The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-15
PROGRESSIVE EucHRE.


Mr.. Editor:-I am a country boy. l
read your paper, sometimes also the
Courant; my school books have read
again and again, 1 study my Sunday
school lesson and 60 to Sunday school.
This is about the limit to my opportun-
tiles to know the world and the people
in it. I often say the boys in our town
have 80 many opportunities that we
country boys don't enjoy. My father
tells me I can be as good in the coun.
try as in town, but this does not satisfy
my curiosity. I see Pm falling be-
hind the town boys of my own age.
Sometimes I get among the boys in
town and they talk Understandings
about hundred things I know moth
ing about. They talk of the nice peo-
pie playing progressive euchre at a
very nice place. and about them hav-
ing a nice time and many nice things
to eat. 1 ask further about these
things but they do not give me much
satisfaction. sometimes they seem to
think there is not much good in pro-
gressive euchre, but from what he says
he doe. not know much about it. In
fact he says he doesn't. Since l heard
the boys talk about the nice people
having nice time at progressive
euchre party: have read several &C.
counts in our papers about them, but
Pm not any the wiser. for the papers
take it for granted that every person
knows all about progressive euchre.
The paper speaks Of those who were
there, but it does not explain progress
sive euchre. 1t says those in attend
ance had nice time, but it does not
say whether the nice people had nice
time with other nice people or whether
they had nice time with progressive
euchre. What would like to know
is this: Does the nice time come from
association with nice people or does it
come from association with progressive
euchre? If it comes from association
with progressive euchre (and I think
it does, for the other kind of nice time
is very common even among common
people, I wish you would explain how
progressive euchre is played or worked
and what special training is required
before country boy in his teens can
make hand at it. My father tells
me sometimes that progressive euchre
ia an advancing game to euchre boys
out of good habits and good charac-
ter. 1 ask him why it does not euchre
those nice people in lola. When l
told him that the best people in lola
except the ministers, were progressive
Guchrers, he was silent for the space of
five minutes, and then said there
must be something progressive about
it or it would not have so nearly
caught up with the ministers. Then /
wondered whether progressive euchre
progressed the nice gamers or whether
the nice gamers progressed the euchre.
Will not some progressive euchrer
explain to US country boys something
about the game. if it is game? Let
US know howit begins. how it progress
ses the player, and especially how and
where it ends, if, being progressive, it
ends at all. COUNTRY Boy.
(There is an editor pro tenn in the
chair just now, and naturally he hest
tates to take the responsibility of FORM
ulating the policy of this paper on the
momentous subject of progressive ell.
chre. Nice people say it is nice, and
nice people say it is not nice. Nice
people play it, and other equally nice
people don't play it, and won't play it
sud think the devil is in it. Aud sure
enough, if aces and deuces, spades and
clubs and kings and queens and knaves
prevent thing from being nice, pro-
gressive euchre is 20. nice at all; for
they are all there. Nice people look
at things with differelt eyes. you see.
and really it is too nice q point for
man temporarily in authority to decide.
Perhaps come of the nice folks on one
.;da mr. tho other will give uS sOme