AN IMPROVED METHOD OF KEEPING THE SCORE .IN 



OUPUCATE WHIST, COMPASS WHIST, STRAIGHT WHIST ANO [UCHRE, 



since Duplicate and Com- 

 pass Whist have come into 

 fashion there has been an 

 unprecedented revival of in- 

 terest in the game, due to 

 the fact that mere luck is to 

 a large extent eliminated by 

 a comparison of the scores 

 made in the play of the same 

 hands by different players. 



The one thing needed to 

 perfect the new method has 

 been a convenient device 

 by means of which the score 

 made on the first round can 

 be concealed until after the 

 replay of the hands, as a 

 knowledge of the first score 

 often enables a good player 

 to make a decisive gain, and 

 matches are lost and won on 

 just such little chances. 



A Washington player has at 

 length invented and put upon 

 the market at a very low price a 

 little device which admirably 

 answers the purpose, and at the 

 same time serves as a pretty 

 and useful table ornament, 

 marker, and pencil rest. It is 

 called the "Cosmos Counter," 

 and consists of a little polished 

 wood tablet with a metal key- 

 board that can be clamped down 

 on the score in such a way as to 

 bring 24 little metal plates over 

 the 24 spaces in the "score" 

 column of the card, for use in 

 concealing each first score as 

 soon as recorded and until the 

 hand is replayed (in duplicate 

 whist) or the entire series fin- 

 ished (in compass whist). 



Whist players will at once see 

 the advantage of this new 

 method of keeping the score, as 

 it effectually prevents their op- 

 ponents at the same or another 

 table from taking advantage, 

 either by accident or design, of 

 a knowledge of what the hand 

 is capable. The trouble with 

 duplicate whist, especially, is 

 that the replay is liable to be in- 

 fluenced by memory of the cards 

 and score, and anything that 

 helps to confuse such recollec- 

 tion is a great gain to fair play. 



The " Cosmos Score Card," 

 prepared for use with the 

 counter, shows several new^ fea- 

 tures, such as a heading for both 

 Duplicate and Compass Whist 

 and (on the reverse) for Straight 

 Whist, Euchre, &c., thus ena- 

 bling the same counter and score 

 to be used for any game of cards. 



Cosmos Counters, with tablet 

 of quartered oak, maple, or 

 birch, and metal in either gold 

 or silver finish, 50 cts. apiece ; 6 

 for $2.75 ; 12 for Is ; by mail, 4 

 cts. apiece extra. Cosmos Score 

 Cards, 25 cts. per package of 50 ; 

 12 packages for ^2.50 ; by mail 

 free of postage. 



Ask to see samples at any 

 stationer's, or order direct Irom 

 the General Agents. 



E. MORRISON PAPER CO., 1009 Penna. Avenue, Washington, D. C. 



