The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-09
TONS OF HAIR-PiNS.
The One Instrument Which Women Car
Use with Deftness and Assurance.

The One Instrument Which Women Car
Use with Deftness and Assurance.
"How many hair-pins does lady
wear in year??'' repeated clerk or
Woodward avenue with smile. "Well
that just depends on how many she
loses. Many ladies sow their hair-pins
as they 60, while others are so careful
that they use only one box year
Then, too, it just depends on how many
daughters one has. We sell hundred:
of pounds a year--that is of the plain
kinds. We've seen the time when we
could pretty nearly pay our rent out OF
our hair-pin trade, but since these fancy
hair-pins have come into style tina,
could not be done. Then, too, this fad
of shingling off the back hair makes q
difference. One can't wear pins, you
see, in short hair, and with the hair
drawn up on top one doesn't need Sc
many"
''We buy our hair-pins." said an
other dealer. "by the hundred-weight.
and sell a gross day, that is of English
STEEL"
''How many do you sell at a time?'
go, we have any number of Gus
toners who buy a pound at time. II
alady has family of daughters pound
lasts only short time"
'.What becomes of them?'
swell. you'll have to ask some one
else. That's conundrum yet to be
solved. They slip out of sight most
certainly and in the most unaccounta-
BILE way"
''Is there no way of making them Sc
they will be secure?"
"a good many ways have been tried.
Some think the crimped pin the most
secure. The silk pin, a French inven-
ton, which is covered with silk the ex.
act shade of the hair, stays in place
better than the steel pin. There is q
wonderful variety of hair-pins. The
gilt, silver. shell, lnvisible-all these
come in different sizes, and are light,
smooth and comfortable Then there
are rubber pins for dark hair and
amber for golden locks. There are a
great many fancy pins worn, and this
of course takes from the sales of tha
common pins.
"What hair-pin do you consider the
best?''
The English we prefer. The French
are good, but the American are rough
and heavy. We never keep the Amer.
lean hair pin. This year we are bring
ing charming fancy pins for the adorn
ment of the hair. Moonstones are very
popular and so are those of tiligree
work of gold. delicate as cobweb, and
floral pins of exquisite beauty and but
terHies, in the pale gold and alloys OF
the gayest tints. The delicate old
fashioned tortoise-shell pins, such as
our grandmothers wore in high-bacs
combs. are very fashionable for the
back hair, They are exquisitely thin
but very frail, and are as difficult tc
mend, if broken, as egg-shell china"
Making a tour of the largest Wood
ward avenue stores, it was found thai
the sales OF hair pins approximate
very closely at each, averaging sew.
eral hundred gross every three or six
| months.
"As the woman's mechanical tool, ,
said male haberdasher, married, by
the way, 1.-THE hair-pin is unrivaled. Il
is to woman what a jack-knife is to 9
boy, and it is the only shart-pointed in
| strument that she can manage with
skill. With hammer she pounds hel
| fingers; with screw-driyer she jabs
her hands, but hair-pin she can twis
| and turn in all kinds of feminine fami
| ly uses. With hair. pin woman but
tons her gloves and occasionally hel
boots. tears open her letters, cut thu
pages of her latest fashion-book o.
magazine, draws out corks, picks on
nuts, pins up rip, fastens in the flow
ers, makes up floral designs, pins
down her garden-vines, fastens up th'
curtains, unknots shoe-striug, mendt
her jewelry, suspends plaques. stick
up receipts cut with it from a news
paper, snuffs candles, scoops out he
| vaseline and cleans well, uses it TO
any quantity of toilet purposes.
there is any one article more necessar
to the comfort of women for family US
than the magic hair-pin it isn't dow
in the directory.
.sThere is luck. too, in hair-pins
To find hair-pin is good omen, es
pecially if the points are turned toward
you. That simple position doubles tn
luck. To pass one by without pickin
it up turns ones luck. Do you kno'
that Just now there is fancy anon
young men for collecting hair-pin:
and it is said that several young societ
gentlemen have an assortment, picke
up in different ways, and which repre-
sent to them great deal of feminin
loyeliness ?'-D Detroit Tribune.