Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . the hundredtongues has used them alltoo freely in reporting thewild dissipations of Mont-gomery in the nurserydays. Drinking there wasgeneral and sometimes deep,but somehow the constantexcitement of the new lifeproved antidote for itsbane. I recall the rare (LAURASNODGRASS) ^ascs wheu thehaWt pro-duced any blameworthy con-duct. The stories of gambling, however, are almost whollygroundless. All the South, and especially her westerly section,has been credited with love of reckless risks on the turf and atthe card table. Yet we never gambled to
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . the hundredtongues has used them alltoo freely in reporting thewild dissipations of Mont-gomery in the nurserydays. Drinking there wasgeneral and sometimes deep,but somehow the constantexcitement of the new lifeproved antidote for itsbane. I recall the rare (LAURASNODGRASS) ^ascs wheu thehaWt pro-duced any blameworthy con-duct. The stories of gambling, however, are almost whollygroundless. All the South, and especially her westerly section,has been credited with love of reckless risks on the turf and atthe card table. Yet we never gambled to the million limit, un-til our Northern brethren set the example, though we did playrather recklessly. I am quite ready to admit that any manwho loses a five, by too much confidence in the virtue of threequeens, is a gambler and should be haled from his club andpunished by law—moral and statute. I know, too, that theother fellow, who wins three millions on the rise of cottonwhich was never planted, or pork which was never pigged, is. BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF THE SIXTIES 55 a Christian gentleman, and should have his deserved andwell won villa, wife and automobile. These Southern scamps in the 60s gambled as they fought,man to man, and with what they had in their hands. Ifear I must admit that they did it often and that they gambled constantly at Montgomery is notfounded on fact. I speak ex cathedra. I was there andchanced to be thrown in with the fastest of the fast set. Therewas, as I say, much drinking and much jockeying for placeand favor, but the constant activity of the brain, the sus-pense, the keen contest and watch upon the foe crowdingdown to border and port, left no room for the real was different at Richmond, with her larger and moremixed population, but whatever their other sins, the suckhngpaladins and statesmen at the Nursery had higher stakesto play for than those they found about the green cloth. It was easy to distinguish the polit
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