Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1916 — Horrors of War Growing; Hairpins Becoming Scarce [ARTICLE]

Horrors of War Growing; Hairpins Becoming Scarce

And here is another piece of news that will make the girls say “horrors.’* There's a shortage of hairpins. This war has just about put the art of hairdressing “on the fritz,” Hairpins have finally come in for their full share el attention. Having a long list of antique jokes about being a woman’s prime solution difficulties to their credit, the heretofore unassuming Uttle bits of erinkled-in-.the-inld-dle wire ha,ve at last come to the front and demand a dignified recognition. Now that there may h« a scarcity of them they are becoming cherished possessions. ' , |all coiffure builders have announced ttiat hereafter when women want their hair dressed tLmy ~must bring along their own pins dr there will be no elaborate arrangement of their crowning glory. And the explanation

for -this, worse than terrifying possibility was that the countries which hav«i always supplied the pins for milady’s coiffure are keeping all of their wire at home for ammunition.