Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-29
TONS OF HAIRPINS.
Money Made Out of Woman's Favor
lite Mechanical Implement.


From the Detroit Free Press.
Chow many hairpins does lady wear
in yearr repeated clerk on Wood
ward avenue, with smile. swell, that
just depends on bow many she loses.
Many ladies' SOW their harpins as they
go, while others are so careful that they
use only one box year. Then, 100. 1t
just depends on how many daughters
one has. We sell hundreds OF pounds
year-that is, of the plain kinds,
We've seen The time when we could pretty
nearly pay our rent out of our halrpln
trade, but since these fancy hairpins have
come into style that could not be done.
Then, too, this tad OF shingling off the
back hair makes difference. One can't
wear pins, you see, in short hair, and
with the hair drawn up on top one doesn't
need so many"
ave buy our hairpins," said another
dealer, "bY the hundred weight, and sell
gross day, that ia of the English steel"
How many do You sell at timer"
''Oh, we have any number of customers
who buy pound at q time. Ii lady
bas a family OF daughters pound lasts
only short time"
"N nat becomes of them?
"Well, you'll have to ask some one else.
That's cOnundrum yet to be solved.
They slip cut OF sight most certainly and
in the most unaccOuntable way"
"ls there no way OF making them so
they will be secure?"
"A good many ways have been tried.
Some think this crimped pin the most
secure. The silk PIN, a French invention,
which is covered with silk the exact
shade of the hair, stays in place better
Than the steel pin. There is wonderful
variety Of hairpius. The gilt, silver,
shell, inVisible-all these come in differ
ent sizes, and are light, smooth and COM
Portable. Then there are rubber pins for
dark hair and amber for golden locks.
There are great many fancy pms worn,
and this, of course, takes from the sales
OF the common kind"
wv nat hairpin do you consider the
best?"
''The English we prefer. rhe French
good, but the American are rough and
heavy. We never keep the American
hairpin. This year We are bringing
charming fancy pms for the adornment
OF the hair. MOonstOnes are very popu-
lar ald so are those OF tligree work of
gold, delicate as cnbweb, and floral pins
of exquisite beauty and butterflies,
in the pale gold and alloys
or the gayest t1nts. The deli
cate old-fashioned tortoise shell pins,
back combs, ale very fashionable for the
back hair. They are exclusively thin, but
very trall, and are as difficult to mend if
broken as eggshell china"
Making tour OF the Woodward avenue
stores, II was found that the sales of
hairpins Appropriated very closely at
eacn. averaging several hundred gross
every three or six months.
"As the woman's mechanical tool"
said male haberdasheT, married, by the
way. 1.-THE haiTpin is unrivalled. 1t is to
woman what a jackknite is TO a boy,
and 1t IS the only sharp-pOinted Instru-
ment that she can manage with skill.
With a hammer she pounds her fingers;
with screwdriver she jabs her hands;
but nairpin she can twist and turn luto
all kinds Of feminine family uses. With
hairuln woman buttons her gloves and
occasionally her boots, tears open her
let ers, cuts the pages of her latest fashion
book or magazine, draws out cOrks,
picks out nuts, pins up rip, tastens in
her flowers, makes up floral designs, pins
down her garden vines, fastens up the
curtains, unknOts a shoestring, mends
her JeWelry, suspends plaques, sticks uD
recti PTS cut with IL from newspaper
snutfs candles, scoops out her Vaseline
and ceans-well, uses 1t tor any quantity
of toilet purposes. If there is any one
article more necessary TO the comfort of
women for family use than the magic
hairpin, 1t isn't down in the directory.
"Fnere is luck. too, in hair pms. To
find a hair PIN ls a good omen, especially
if the points are turned toward you. That
simple position doubles the luck. To pass
one by without picking it up turns ones
luck. Do you know that just now there
is a fancy among young men for collect
ing hair pins. and 1t is said that several
young society gentlemen have an assert.
ment, picked up in different ways, and
which represent to them great deal OF
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