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A Cultural Snapshot of Old Warrenton "Of course in a community such as we have described the people of Warrenton and Warren County to be -- of good families, education, training and associations -- we should expect to find habits and diversions similar to those practiced by their ancestors... and now I will undertake to describe their almost necessary concomitant -- card playing. From the beginning, the men of the highest social life indulged in this vice. There were few professional gamesters among them, but in the gentleman class playing cards was the common diversion. "Old Sledge" or "Seven-up" was probably the chief game of chance; but the elite indulged in "Poker." The stakes were sometimes high, and serious and embarrassing losses occasionally happened, but as a rule, "the chips" were cheap and a limit was generally placed on the game. The idea of winning as an end or purpose was not thought of, as a rule; amusement, interest and excitement were the chief inducements of the game." Sketches of Old Warrenton |