Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1883 — THE GAME FOR OLD AGE. [ARTICLE]

THE GAME FOR OLD AGE.

If I had children to educate, I would at 10 or 12 years of age, have a professor or professoress of whist for them, and cause them to be well-grounded in that great and useful game. You cannot learn it well when you are old, any more than you can learn dancing or billiards. In our house at home, we youngsters did not play whist, because we were dear, obedient children, and the elders said “playing at cards was a waste of time.” “A waste of time,” my good people! Allons, what do elderly home-keeping people do of a night after supper? Darby gets his newspaper, my dear Joan her missionary magazine, or her volume of sermons, and don’t you know what ensues ? Over the arm of Darby’s arm-chair the paper flutters to the ground unheeded, and he performs the trumpet obligato qui vous savez on his old non. My dear old Joan’s head nods over her sermon, awakening—though the doctrine may be ding, ding—can that be 10 o’clock? It is time to send servants to bed, and to bed master and • mistress go, too. But they have not wasted their time playing at cards, oh, no 1 “Not play at whist? What a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!” were the words of the great and good Bishop of Autun, A young min writer: “Dr. Guvsott s Yellow Dock and Sarsapai ilia cured me of nervous debility, w eak urinary organs, disturbing dreams, etc., after I had tried a dozen doctors. I think the fact that it is a s re cure for nervous debility should begenerally known. It may save many useful lives. ”