Deseret Evening News | 1906-07-21 | Page 19 | The Reason Why

Tho TIso ItIn liy lIf y boards board are made mad to look like book books because Ender Elldee of ot Sicily tried to stamp lAmp out backgammon In the Jh century tides Hudes In H 1407 7 that Lila clergy forgy devoted more mono time to r I rand and cheM h than was goof for their spir I welfare Iare and therefore th ore he ordered that all III the backgammon and rhea hiM boards board In h 11 the Sicilian monasteries should be destroyed The wily monks only pretended to toi i whey b They bound their hoard boards In Lin calf ralf put puI rl u titles on their ba harks backs ks and put them on the th book bok bi k shells along with the iu Tl Th Thue us I w i III s iti fl i arid and a rill the monks nut not deprived of ot their Innocent gained and ami thus thim arose aroe custom of ot backgammon and chess cheM b l LI ard to resemble ble folio V I