Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1904 — Hairpins. [ARTICLE]

Hairpins.

M We buy hairpins by the hundredweight and sell, In one form or another, about three gross a day.” said the foreman of the notion counter in a department store. “A woman with three or four grown daughters buys her hairpins by the pound, and buys a good many pounds In the course of a year at that. Where there is only one woman in the house she buys her hairpins by the package, put up in some fancy and convenient shape. The latter way is the more expensive, of course. Women with hairpins are very much like men with matches. Some shed them as they go and never can find one when they want it. Others keep them where they can find them and usually have to make up for the forgetfulness of their less careful sisters.”—New York Press.