Editor of Herald:
My Dear Sir: I heartily agree with the “OFFICE KAT” in last week’s Herald. The women who appeared before the county commissioners on the first Monday (in behalf of Miss Swindell) were not “flappers.” While I have only lived a year in Como, my work has brought me into contact with practically every white man, woman and child in Maneys Neck township, and so far I have found no flappers. But also, Maneys Neck has no county commissioner. However, she does have a live, flourishing community club, a club that has meant great things to the consolidated school and to the general uplift of the township, and in the words of one of its officers: “Next year it will mean more.”
If you know the meaning of “flapper” the women of Como, who are all women of culture, modesty and dignity, failed to run true to form on October the first at Winton.
If, however, “flapper” is one who flaps, the Como Community Club may in time be filled with flappers, for they all intend to flap votes next year. Thus with a proper representation on the board, it may not be necessary for them to go in person when they wish something at the hands of the commissioners.
I have stressed the high personnel of the Como gentlewomen because all but two of the ladies were from this section (a section hat has for over a century produced women whose charm, wit and poise of manners have helped to make glorious the history of Hertford County and tidewater Virginia and Carolina) and, too, while I do not profess to be upon the meaning of “flapper,” I do profess to recognize true modesty, culture and dignity.
All praise to those ladies, both from Como and elsewhere, who knew what they wanted and had the courage to go after it.
E.W. COOKE
From the front page of the Hertford County Herald, Ahoskie, N.C., Friday, Oct. 12, 1923
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