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Mr. Peek, you made a very good beginning—especially speaking in general. You just don’t know 'Rappahannock.
f> You see, sir, here the folks—*• in addition to the sterling qualities^
your regular rural Americana—haven’t lost ,the arts of gracious living. It is not necessary that we pay someone to entertain us, though we can enjo(y such to the same extent as our urban neighbors.
The art of conversation is not lost from Rappahannock. The men will tell you that an evening around the ^tove with a few genial companions is as satisfactory ad the accompanying “chew” or pipe. The genial wit and sharp mental stimulus of a discussion would astound same urbanite who might judge solely by appearances and think the group uneducated and unfashionable.
ladies, too, are leaooree* #01, entertaining and ■ charming, and those dainty, feminine packages also include minds and wits as sharp as their men-folk. They have learned long ago that they do'not have, to slavishly follow a fashion of another’s choice. They retain some of the pleasures of their grandmother*—quilting, superb hand-work, fancy cooking— and add any modern turn that they find suits theft" mode of living. ,
The people of (Rappahannock, Mr. -Peck, are the best in the world. As one lady put it: “If I have to be hungry, I want it to be in Rappahannock, because the' folks would see I didn’t starve.” ‘^Let a touch of hard-luck hit you,” states a man, “and watch your neighbors pour in»to help you.”
Yes, sir, Mr. Peck, give me Rappahannock, and you can have the rest of the world.
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