PAGE EIGHT tßlwe , MEEKINS j WOMEN AMONG US MHO WROUGHT GOOD FOR ALL I don’t believe I have ever seen thorn mentioned in public prints, but I have been thinking about them a long time. The Hat-Styl ers were a group of jprnng women who came into the Coastland in the spring and again- in the fall for a short time, and like the migi-atory birds of today, departed when the season was over, some never to return. Like migratory birds however, there was one now and then who remained and, in just about every instance remem bered, they have proved of ines timable benefit to the community where she made her home. Off hand I can think of com munities in five counties which were the better because some hat styler remained and married. In Wanchese, in Engelhard, in Co lumbia and over in Currituck County I personally know of some valuable womenfolks, unfortunate ly all of them now aging widows, who deserve medals for their community usefulness aside from their contribution to home mak ing. A half-century ago it was the vogue to make every woman’s hat to order. The foundation for the hat came from Baltimore whole saler's, and every country mer chant of consequence stocked up on spring and winter hats. In Balti more the wholesalers ran schools which trained young women from the nearby territory to come to the city and take courses in hat styl ing. Northern Virginia and Mary land furnished most of these stu dents. When a North Carolina country merchant sent out the call, the Baltimore school sent down a milliner for as long as needed. It was shocking to behold in those days the things that wom en’s fancy commanded for their hats. There were stuffed birds in all colors, swords and belt buck les, and a variety of grotesque ornaments which included all the letters of the arabic languages, the Hebrew and perhaps the orig inal Greek. There were swastikas, crosses of St. Andrew, the cres cent moon, the full moon, the stars. But by and large, women’s hats ran to birds; birds all the way up from the size of a humming hird to carrier pigeon, dyed in all shades of colon Some people today may wonder what happened, to end all this bird business for women’s hats. A business whicty no doubt brought many a dollar to farm boys across the land who trapped and slew the birds for market. Why, I’ll tell you. There was a Dutch immigrant boy named Ed ward W. Bok who rose to the powerful position of editor of the Ladies Home Journal. He waged a 1 unremitting campaign against the cruel slaughter of our feath e -d friqnds, and aroused so much public sentiment that women were frightened out of using the stuffed birds, and turned to other things of celluloid and brass. Mr. Bok is credited with having saved the birds, but he did the Coastland a great dis-service thereby, for when women could no longer indicate the wingspread or the angle of the bird on their hats, the demand for the hat-styl ers ended and they came among as no longer. But the few years when the hat-styler was in vogue were years of value to our little neighborhoods which was favored with their spring and autumn so journing. These young women being handy with a needle of course, it was readily assumed they were handy at home-making. They proved to be such. They were desired by the courting men of the community, particularly widowers with small children who were better judges of the worth of a woman than were the gangling swains who goggled at these new girls. I know of one exceptional milliner who married a widower with sev eral children, and proved herself a perfect mother for them. Beside raising a child of her own, she served her community and county well in religious and educational affairs. In all my rambles about this Coastland there hasn’t come to my attention a single case of a hat styler whose marriage didn’t turn out to the advantage of the com munity. It has also been fortu nate for us that so many teachers have remained as married women and reared families, otherwise we would have been faced with a de ficiency in blood supply, isolated as were our coastland communi ties. The teachers have been of tremendous value, but not so large a percentage of them com pared with the milliners in al ready knowing how to cook and keep house. Had hat-stylers equal led teachers in number and mar ried here, it might have been amazing indeed, the benefits to the succeeding generations of coastland people. vO'l'.V* «r.t * '* * DARE COUNTY SHARES IN HONOR*; -■* » TO ACTOR ANDY GRIFFITH Hr .jhil ' i' ,-•* Bill iH'V. *; '.,jpppllllilfSr*v A M Hr A JPPaB? aa £M ■HBk uggßgk &[_ .■ H „ , ''-v f IS-"--.-'. wfSf if RECENTLY, when the North Carolina Society in Washingt: n gave a blow-out in honor of Actor Andy Griffith, Roanoke Island’s most famous citizen and his wife Barbara, Ex-president Harry Truman was among the many distinguished peo ple who attended. Shown from left to right are David Brii.kley, radio commentator, Mr. Truman, Mrs. Emma Neal Mor rison, president of the Society, and Griffith. Dare County c laims considerable interest in Mrs. Morrison, the wife of Dr. Fred W. Morrison, eminent Washington lawyer, who spend their summers at their beach home in Kill Devil Hills. GRADUATES FROM TRAINING GREAT LAKES NAV'L SCHOOL; mr fliflSfß AHk f jfIcZHHH J . . jbhbbm sKtii • y -1 ( | GREAT LAKES, 111. (FHTNC) John F. Martin Jr., interior communications electrician second class, USN, who entered the Na vy in March 1944, graduated as honorman from Interior Communi cations Electrician School Dec. 12, at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, 111. He is the son of Mrs. Ethel L. Braswell of Route 10, Box 573, Texarkana, Tex., and the husband of the former Miss Iris Swindell of Swan Quarter. Martin received orders to ad vanced Interior Commuication Electrician School, also at Great Lakes. DRAINAGE PROJECT MEETS APPROVAL OF ROTARY CLUB The Engelhard jtotary Club; Thursday night endorsed a drain-' age project under the Small Water shed and Flood Prevention Act to I secure drainage for this tidelandj area. In other business actions the club discussed the possibilities of; erecting roadside tables in or near the community. Two West Hyde seniors from Swan Quarter provided the enter-j tainment. Rebecca Smith gave Joyce Kilmer’s “Tree” para phrased in dedication to Rotarians and Rosanna Carawan was emcee on an “I’ve Got a Secret” type of show, with Rotarians Harold Jar vis, Jr., Reginald McKinney, and Orville Ballance serving on the panel. The seniors were presented by D. L. Berry. The meeting was held at the En gelhard Hotel, Egbert McKinney, president. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING , -' - - 111 iTiliiiiuri electricity there is no danger of toe. 24th. For the entire brooding period the tem- The results of Mr. Bryant’s experiment were perature was below freezing. And on February go outstanding that many of the poultry men 18th, it dropped to 9 degrees. Yet, despite the in his area switched from other type brooders unusual cold, Mr. Bryant reported a survival to Electric Radiant Heat. percentage of almost 97 %.. A uc you* vepco RURAL representative What was the cost of keeping the chicks warm? for help in planning and figuring ' According to Mr. Bryant’s own figures, it came any phase of Better Electric Fanning. VIRGINIA ELECTRIC and POWER COMPANY ; . : -v! 'V-'• s '\\'t ; *'*•» ' • , > V : . .'\ ; ’•< y* * ~/ Mrs. Robert Best. The regular monthly meetings will be held at the Primitive Bap tist Church, beginning this Friday night through the week end. Elder George Trivathian, speaker. Mrs. Bill Quidley is convalesc ing at Albemarle Hospital, fol lowing an auto accident and ill ness. Bill was released after treat ment. The Quidleys have a new baby girl. Mrs. Roy Beacham, Sr. is im proving at Leigh Memorial Hos pital. Capt. Bill Perry, 97, is very ill in Albemarle Hospital. Albert Toler, U. S. Coast Guard, retired, is recuperating at Marine Hospital following an auto acci dent on the beach highway two weeks ago. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Henley this week were Mr. and Mrs. Jesse D. Bailey and son Butch and Mrs. Ruth Gallop, of Oceana, Va. Mrs. Viola Outlaw visited her mother, Mrs. Lucy Rogers. HYDE GUIDES AND FARMERS CALLED TO MEET MONDAY New Association of 50 Plans Vig orous Program for Betterment of Hunting Industry A meeting of the Hyde County Guides Association has been called to meet in the courthousei at Swan Quarter at 8 p.m., Monday night February 2, to further plans for. the program now being undertaken! by the group, the secretary, Joe Simmons of Fairfield said this week. All farmers of the county are urged to attend the meeting of this association, along with the guides of the county and others' who are vitally concerned with the hunting industry. “The object,’’ Mr. Simmons says, “is to try to give to our visiting hunters a bet ter package each season.” Some 50 guides have enrolled as members in this new association end at their meeting last Monday | some 45 attended at Fairfield, and| found not enough room. It was decided that the county seat .would be a better meeting place. Plans now are to form an active vigorous county unit composed of| citizens of Hyde County who are; farmers, hunting guides or others catering to the hunting industry. | “We invite all persons in Hyde who j are interested in giving a better package to our hunters,” Mr. Sim mons says. i The temporary chairman of the association is Coleman Davis of Lake Landing; Allen Ballance of Fairfield, Vice-chairman, and Joe a STRAIGHT BOURBON H 25 wrm 1 m n pi NT #s3so se i V • proop JAMES WALSH A CO.. INO. LAWRENCEBURG. INO. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1959 RETURN TO HATTERAS Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Schinke of De Vere, Wise, have come here to make their home, and to assist Mr. and Mrs. William Gibson in the operation of the Atlantic View Hotel and Scotty’s Restaurant. Mrs. Schinke is the former Sheila Gibson, daughter of the William Gibsons, and durjng early January, the Gibsons drove to Wisconsin for a two week’s visit to their ! daughter and nine-months-old granddaughter. The community is happy to have them back. Simmons of Fairfield, Secretary- Treasurer. pioneer’: 1 ' THEATRE ■ 1 MANTEO, N. C. I I SATURDAY ONLY JANUARY 31st * RORY CALHOUN I * in ■ I "APACHE TERRITORY" 1 SUNDAY : MONDAY | I"GI G I " , I From M-G-M f • TUESDAY : WEDNESDAY t I GARY COOPER "MAN OF THE WEST" » , THURSDAY : FRIDAY STEWART GRANGER 1 in I 1 "THE WHOLE TRUTH" , Hi Hi CUT OUT AND SAV HH H,