Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-01-25
THE uRlouIrous HAlRPIN.


Bent Wire Useful.
The hairpin is an indispensable ar
ticle to a woman's toilet. She could
not get along without one A woman
may spend one hour in dressing, and
half the hour is usually occupied in
arranging the hair, which she skilful-
" twists into coils becoming TO her
face. and TO keep it in place she will
use about ore dozen hairpins.
A woman finds hairpin useful in
many ways, and if she is about to be-
gin that important operation of disar-
ranging everything-called house
cleaning-it is safe to say she wiz put
one extra pin in her hair and viii need
it before going far in her work mary
q crack, crevice and corner is poked
into with its head.
It is woman's most useful ally, and
with her skill in using it becomes
kind of combination tool that can be
used in many ways Sometimes the
key of trunk is lost, and tho inevita
BILE hairpin is used to push back the
spring and the lid is raised. While
scrubbing it is used in every corner to
poke out the dirt. In fixing up her
room she may want to hang clean cur
tains and finds the running strings
broken; she will take hair pin, stick
it through the end of tape and with
much patience work that hairpin
through the hem; the points may catch
in the goods twenty times, but she will
persevere, and eventually get it
through and go merrily on with her
work, as the hair pin has saved her the
trouble of going downstairs for bod
kin.
Many little things she wishes to
hang up and often has no tacks handy;
she win break off piece of a hairpin
and make it answer for tack, and
when bent into the shape of the letter
S it will suspend fancy articles from
gas fixtures, and by twisting the hook
Il can be made to hang just asdesired.
Some one gives great pull at the
door bell and breaks the wire; rather
than have callers knock or kick on the
door, a woman will hunt that break,
find it and take-a hairpin and splice
the wire, and the bell is in order
again. Sometimes the wire that binds
the ribs of an umbrella to the stock
breaks; this can easily be mended with
hairpin by stringing the wires on it
and moving the cap down andtwisting
the hairpin close, and it is done. A
woman, with the aid of pair of pin
GERS, can easily do this herself. The
hairpin often serves both as shoe and
glove buttoner House plants can be
kept in healthy condition all winter
by using a hairpin once a week to
loosen the soil in the pots.
1t is said that corns should never be
cut with knife, but whoever read
that corns should not be pricked with
a hairpin2 In this operation ladies
prefer hairpin to knife. Corks in
small bottles can be drawn by inserting
the points of a hairpin in the cork at the
proper angle and giving little pull.
Lamp wicks should never be trimmed
with knife or scissors. The better plan
is to smooth off the charred portion
with hairpin. 1t will insure better
light and the wick will last twice as
long. The hairpin can be bent into
frame for artificial cobwebs, which is
quite Christmas novelty.
If the steak or fish broiler or bread
toaster comes apart hairpin is all that
is necessary to make it serviceable
again. There is scarcely a lady but
carries a little hairpin in her pocket
book. 1t is a woman's little friend
and constant companion, and is ever
ready in case of an emergency when
other tools are not conveniently at
hand.-Philadelphia Times.