BACK in May, 1929, women were preparing to vote in the general election on the same grounds as their Lords and Masters for the first time. But, the then Archdeacon of Craven had concerns that the ladies may not take the business of elections seriously enough and he took to his parish magazine to offer some stern advice. Under the headline ‘fears for the flapper’, the Craven Herald reported how the Canon J F Howson was afraid there would be too many ‘giggling young women’ who would simply ‘kink’ with laughter on getting their voting paper for the first time. It was indeed a ‘horrible picture’ that was brought to mind, he wrote as he implored the millions of new women voters not to treat the 'Flapper Election' ‘frivolously’ and as a ‘sort of a joke’.