The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-11
The Universal Hair-Pin.

Is it the date-palm or the cocoa
nut tree TO which people are accus-
toned to refer as an evidence of the
wonderful way in which nature pro-
vides for the wants of men? This
able tree-whichever one it is-sup-
plies the native of the county where
it grows with food, drink, ropes,
clothing, husk mattresses, pins, nee
dies, cups and saucers, medicine,
liniment, fans and hundred other
useful articles. 1t is undoubtedly q
useful tree, but why should we 90
to the tropics in search of proof OF
bounties of nature when, at our
own doors, and, in fact, inside o;
most of our doors, there can be
found a far more wonderful exam
pie of natures benefcence? What
is the date palm or should we say
the cocoanut-tree?) in comparison
with the girl of our species who
tloss oms throughout the year with
abundant and constant crops OF
hair-pins? The uses of the date
palm, or the cocoanut trees, may be
many, but far more numerous and
important are the uses of the hair
pin, and we cannot feel too grateful
to nature for having furnished our
girls with so inestimable a gift.
The hair-pin rarely makes its APP
pearaIce until a girl has reached
her 18th year. From that time on
ward every healthy girl abounds in
hair pins, and a girl without hair
pin is the rarest freak of nature.
The most obvious use of the>h hair
pin is to fasten the hair to the head
of the wearer. The back hair is al
ways spiked on with from six to
twelve hair pins, which hold it so
firmly that it cannot be detached
until the hairpins are all with
drawn. In like manner the bonnet
is pinned to the hair with hair-pins.
| Unlearned men have often won
dered how it was possible for n light
straw hat to keep its place on the
summit of a pyramid of hair, from
which the slightest breeze ought,
apparently, to be able to blow it off.
The hair-pin is the solution to this
mystery. Being made of the fin
est quality of wrought iron, and
strengthened by paint with as
much care as the elevated railroad
| piers, it can defy anything but a Cy-
clone; and a bonnet fastened with
half dozen hair-pins becomes as
much a part of the wearer as is her
| back hair.
But there are many other uses to
which the hair-pin can be put. 1t
| is an excellent button hook. The
man who is within reach of a con-
venient girl can always button his
CATERS and fasten his gloves with
the aid of a HAIR pin, and is thus
freed from that slavish dependence
on button hooks which is otherwise
the inevitable fate of the man who
wears buttoned CATERS. Women
also use the hair pin as a substi
tute for the gimlet. When a wo-
man wishes to make hole through
a piece of cloth or pasteboard, she
quickly accomplishes her purpose.
Two hair pins properly bent form
an admirable substitute for a clasp
or buckle, and it is said there are
certain articles of dress in the shape
of narrow bands fastened with me
tallic clap from which the clasp is
frequently lost, and which would
thus be entirely useless were it
not that the place Of the missing
clasp can always be quickly sup
piled with pair of bent hair-pirs.
The hair-pin is also an admirable
thing with which to mix medicine
or to STIR lemonade. 1t is believed