The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-02-20
PERSON.
E. L. Bonner B. Co.
Musings on the clothes-Pin.

Written for the NEW NORTHWEST.
In making wedding present one should
always present something useful. A nice,
new clothes-pin is pretty good. or course
the bride expects to allow the clothes-line
TO wear her clothes some.
The origin of the clcthes-pin, like that
of the North Amcri eau Indian, Is involved
in some doubt, aud. like the Indian. it does
not dress much.
A clothes-pin stuck on a mans nose looks
out of place yet, thus placed they are
sometimes quite useful In the presence
of Goldfish balls, for instance.
The clothes pin is very faithful to man.
While ne dreams the hours away the
clothes pin holds his shirt on the Gle thes-
line through the silent watches OF the
night It is just as faithful to woman, but
it takes more of them-her garments ia
king up more clothes line.
A thief cannot Brighten clethes-pin. 1t
is not tmid. He has to actually overcome
and remove 1t before he can get away with
the garment left in ITS charge.
Millions of clothes pins are made and
disappear every year. What becomes OF
them? Millions of men are made and dis
appear What becomes of them? Maybe
they are both clothes-pins.
The clotbes-pip will hold the snowy
white garment of the most beautiful prin'
cess and the dingy red flannel shirt, with a
big black patch on it, of the poorest labocer
with impartial grip. Nothing stuck uT
about clothes-pin unless when it Is stuck
up on the rope.
Many poets have seen the clothes-pir
swaying gracefully in the breeze; yet
there il no poem on it. think l will trJ
an ode to the clothes-pln myself when | &c,
back from the city.
Everybody can own clothes-p PIN. They
are cheap.
To put a clothes-pin, one that is younf
and has not lost its grip, on cats tail II
funny to boys. The cats emotions, how
ever, seem to be otherwise.
Clothes. pins are made Of maple. Tit
pins made nom one tree may, in commerce
be scattered to every cline. One pin ma!
grow lauguld under southern suns, while IT.
little brother, with which it grew up, ma!
BIO hoary with Arctic frost. 1t Is sad Il
think of family SO sundered.
Man made the clothes-pin in his own i'm
sge-two legged nd forked end down.
1t is singular how the ancients got along
and enjoyed reasonably good health. too
without the clothes-pin. But they all die
finally. The Queen Of Sheba and Cleopa
ira had to wiring out their clothes, cut
pole and throw them over it, to be dallie
with by the wanton breezes.
1 saw one boy put a vicious clothes-pin o
a sleeping boys ear. He never did II an
more. The sleeping boy was the biggest
A woman who had good many littl
children. thought she would make Their
useful and self-supporting. On wash da
she put them on the line for clothes-pin'
They went to sleep and fell off ut might
One of them broke his neck. neighb;
. asked her If she did not feel bad about !
She said: mo there are so many DOE
miss him."
One on firsG thought would not think
would be convenient at times to he
Z clothes. pin. What IL, when You have p'
the very last stick Of wood in the bend
your left arm that you can possibly carr
b the owner of the wood should rise up
the silyery moonlight on the other side
the woodpilep
; Some women will leave clothes-pins
the line from one washday to another Wit
j. out a stitch of clothes on them--l me'
the clothes pins. A woman cannot symp
thize with o clotbes-pin. She never rio
straddle.
The Colossus of Rhodes was quito
n clothes-pin. LOCK mELoSE'