Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-01
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Newport and Saratoga, and have al
ready advance engagements, dates to
be settled moro definitely later at both
watering places. They are very par
ticular about the women they work for,
and stand upon references. They say
they can't afford, from a business point
of view, to have any clients whose ante
cedents and present standing won't
bear looking into. Rose and Marie are
bright girls, and will no doubt make "a
little fortune.
WOMEN AND HAIRPINs.
Nearly everybody-both male and
lives taken an interest in hairpins, and
have noted the evolution which has
taken place in hat necessary article of
woman's toilet. The other day | visited
a Broadway dealer, and casually asked
if there was Il very great demand now
a-days for the common wire hairpin.
There is always some demand for the
useful little article, " replied the dealer.
but the present style of Undressing
dispenses with the use of the wire pin,
and the advent of those large ornamen-
tai pins, now so popular with the ladies,
has tended to lower the demand for the
more common article considerably. |
manage, however, to sell about n ton of
cheap hairpins every year"
What becomes of all the hairpins?"
81 fear you will have to ask Nine.
Diss Debar for the solution of that
conundrum. 1t is one of those ques-
tions which, like the sphinX's riddle. is
likely to remain Unanswered for all time.
| can only suggest that perhaps the
hairpin goes the way of old bustles,
buttons, ribbons, and other discarded
articles of feminine adornmcnt. If it
were not for the innumerable uses to
which IA woman can put the simple little
hairpin it would have vanished into
history along with the high comb and
hoopslIirt. | don't believe there is any
tool which the average can
manipulate with such consummate skill
and dainty dizziness as the hairpin.
With "A hammer or sharp-edgcd tool
such as the chlscl Il woman succeeds in
doing little more than bruising or cut
ting her fair fingers, but place II hair
pin in her hands and watch the wond-
ers she performs. One who had never
before seen ii hairpin in the hands Of q
woman would never imagine that so
many devices lay hidden within SO small
IA bit of metal.
With the hairpin a opens
envelopes, fastens her dress, suspcnds II
calandar or picture on the wall, picks
llcI Ictth anu GUS upHfb llle leaves OF
her magazine or book. 1t becomes on
occasions an i~mprovised nut-pick, or
shoe and glo]ve-buttoner or is as
swiftly transformed into a hook, scoop,
or crank. Nor is this n complete cata-
lOgue of the manifold uses Of the mod
est hairpin. Necessity is the mother Of
invention, and SO the hairpin becomes
the tool of the moment for whatever
purpose the fair mechanic wills"
Then you believe that the hairpin
has come to stay -
Z" ] think it has, or at least it will re-
main until manual training forms part
Of the education of our girls in the
schools and colleges. You may rest as
sured, however, that the hairpin will
receive the attention of at least one
mere generation of women"
\ SCARLET PARACHUTE.
There vas quite n sensation on busy
Broadway about 8 O'Clock the other
evening. It was all created bya pretty
girl, with a pair of fair Marguerite
bralds hanging below her waist, who
fairly ilew up the street with "a scarlet
sunshade spread above her head. The
hootblacks shouted, AN. there! 'fraid
you'll get tunnedE" and a mOping mes