Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1905 — That Deadly Hatpin. [ARTICLE]

That Deadly Hatpin.

That deadly implement, the hatpin of modern times, is a descendant of an equally formidable toilet article used by Reman women. The Aspasias and Julias- and Claudius who decked themselves a couple of thousand years or more ago, to the undoing of the particular Balbus or Marcus they desired to fascinate, wore bone hairpins of prodigious length. Yet, like the women of this present time, they seem to have experienced the same difficulty in keeping them in place. This fact came to light during excavations at Silchester, in England, a hundred or so of these bone hairpins being found in the ‘Roman bath, collected, maybe, by the bath attendant, to prove all these centuries later that there is nothing new under the sun, and that in all ages the same little foibles have been possessed by women;