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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 "queens" were Venus Fortune, Ceres and Minerva. The knaves were represented appropriately reflecting the general feeling among the whites by pictures of Indaln chiefs. Outlook. |