The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-01
Montgonlery Ehapter of sBelles,
 Blaux and Brains of '6Os'

The I0urth cnaptoF ot o'' peouA and Brains of the sos" T.. c. De Leon. now running in Tn| Topics. is called "A Nations Nurfy." and Is devoted to Montgomery.
 There are several pictHes of noted bellies of that early day the cradle of the Confederacy." hong them those of Mrs. Emmett eibels. Mrs. Eliza Banks, Mrs. Spenf Marks and Mrs. Joseph Hodgson. ese pictures are especially interestin as they are taken in the costumes vogue in the sos. One can but miss pc picture or the first White House t4e Confed- eracy, though in come oI with the article is used that oI second White House in Richm
 The chapter follows;
 ''The entire nation W w. Every thing had to be done. who so cap- able-they being the ees-as that swarm of wornouts Id gsts and sub terraneans' who, hg thoroughly exploited the old sck." now gath Ev .se sYnssssz..ed h those ,,,, . clean birds. pIi lg bleared eyes at any chance bif netting foul bills to peck at carri Tom the departmental sewer.
 Nightly corridor of the Ex- change Hot as a pandemonium; It's every fiaga rostrum. Slowness of organixs the weakness of Con- gress, secs h Of the border States personnel he cabinet, and especial. ly the lat army appointments, were canvassed th heat, equaled only by ignorance Most incomprehensible of ali was diametric opposition of men from tht ame neighborhoods in their views of ly subject. Often this would be vi one of policy or of doctrine yet th neighbors would quarrel more b1$riy than would men from op- posite ders of the confederation.
 ..rwo&seas, however, seemed to per wade aM classes. One was that key stone dgma of secession. Cotton if king" ie other that the war-did one come- ould not last over three monthb The mani who ventured dis sent fEom either idea, back 1t by wba, logic he might, was looked upon as an Idiot If his disloyalty was not broadly hinted at
 x"Fkw looked upon war as certain Yet there had already been a quas dechration and overt acts were of fre- quSnt commission. As the States SC. ceded. they seized the United States arSenals with munitions, the shipping &hts and ali government property o& By permitting the officers to go or Wstr parole. The North was 4Eeady straining preparation te #esent these insults offered to the $ower and to the nag of the Union.
 T could comprehend these beliefs ir Rthe local mind of the South; but that khe citizens of the world now congre. Fgated at Montgomery should hold them. puzzled those who paused tc query If they really meant what they said.
 Socially, as removed from this seething influx. Montgomery was q delightful city. Her leading families were those cotton planters and mer. chants, few capitaiists. and many noted professional men and a large class of railroad and steamboat man. agers. There was a trifie too much superiority in quarters directly con necte5 with the State Government; bui that was now merged In the largeI Idea of nursing the National one. Thert had ever been much culture. more hos pitality and still more ambition, botf social and civic. Still, there was very much lacking of what the world ling expects of q metropolis. So Il was natural that the choice as a capi tai should turn the whole social sys tenn somewhat topsy tllrvy At th' same time and possibly as a sort ol escape valve for new sensations, thu townspeople grumbled loudly and long But the society proper plumed itseli afresh and put on it's best smile tt greet the select of the newly arrived.
 '"rhe fresh, frank and fun-lovine girls of the young set were certainly creatures of beauty. They were well educated, too, those inland and rather unripe bellies of the early sos, whether home taught or from Hammer Hall There was a spontaniety about then that was refreshing to the jaded taste satiated with conventienality.'
 Reversing Times opera glass upor that memory etching, many an olc fellow still recalls the girl I left be- hind me- at the first Capital. and many another recollection survived the SO ciety campaigns of Richmond. Charles. ton and the West. The Ida Rice CO lumbiad spoke for one Montgomery beauty to the ironclads in Charleston harbor; gallant and reckless Calhoun Smith having so -christened the gur after the well-reniembered beauty wht later married Henry Bethea. In snow -thatched shebang at Munson's Hill I heard reminder that the wal gave no more lovely bride than wher Miss Knoxie Buford wore orange pios' soms for Frank Lynch, of the famed old naval stock. When Miss Alice Vtviar came down from her country home she queened it with the tripled roy aIty of Venus, Juno and Minerva. Later she married General Quarles, whose social record proved him judge oi beauty. Who does not recall the handsome and vivacious Holt sisters' Miss Florence. as Mrs. Joseph Hodg' son. is now one of the most popular of Mobile matrons whose equally pop ular daughter has just become Mrs Julian Walters of laat city. Mrs. L. c Jurey of New Orleans, was Miss May Holt and her daughter is Mrs. Rich' ard weightman, so sought in the cui' tured circle of Washington. MISS Laura married William R. Pickett grandson of the famed historian, anc was as young almost, at Miss Hodg- sons wedding as her granddaughter who was maid of honor. pretty Flor ence" Davidson. Miss Eliza w. Pick ett married Major Edwin A. Banks and her daughter May married Frank B. Clark of Mobile. Their children are now rising in the law and the