Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1904 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE DECLINE IN CARD PLAYINQ. Saturday Evening Post.

Cards seem to be going through much the same experience as drink. Time was when drink and cards were under the ban cheifly because they were thought to be wicked. But in spite of this widespread belief and crusades based upon it and prosecuted fervently, drink and cards grew in favor. Then came the commercial attack on drink. As soon as scores of the large employers and hundreds of smaller ones began to weed out the drinkers, the drinking habit began to decline —and will continue to decline.

The new attack upon cards is intellectual. Influential people who are intellectual, or are striving to be, or are striving to appear to be are frowning upon cards as “an absurd waste of time,” as childish and wearisome and fit only for the empty-headed. As there is obvious sense in this criticism, and as public opinion is what the leaders make it, the card-playing mania which had possession of the women and the men a few years ago is abating with gratifying speed. It is a silly way to pass any part of an i at least brief life.

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