CHAPTER VII.

CARDS, CHESS, AND BILLIARDS.

Cards an Old Game--Origin, Asiatic--History--Horne Tooke and George III--Author confesses his Want of Knowledge--Cards the Gambler's Tools--Game adds nothing to Mind or Heart--Dangerous to some--Betting--Reasons against Card-playing--CHESS also Ancient--Origin--Play a Laborious Nothing--Wastes Time--Wastes Brain-power--Hinders Mental Culture--BILLIARDS--Big Marbles--How Played--Women can never become Experts, and Why--Poor Affair generally, 105