ABSTRACT

WHEN they have observed these tokens, wise parents make more careful arrangements concerning their beloved children's proposed marriages, to decide on a suitor's acceptance or rejection. There cannot fail to be some suspicion that from reprehensible gaming of any sort, whether chess, or gambling with cards or dice,1the way may lead to the wasting of property and livelihood that have taken a long time to acquire, and may even result in the sale of a man's freedom.