Show Special Playing Cards Wow Now For Far Subjects of the Kaiser Kalse Gorman German war wor enthusiasm has found vent In tho the banishment from Berlin of the conventional playing cards and the substitution of ot specially printed packs says a writer In which the tra tra- kings queens and knaves have hava been superseded by portraits of war celebrities such as for Instance the I kaiser and the crown prince linden linden- lindenburg burg Von muck Kluck and aud I The Idea Is not exactly new similar similar simi simi- lar patriotic packs having made their appearance In 1870 71 during the last German Franco-German war These are areno arenow arenow now no valued by collectors Many years later the kaiser had a n number r of so called royal packs printed from his own designs at nt the th e German government playing card fn factory fac C tory Cory at Altenburg near Berlin DerlIn One On Ce e of these now in possession of Kin King S George bears the portrait of his grand grandmother mother Queen Victoria as ns queen o ol 01 hearts The kaiser figures as IlS the kin king kIna of ot hearts while while-to the IB fa k tile rae of or spades spade S By a pretty bit of Irony the knaves are represented by four tour I leading I European statesmen Lord Beaconsfield Britain's then premier pre pr mier being knave J. of at clubs dubs |