AZT Tony @) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON WAY back in the Seven- teenth century to the Car- dinal Mazarin was en- trusted the task of pre- paring a young prince for his future career as king of France, that career which was to make Louis Quatorze (Louis XIV) forever famous as the “Sun King” and “Le Grand Monarque.” Mazarin found that his royal pupil was not nearly so much interested in the studies which should fit him for his high position as he was in other activities, which later were to make the French court notori- ous and which were to lead eventually to the downfall of the House of Bour- bon, One of the young prince's favorite diversions was to “playe at and the cardinal decided that he might as well take advantage of that inter est by introducing an educational ele- ment into the pastime, a maker of some cards could learn such cardes” So he ordered cards to the playing from which things Soon there delivered to two game, was the cardinal wus a historical set and bore the pie- tures of famous queens and the stories of their careers. The other was a geo- graphical game, each card representing some country with a short description of that land and illustrated with a symbolic figure, dressed in the native costume. Among the countries depicted thus were certain parts of North America, two of which, Virginia and Florida, are shown In the illustrations (No, 7 and 8) accompanying this article. Nat- urally, the symbolic figures of these two are Indian maidens, but it is in- teresting to note that the “native cos- tume,” as shown on these cards print- ed back in 1664, is not so different per- haps—at least, in one case—from those of todny. Take a look at “Florida” above and, except for the bow and ar- row, you might almost think that you were looking at the picture of a bath- ing beauty at Palm Beach, Miami or some other seaside resort! It is perhaps futile to speculate up- on how much the young prince learned from these educational cards and it might be jumping at conclusions too hastily to ascribe to them the awiak- ening of his interest in foreign coun- tries which made him an Imperialist and led to France's colonizing experi- ments in the New world. But the fact remains that “of all the French mon- archs of the Seventeenth century Louis X1V was the first and only one to take an active and enduring inter- est in the great crusade to the north- ern wilderness, He began his person. al reign about 1600 with a genuine display of zeal for the establishment of a colony which would by its rapid growth and prosperity soon crowd the English off the new continent gets of cards, one . ’ > ri ne ” 9 » - (cruerte J artes of arouses Je Time rea, aL peu hakutee . fi eatend Jpuse le Gp J. hedone waqu a Jloronbegue Li ong dela mer dullort bnfuate eat Movembeque, fertile, ad Virgina Fa fu a la reonuelle France uy 7 Ae ——————————— and this zeal kept on to the end of his reign A } king. whicl t feum of thong! French 1 are preserved in the mu- he © Playi Card company these cards of the States were perhaps the fir thus used form Europeans ab to in- be New world. were not the ones, In the museum is another set which ‘deals out” some American history to the visitor. It is a geographical ecard game made in England in 1675. (Noa. 1 and No. 3 in the illustrations above.) On one of them (No. 1) is given the following quaint description of New England: New-England by some is Counted a Part of the Great Region Canada. It is bounded with Virginia on the South, where is the Late Conquests of the New Netherlands, at present Called New-York, with a good City of that Name here is Maryland where is the town of Baltemore and Carolina where i= Charles-Town Ve but the Capital of this government is Boston and other Considerable Towns are New-Plymouth, Bristown, Darnstable Ve the Church government is Presbytery Ve this Country abounds with all sort of Fana- tickes where they may find Room to Plant In, Especially towards the West It being a Country not well discovered full of Words V Savage Inhabitants therefore not bounded when thelr Forces have Strength to advance, Oth. er Plantations belonging to the Eng- lish toward the North are New-Found- land Whose Cheif Town ig Torbay most Considerable for the Fishing Trade North Walles South Walles, the Isle of Cumberland Ve are great Regions In- titied to the English but are little In- habited as vet, they same In a country “abounding with all sorts of Fanatickes” one would natur. ally expect te find the “blue-noses” frowning upon such frivolous things as playing cards, but the fact is that they were manufactured in this country, even in Puritanieal New England. Isaiah Thomas, In his “History of Printing in America,” mentions James Franklin as a Boston printer and tells how he printed “upon cards” verses that the youthful Benjamin had writ. ’ at. Flond, 1 “rk gran = “povite Jan a cong [, wa ala Lox ere {Bes d aia Virgo, Te ae oil, > it au ory fea Pes J JD peuples Font a HP . Hd on ° han the histor. found on + cards Is that found up on the rds. In Colonial days it was the custom to use the plain backs of the cards for vari- In the Cincinnati museum backs of the ca ous things, used as admission to enter tainments, lectures and classes at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1765 to 1771, and as invitations to teas and assemblies and balls, Some also bear directions for figures of square dances and others various patriotic games, One of the most interesting is that shown in No, 2. It is a silhouette por- trait of Joseph Hopkinson by the famous artist, Charles Wilson Peale. In 1824, when Lafayette came back to visit the country whose indepen: dence he had helped to gain, a New England card maker, Jaz H. Ford, Is sued a set of playing cards in honor of the distinguished Frenchman whose portrait, surrounded by symbolic de- signs, was printed as the ace of spades, as shown in No. 4, Among the interesting exhibits In the museum are the playing cards of the Civil war period in which the pa- motif is strong. Instead of hav- ing the usual suit signs of spades, clubs, diamonds and hearts, flags, hields and other patriotic emblems were used. An example of this is No. 6 of the illustration above in which the bewhiskered general is the “king” of whatever suit is designated by the flag up in the corner. The “queen” of the flag suit was the symbolic figure of Columbia, Another card of this ame era 18 shown in No. §, in which the figure of the Mouitor, famous for its victory over the Merrimac, was gubstitutad for one of the conventional suit symbols. cards of triotie A Silly Handshake When King Edward VII was prince of Wales and on a visit to Paris he suffered from a ecarbunele which forddd him to lift high his right el- bow when shaking hands. All the courtiers and dandies of his day Im. mediately copied this gesture and some people today still believe they are smart when they hold thelr arm high In that way. i One night while be was attending a first night at the Comedie Fran- cnlse and was talking to a group of people a dandy asked him: “Prince how did you like the play?’ The prince turned around a bit and dropped a chilly, “Sir, I did not think 1 had talked to you."—Detroit News. 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