The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-03
PLAYING CARDS.
peeuIiarities Of Those Cseo oy KY
Different Nations,

"o,a nc fha most interesting ceilec.
tons Of foreign loot that We sern
recently said q man ordiilarA's to'
h7sv 70 make the trip over the seas
hinself. sis an assortment cf Playing
oords crom various parts Of the world.
an every country the owner OF the
collection visited-and he Went 10 a
Good ,nany-picked up cards OF local
manufacture aud SO representative u
the nation.
The Russian cards are perhaps the
most elaborate. The faces Of the kings
and greens are different III each suit.
indicating the racial elements that go
to con pose the empire.
son the Greek cards classical heroes
and heroines are represented. NeStor,
for example, is the king Of hearts and
Orestes the knave. Aeamemnon is the
king of clubs. Hercules the jack OF
shades and Minos and Danae the king
and queen ci diamonds. The Greek
pack Is rather I cheap one and scarce
ly does honor 70 the celebrities por-
trayed.
..CaGiz is a center for card manufac-
turing. The idea of the Spanish card
maker seems to be to get as much color
on the cards as possible. The royal
robes are Of unusual nagrihcence.
The clubs are big bludgeons IN green
and red, and the knave OF clubs sasis
cspar:soned on prancinG horse: re-
minds YOU instantly Of Jack the '*laht
Killer. The spades are ugly Httie Gag
rers and for hearts and diamonds
there are disks and dice cups. Inc
cords in some OF the Spanish packs are
rerv thin and have 4 capital spring.
..:rhe Madeira cards come from Lis
bon. The figures are more convention
al in design than on the Spanish. The
nee cards are adorned With typical
Portuguese scenes.
"a peculiarity Of the pack bought IN
ConstantinOple is that the ace cafdS.
in addition to the single spade, dla-
mond. club or heart in the center OF
each, have diminutive aces at the up
per left hand and lower right hand
corners.
'The Italian face cards portray de-
cidedly gloomy personages. Each one
Of the face cards, by the way, carries
in small print the name and address Of
the maker. There are tiny packs, an
inch and a quarter by an inch and
+bree-onarters in size. which can be
bought on the streets Of Naples for q
sol6o. These resemble the Spanish
cards to some extent, although the
ROYALTIES are more dignifed.
Cairo is a great card emporium, and
Mousky street offers rich returns TO
the card hunter Fortune telling cards
must be in demand there, to judge
from the samples I saw in the collec-
ton. The Cairo playing cards come
mostly from Germany. They are bril-
liant in their coloring. The aces carry
scenes from lands both west and east.
ssThe gem of all the packs comes
from Switzerland. The cards are
small, one and three-Quarters by two
and half inches in size, and the back
design is the edeiweiss. The kings,
queens and jacks are delightful studies
in Swiss costume, and the purchaser
certainly gets his moneys worth, for
each face card has two half figures
quite unlike. On the aces are Swiss
scenes and objects Of interest, also two
to a card, the subjects including the
castle Of Chillon, the Matterhorn, the
bridge at Lucerne and the Lion Of Lu-
cerne. Star.