Show j- Do You Play j And did you ever stop to won- i der whether there is any tion between the number of cards j in a pack and the number of j weeks in a If merely a co- it is a rather curious I fact that there are fifty-two cards j in a pack and fifty-two weeks in a that the cards are divided i into four suits or thirteen cards and the year is divided into i four seasons of thirteen weeks and that a game of cards is usually won by taking seven which in turn coincides with the number of days in a 1 It is probable that there is no such as playing cards date back to an early period in i They are said to have j invented in the reign of about although some maintain that they were k known even at an earlier date in jj Originally the Chi- j nese playing cards contained only thirty in the The game of cards was known IB as early as the thirteenth century both in England and France as Kings by the would be considered a fairly good poker hand in these Some of the writers on antiquities contend that the game of cards was known among the ancient and that the merry old Kings and Queens il played something like to while away the weary hours and make a dollar now and It recorded that in the year 1778 a French soldier was caught some sort of a game of solitaire with a deck of cards in-a He was haled before the Mayor of the and thus excused himself for his little lapse from the ace reminds us that there is but one the deuce signifies the Father and the the and Holy the four represents the Four the the Five the sis says that in sis days the Lord made the heavens and the the seven tells that on the seventh day the Lord rested from his the eight signifies that eight righteous persons were saved when the Lord drowned the the that nine lepers were cleansed by the the ten means the Ten I see the continued the puts me in mind of the Queen ot and the king is the King of heaven and what of the queried the the knave is the Sergeant who brought me the don't know that he is the greatest replied the surely he is the greatest Whereat the soldier returned to finish his game of He sat at the dinner table a discontented The potatoes and steak under And the bread was baked too The pie too the pudding too And the roast was much too The soup so and hardly fit for the wish you could eat the bread and pies I've seen my mother They are something and 1 do you good Just to look at a loaf of her Said the smiling im- prove with age Just now I'm but a But your mother has come to visit And to-day she cooked the Lizzy M. |