In a court on the Pacific Coast, not long since, it was decided that the Chinese game of “tam-tam” was gambling and consequently prohibited. In the course of the opinion rendered, the Court spoke in the following strain:—
“The coin of the realm, when used to play the game of ‘match,’ ‘heads and tails,’ ‘odd or even,’ for money or anything of value—a long and short straw when used to play the game of ‘draw straws’ for the same purpose—a ‘wheel of fortune’ or a ‘grab bag’ when used at church fairs or festivals or elsewhere to dispose of articles of value upon the chance of getting something for comparatively nothing, are each and all of them, so far just as much gambling devices as cards or dice can be. In short, anything which is used as a means of playing for money or other things of value, so that the result depends more largely on chance than skill, is so far a gambling device.”
And the same we duly commend to the notice of any church fair committee contemplating a device for winning money at a grab, the throw of the dice, or the result of a guess.—Christian at Work.