Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — A Useful Possession. [ARTICLE]

A Useful Possession.

What would the fair woman do without that useful little Implement, the hairpin? If she buttons her shoes she uses her hairpin, and who ever saw a woman button her gloves with anything else? Suppose a coin drops between the bars of a wooden foot grating of an omnibus! Does she soil her fingers as a man would, and then not get it! Certainly not! Outcomes the hairpin, and the coin is lifted out without trouble. If her shawl-pin is lost, where so good a substitute as the hair-pin? If she eats a nut does she take a pair of nutcrackers? Most assuredly not. The hairpin again. It is with the hairpin that she rips open the uncut leaves of a book or magazine; it is a hairpin wjth which she marks her progress In her favorite book: if a box or drawer key is missing, a hairpin opens the refractory lock as neatly as a burglar’s skeleton key would; and the feats of hair dressing that she will make a simple, bow-legged hairpin accomja'ish nearly surpass the belief of man. Altogether, it deserves to be classed among the great inventions of the world.