| Show barton observes by M A barton throughout the entire world card playing is a most common indulgence arid and to the millions who participate there is a definite reaction and just as many reasons for the love of cards card lii ife pastime pat time entertainment I 1 bay have watched indians indiana clad in only with the gee string playing their games I 1 have watched the slick tan manau manati evering of the ati tinhorn and heard the low guttural cursing of the desperado as they played their games around restricted flares of camp fires in desolate locations by the law of civic order ungoverned by municipal license I 1 have heard the merriment ent of laughter and petty expressions icons of disappointment in the most friendly and pleasing sets of society during an evening at bridde I 1 have heard men talk for hours of the game the night month or even geors before I 1 have heard social feminine chatter of the whys ghys and if its s of playing a hand I 1 have been nudged to remind me that I 1 was a stupid partner when it was my turn to play but there has always been an unexplained reason for my card playing stupidity never has any game inter ested me in and of itself something of far greater interest overpowered aie tessa aau but atil uiva ol 01 0 alsip xui aux of execution and many tims times my fi fiends bends have b became carne thoroughly disgusted with my extreme inaptitude at any sort of game from shielding thickets of trees and willow reducing the rays of a summer sun to comfortable sailors on oil winter nights 1 have been far more intensively interested in scowling t tight ight knitted foreheads uplifted brows and pouting side glances of winsome ansome eyes eves than I 1 could ever be in the cards themselves trying to understand the physical and mental expressions of those participating in the ranies games humanity is like a shuffled deck each hand delt represents and municipal perplexity of environment rach each shuffling producing an all intensified curiosity as to result civic social political each individual striving ho hoping P to be of value in the hand playing tie the game of life the deuce is is as important as tile the ace or the deck would be incomplete each card has its value each individual his worth were vc to ponder with the ahe same intensified thought concentration the perplexities of tilt individual of groups of communities as we do the hand delt in i a game of cai caida were we to scowl with knitt knitte etol td brows on misfortune and privation were we to cast pouting side glances at uninviting I 1 bere iere ere we to all play partners against civic social and political evils were we to study why the actions and conduct of our associates and companions as we i do the cards we have in the hand i those which have been played and speculated speculate on the value of those hose t 1 in the deck wo we would net hear guttural curlings cur sings of misery privation and want but we would live in the comfortable parlors of joy and happiness listening to the merriment of laughter of each shuffled individual knowing each day we had played our hand band the best we knew how in the great game of life |
