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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 ndornen, the following pictures: "President" of hearts, George Washington ; of diamonds, dia-monds, John Adams; of clubs, ISenju-min ISenju-min Franklin; of spades, Lafayette. The "queens" were Venus Portiine, Ores and Minerva. The knaves wcro represented appropriately reflei'ting the general feeling among the whites by pictures of Indaln chiefs. Outlook. |