The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-09-21

used 10 Germany; swords, cups, buttons
and money, used in Spain, and still
used there; eeur, trehe, piquet, and
oarreau, used in France; these cores
ponding to our hearts, clubs, spades
AID diamonds. The face. cards-also
called court and coat cards-haye been
distinguished, from time to time, with
many different names. Pere Daniel
tells us that by the French the king of
hearts was designated Charlemagne;
king Of diamonds, Caesar; king of clubs,
Alexander; king of spades, David. The
queens corresponding TO these were !:
Queen of hearts, Judith; queen of dia.
monds, Rachel; queen OF clubs, Argine;
queen Of spades, Pallas.
The Jacks, or knaves, of this pack
were or hearts, La Hire; of diamonds,
Hector; Of clubs, Lancelot; of spades,
Hagier.
These were the earliest. Next, in
the reign of Henry w the kings were
Solomon, Augustus, Clovis, and Con.
stantine; the queens were Elizabeth,
Dido, Clothilde, aud Pantalisca; while
the knayes had no names, bat were dis
tinguished merely by their costume
Again, 10 the tim: Of the French
Revolution, there were substituted, for
the kings, Moliere, La Fontaine, Vol.
taire, aud Rousseau; for the queens,
Prudence, Justice, Temperance, aud
Fortitude; while the knavos were four
republicans. One is grim looking
ruilian, with bonnet rouge upon his
head, aud pike in his hand; the sec
ond is soldier with u musket, the
third an arlilleryman, aud the fourth a
young man dressed in taneiiul costume,
also carrying musket.
Another pack gives for the four
kings, Solon, Cato, Rousseau, aud Brutus;
forthe queens, Prudence, j ustice, Union
aud Fortltude; for the kanyes, llannibal,
Horatius, Z. Decimus, aud NJ Sc@yola
There is also republican pack, de
scribed by Reignot, where the genii
are substituted for kings, the liberties
for queens, aud the equalities for knavos
The four geuii are OF war, Of the arts,
ofpeace, aud OF commerce; the liberties
are religion, the press, marriage aud the
trades; the equalities are of duties,
ranks, rights, aud colors. The aces Of
this pack are surrounded by four fasccs,
placed lozenge wise, carrying the words,
LA Loi, Rep. Frame" and the whole
colored blue. Also a pack from New
York gives, Instead Of the kings, Wash
ington, John Adams, Franklin, and
Lafayette; for the queens, Venus, For
tune, Ceres, and Minerva; and, for the
knayes, four Indian chiefs. Also
pack called Union cards" made dur.
ing the late war, gives, as the suits,
stars, flags, shields, aud eagles; while
for the king is substituted colonel,
for the queen goddess oil liberty, aud
for the knaye a major.
A pack Of geographical cards ap-
peared in the reign of King Charles H.
of England, in which tho fifty.two
couoties of England aud Wales were
geographically described on the cards.
The heads ofthe kings appeared on the
tops of the cards, on which were des.
cribed the counties Hereford, Mon
mouth, Middlesex, and Yorkshire; the
queens on Durham, Huntingdon, Rad
nor, and Worcestershire; and the knayes
on Anglesey, Gloucester, Leicester, and
Scotland.
The Italians have game called La
Mdnetiatd, which is said to have been
invented by Michael Angelo, to teach
children arithmetic. The pack has
ninety seven cards.
Louis XVIII. in 1918 granted
license for the manufacture Of cards,
aud pack made about this time has
for the kings Charlemagne, Louis TX,
Francis l., aud Henri "; the queens
uildegarde, Blanche dc CASTLE, Mar
guerite dc Valois, aud Jeanne d'Albret;
and the knaves Roland, Sire de Joiu.
vile, Bayard, and Sully. These are
given in the costume oil the period in
which they lived, and according TO their
grade or profession.
A pack Of cards most interesting to
gastronomers, teachers how to carve.
Hearts means flesh; diamonds, fowl;
clubs, fish; aud spades, baked meats.
The king of hearts presides over a sir
loin of beef the king Of diamonds com.
mauds turkey; the king of clubs dis.
penscs picked herring; while the king
of spades appropriates yenison pasty.
Cards have often been used for poll
tical purposes, and pack made in 1ol-
laud, during the time Of the stay Of
King Charles III. of England there,
strongly satirizes Oliver Cromwell and
the Rump Parliament. These cards
are all ornamented with some device,
and the suits aud numbers are marked
on the upper corners Of the cards; many
Of the cards have rhymes derogatory TO
the Cromwellians aud Parliamcntarians.
One, alluding to John bradshaw. the
president OF the commission which sen.
fenced Charles |. to death, is as follows:
bradshaw, the knave, sent the king to his
grave,
Aud on the blood-royal did trample;
For which, the next Lent, he was made presi-
dent,
And ere long he'll be made an example,"
The games which are played with
cards are innumerable and it would be
useless, If not impossible, TO mention
them all. will mention only few Of
the gayorites.
Bezique and sixty-six are the frvorite
games played in Germany. In every
becr-saloon or coffee. house one may see
parties playing either one or the other
of these games. Picquet and baccarat
are the pet games Of France. whist