A Novel Game.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 655, 5 September 1891, Page 3

A Novel Game.

“ A Game ot Whist, with Living Cards, set to Music,” with which the fashionable people of Philadelphia have lately been amusing themselves, is something novel. All the 52 cards in the pack were impersonated by young ladies and gentlemen, the dark-suit cards, such as clubs and spades, being represented by young men, while some of the most attractive young ladies were the suit cards of hearts and diamonds. All the court cards were represented by ladies and gentlemen in costume as nearly like the pictures on the cards as possible, some of the men making up grotesquely with wigs and false moustaches. The pack in suits entered, went through a shuffle to music, the cards were cut and dealt, and then a lady and gentleman, partners on opposite corners, played againet'another lady and another gentleman, also partners. The cards were led out to the centre of the open square by each player in turn, where the trick composed of four cards each time executed two graceful and merry movements, and then the trick was taken by the winning player by escorting the quartet to his or her group. There was not an awkward move throughout, and the interest of everyone was sustained from the beginning to the close of the game. The costumes were all most effective, especially those of the honor or “ court ” cards. The men representing the ordinary suit cards wore sashes of ribbon across their dress coats from the shoulder to the side, covered over with the card represented. The ladies representing the similar cards from the two to the ten spots iu hearts and diamonds wore white dresses, with a band of the card represented and a small pair of the same cards standing on one shoulder, as well as several tiny cards of the same denomination on their gauze fans. Some also wore similar fans of the cards in their hair.