The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-10
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1897.

miner' 10 realize that another bunker"
/ 10 speak in going par.ance. looms up be-
fore them that requires both skill and
good luck 70 surmOunt, and that a false
start may prove fatal TO their chances.
The word pin money is not much used
nowadays, and when it is, is apt 10 De
used loosely. II is often employed TO mean
an allowance by a father or husband for
a daughters or wife's extra expenses. But
its proper significance is a woman's al
lowance for all her personal outlay, what
ever it may be. The origin OF the term is
somewhat singular. Long after the inVen-
ton of pins, in the fourteenth century,
the maker was permitted 10 sell them
openly the 1st and ID OF January only,
when the court and city ladies crowded
10 the shops to buy them, having been pro-
vlded by their fathers and husbands with
money for the purpose. After pins had
become plenty and cheap, women spent
their money for other things; but pin mon
ey remained in vogue.
The opinion, often expressed, that pins
We're invented in France during the reign
Of Francis l, and introduced into England
by Catherine Howard fifth wife of Henry
VIII, is entirely erroneous. In 1917, TWO
hundred years before the death of Fran
els, 12o00 pins were delivered from the
English royal wardrobe for the use of
Princess Joan, and fifty-three years later
the Duchesse d'Orleans purchased of Je-
| han le BrecOnnier, a pinmaker of Paris
several thousands Of long and short pins.
! besides 500 dozens of the English fashion.
showing that pins were not only manufac-
tured, but had gained a wide reputat ton
abroad during the reign of Henry " 1t is
estimated that hundreds of millions of
pins are used in the United States What
! becomes of all the pins is still a question
that remains unanswered and unanswera-
Bile.
The bicycle girl, says the New York Sun.
stood upon the Coney Island sands and
hesitated. She wore a gray felt nat with
a blue ribbon and a purple feather: a
red jacket that hoated behind her in the
breeze as she rode; a yellow waist and a
green skirt with a brown border at the
bottom. Her skirt reached to just below
her knees.
"Shan't we sit down here?" asked her
companion.
She looked down and then away Her
lips twitched nervously. and the toe of
one of her high-laced tan boots began TO
dig little hole in the sand. Her eyes
wandered across the white stretch of
beach TO the blue dancing waters sparkling
in the sunlight, and seemed fixed upon
the misty sails on the horizon.
"Or would you prefer to go further on?''
continued her companion.
Her proud sad gaze returned to land
and slowly roved among the groups of BIZ
cycle girls who were sitting squatted in
the sand. Their knees stuck out, their
legs were crossed their feet were tucked
away somewhere and their bicycle skirts
were drawn taut and trim.
Though I think that this is as good a
place as we can fnd,' concluded her COM
panion.
Her eyes opened wide. an appealing ex-
preston crossed her face, she made a
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the next moment she was seated on the
sand, squatting just like the others.
"Oh. isn't it delightful here? and isn't
bicycling perfectly grand?" she said, and
many other things, with happiness beam
ing from her eyes her face, her whole
being and words stumbling over one an
other on her tongue.
She had accomplished the difficult feat
of sitting down in such a way that her
short bicycle skirt concealed her ankles.