Skat
The German Game of Cards (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Skat: The German Game of Cards

At Coblenz, where the Moselle River empties into the Rhine, the yellow floods of the tributary are for miles distinguishable from the blue-green waters of the "coupe des nations," as Lamartine calls the German river. Similarly, German social life, with its pastimes and characteristics, remains a distinct feature in this cosmopolitan City of New York, into which the stream of immigration empties its floods of Germans year after year. They become Americans soon enough, politically, commercially, industrially ; and Karl, Heinrich, and Hans are Charley, Harry and John, before they have mastered the language into which they are so eager to translate their names. But the best of them, the well-educated and gentlemanly, with no anarchist bent or other disqualification, do not socially enter into the American-life, as a rule, for a generation. Neither do Americans take cognizance of the real social characteristics of their new brethren in politics.

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