens and the stories of careers care erg tte the other cyns a geographical gr daine gagae each card representing presenting rf somo country with a short de description of ot that land and illustrated with it a symbolic my figure dressed in the native co coa tume among tile the countries depleted depicted thus were certain parts of 0 north america tw two D of which virginia and florida are shown tn in the illustrations no 1 7 and 8 accompanying this article nat aurally tha symbolic figures ot these two ore tria maidens loens but it is lu in to bot that ta native COS coa tubie as aa hoin on these cards print od ed b back ackan in IMI Is jsn not ot so dlf different lerent per opa adlet at least tn one case from those tho of today take a look tit nt abyo ond and except for the bow and ar row rov you might almost think that you were looking at the picture 0 of a hath bath at palm beach or some pome other seaside resort I 1 it la futile to speculate upon how much thi the young prince learned crovi rom these educational cards and it might light be ba jumping 4 at conclusions too dustily to ascribe to them the awakening of his interest in foreign countries which nade him nn an imperl imperialist allet and led to frances Fr anees colonizing expert intents la in the now new world nut but the fact remains that ot of all the french inon acclis archs of the ho seventeenth Seventeen til century louts bouts XIV was tile the first and only one to take on all active and enduring interest tn in tho the grat crusade to the northern wilderness lie began his personal reign about acco with a genuine display of zeal teal for the establishment of a colony which would by its raple growth and prosperity soon crowd the E n glisa off the new continent gel and this zeat zeal kept on to theand the end of his reign although these cards carda ot of the ro rench french king icing which ore are preserved inthe in the mu ma seum of the united states stales claying card company la in cincinnati ohio were perli apa the first thus used to inform europeans about the new world at they 11 edw were ere not tho the only ones la in the same museum Is another set which deals out seine american history to tho the visitor it Is a geographical card game in EIn england gland in no 1 aldno and vo 3 lu in the illustrations above on one of them no 1 la is given tile the following quaint description of new england newn new n un eland by some to Is counted a fart of the tha great areat revlon kenion canada it la in bounded bound edwith with virginia on the south where Is the tha late conquests of the netherlands at present called my 14 w tork with u oo 00 d city 0 I 1 that name bere la is maryland where la the tha town of baremore BaU nal emore temore and Caroll carolina ns cherb li Is charlos town vo but the capital of 0 this government la in boston and other considerable towns are new plymouth DrIs towa vo ve the church government ta in presbytery vo vc this va country u nry abounds with all sort of van pana tio ken where they may find room to plant in towards the tha west I 1 it being a country not w well all discovered tull full ot of boada ads V FAva lavaga irs inhabitants ther therbor fore for not bounded when their caroe hava a sir strength c nath to ad advance vance other plantations belon belonging belong aing lne to tha eng lish toward the north are now found land choso chos chelf chek town ta Is torbay corbay most moat considerable for the IrI shing trade north walles south walles Wal lea the tole ot of cumberland V vo 4 are ar great regions in titled to the english Knel lali but are little hitt 0 in habited as yet vet in ft a country abounding with nil all sorts of ono would naturally expect to find the blue noses frowd ing upon such frivolous things as playing cards but the fact Is that they were ero manufactured in this country even ta in puritanical new england land isaiah thomas thema in his bis Ul story of printing in america mentions jumes james franklin as it a boston printer and tells how lie he printed upon cards verses that the youthful benjamin had writ 1 a U a a 40 94 0 ten about black deard beard the pirate ben himself afterward to them as miserable ditties but at that tuna time they had a large sale no less interesting than the historical material to be found on the faces ol of tile the playing cards Is that found up tipon the backs of the cards in the colonial days it was the custom to use the plain backs of the cards tor for various things ti lings in the cincinnati museum are cards with the backs printed a and nd used as 03 cards card of admission to entertainments tain ments lectures and classes at the university ot of pennsylvania from 1705 to 1771 TI and as invitations to teas and assemblies and balls some also bear directions for figures ot of aqua square re dances andl and others various patriotic games one no ot of the most interesting to Is that shown in no 2 it Is a silhouette portrait or of joseph by tho famous artist charles wilson peale in 1824 11 14 when lafayette cam came e back bach to visit the country whose independence he had helped to gain a new england card maker baz IL II 11 ford issued a set ot 0 playing cards in honor ol of the distinguished frenchman whose portrait surrounded by symbolic designs was printed as the ace of spades as shown to lu no 4 among the interesting exhibits in the museum are the playing cards of trie tiie civil war period in which the patriotic motif tg is strong instead of hav ing the usual suit signs of spades clubs diamonds and hearts flags shields end and other patriotic emblems were used an example of this Is no 0 ot of the illustration above in which the tha bewhiskered general Is the king of whatever suit Is designated by the gas flog up in the corner the queen of the flag suit was the symbolic symbol lc figure ot of col columbia u rubt Q A another n other gard card ot of this same era Is shown in no 6 5 in which the figure of ct the monitor famous for its victory over the tha merrimac wai wa I substituted for ono one of the con conventional volitional suit symbols |
