Card table, one of pair

Card playing proliferated at the beginning of the nineteenth century and generated the production of numerous pairs of specialized card tables. While many Americans participated in this refined pastime, some felt that it led to corruption and idleness. Mrs. Lyman of Northampton, Massachusetts, wrote in her diary in 1800, "As an amusement Cards may some times be admissible but when we become so attached to them as to think the hours tedious till evening arrives that we may be playing them I think they then become criminal."
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