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Show American Playing Cards Early American playing cards, according ac-cording to an article In the American Printer, showed the national antipathy to kings and queens by presenting, Instead In-stead of the conventional figures with which playing cards are now adorned, the following pictures: "President" of hearts, George Washington; of diamonds, dia-monds, John Adams ; of clubs, Benjamin Benja-min Franklin; of spades, Lafayette. The "queons" were Venus Fortune, Ores and Minerva. The knaves were represented appropriately reflecting the general feeling among the whites by pictures of Indalu chiefs. Outlook.. |