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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.
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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
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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.
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THE TIMES OF QUEEN
ELIZABETH S ENGLAND
Bv MYRTLE M. DANIELS
Those of us who love the Sir
Walter Raleigh Region of North
Carolina are easily entertained
with any information about Eliz
abeth’s England. Now one E. Bur
ton has written a (warmly re
ceived) book called “The Pageant
of Elizabethan England.” A re
cent review of the book went on
to say the expected things. Among
them were comments on the
princely splendor of their living,
gorgeous pageantry, glitter every
where, brilliant festivals, and
elaborate, expensive estates. Be
neath the surface was the con
trast, filth, poverty and crime in
sprawling, dark London, and be
yond it all, isolated villages with
their harsh, crude living.
Research for the book was done
with the help of old account
books in which were listed all
items purchased for the palaces
or castles.
• It is not difficult for us to
imagine a castle without plumbing,
or Elizabeth with the smallpox,
or E'izabeth with her very thick
very long, red tresses inhabited.
But the thing that stopped this
reader was “that heavy spicing,
designed to make tainted meats
palatable.” Spices, brought back
by Crusaders to the Holy Land,
were introduced Vo the English
long before the time of Queen
Elizabeth I.
We are becoming so accustomed
to refrigeration and abundant
living that the present generation
of students scarcely believe the
truth of how our ancestors man
aged their foodstuffs.
Young people know from his
tory that our own army in some
of the wars lost more men, as a
result of their eating spoiled
food, than were killed in combat.
Dried fruits, dried vegetables,
and dried meats were their main
stay until we had canning, a com
paratively recent undertaking,
the urgency of which was brought
about by wars. We cannot help
wondering how people used to get
along. And we are grateful for
all the improvements when we
stop to think about them.
Some of us recall the time when
in “the daily Island living” of
our section we made out with lit
tle canned goods and little or no
refrigeration of food. But there
was some compensation. Remem
ber the garden full of chickens,
the pig in the pen, and drying fish
high up on a pole? There was
also drying beef from cattle that
had foraged on the banks where
THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
they had eaten away ‘Mr. Mac-
Neill’s very last blade of grass.’
SPICES to make TAINTED
MEAT palatable! How fortunate
we rustics have been!
KITTY HAWK PERSONALS
M. M. Meekins spent Monday in
Norfolk.
Capt. W. A. Perry is a patient
in Albemarle Hospital. He was
visited Saturday by his wife.
Mrs. Orville Baum visited in
Portsmouth Sunday.
Mrs. Mary M. Best on Saturday
visited her sister, Mrs. Mattie
Miller who has been a patient in
Albemarle Hospital since Thanks
giving.
Mrs. Carol Rector of Kill Devil
Hills, has returned home from the
hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Baum of
Gloucester have returned to their
home after a visit here.
Mrs. Betty Pugh is on the sick
list at the home of her sister.
Bruce Best spent the week end
here with his parents, Mr. and
Lester Bryant shows vepco Rural Engineer Aubrey M. Whorley (holding thermostat)
how electric floor pad keeps chicks warm and dry.
ELECTRIC Radiant Heat Brooder
“Mothers" Chicks
Before deciding to raise broiler chicks as an to only 4/10 of a cent per chick for the January
additional source of income, Lester Bryant, of brood. His average for a whole year’s operation
Martin County, North Carolina, conducted a was only Kof a cent. This is just a fraction of
thorough investigation of various brooding the cost of other brooding methods.
methods. Mr. Bryant discovered other benefits, too. The
He chose Electric Radiant Heat Brooders area under the hover was completely dry at all
which provide heat from below rather than times. He never had to worry about clogged
from above. jets, soot, or carbon monoxide. And, of course,
The Bret brood of 5,000 chick, went in January "*“> 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.
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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
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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.
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