Beautiful day, same as Monday, 63. I finished cleaning wood house and cleaned house all through, had letters from Gerald and Mary Ann. David left 4am for Poughkeepsie for Timberland. Mrs. Thomas here at night for evening, we played 42. Madelyn's brother, Asa Allen died.
Comment: I never knew any of Madelyn Blakesley's family...Mom and the family loved to play 42..it was really Texas 42 and interestingly it was started by two Baptist brothers who were forbidden to play cards..."About 120 years ago, two boys from Trapps Springs (now Garner) were caught in a forbidden pastime: playing cards. Their parents burned the offending deck and whipped the disobedient youngsters, but this led William Thomas and Walter Earl to find a loophole in the rules. “In those days Baptists considered card-playing to be the devil’s work,” says Dennis Roberson, the Fort Worth author ofWinning 42: Strategy & Lore of the National Game of Texas . “But dominoes, for some reason, weren’t sinful.” So the enterprising boys replaced the cards with dominoes, invented a new game similar in style to bridge and spades, and dubbed it 42. Soon the game had scooted across Texas like an unhampered tumbleweed." and so I now know why it was not "sinful" for a devout Baptist to play 42...."Texas Monthly May 2008.
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