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Entertaining with cards (1900)

U.S. Playing Card Co · Cincinnati, O., The United States playing card co · leaf 58

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ss should be attired in calico and the host in linen duster or smoking jacket. The rooms may be lighted by tallow candles stuck in bottles. Appropriate playing cards are those with funny picture faces. The menu may consist of pork and beans, hard tack, coffee and doughnuts, served on tin or wooden… … Fortune=teIIing Party. A pleasant diversion for an evening's entertainment, especially on the lawn, is a Gypsy Party, at which a game of Fortune is arranged according to the convenience of the hostess. As perfect a representation as possible of a gypsy camp should be arranged.

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