Brigham City Bugler | 1891-08-29 | Page 2 | Antiquity of Playing Cards

Antiquity of Playing Cardn. The game of cards was first played in the east, aud seems to have had a military mili-tary origin. Cards were rstrodnced from Asia into Europe at the rhtae of the Crusades, nnd were first used by necromancers necro-mancers to foretell fortunes. They soon became a popular amusement in the south of Europe, where the Saracens and Moors taught tho people how to use them, and card playing Bpread to all parts of the continent. The state records of Germany mention the fact that Rudolph Ru-dolph I, in 1275, was fond of the game and played with his courtiers. After the invention of paper the manufacture manu-facture of cards became extensive, but declined somewhat when card playing was forbidden by several of the German states and by the English government on uccouut of the supposed immoral tendency. Before the era of paper, cards in the Orient were made of ivory, papyrus papy-rus and canvas, less frequently of the precious inotals, and quite commonly of wood. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.