The age-herald., 1898-01-16
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tism from 1t. She cried about brother who had been killed by accident. The first time I was deeply sympathetic, for. of course I thought the accident had taken place within the year, but it turned out that he had been dead for seven years and that there never would have been an accident if he had been sober She used to talk after this fashion: Shall fit the skirt smooth, ma 'am?-he was me own brother, bright young fellow that might but for his trouble-Would you rather have a hook, ma 'am?-have got on in the world and been a credit-I'll face the sides with silk-to all of his people on both sides of the water He was beautiful corpse, and we gave him-of course you could button it down the front-a wake that was the talk of the 1ieighborhood for months afterward, and it took three-well, ribbon might do. but I never liked those loose ef ts-dispensary doctors to straighten the men up so that they could show their proper respect for the remains" After this she would break down utter ly and weep on my bare shoulder and excuse the fact that it was in the rain by saying that she didn't want to stain the stuff. She was a woman who really enjoyed herself. She knew the absolute bliss of sorrow, and she comprehended thoroughly how sublime thing it was to suffer herself and to make her cus- toners suffer with her. 1 was forced to give her up, not because she was not good dressmaker, but because from constant sympathy my nose was get ting so red that I was afraid some tenn | l r1nv me. acting, of course, under a misap- prehension. But there was no doubt that woman was fine. She put a pock- ct in your skirt, and in a cloth skirt
 she always put two pockets. Pockets and independence are a natural combi- nation and giving two pockets to wo- mankind, and these two pockets near the front where she can reach them, makes her feel as if this were indeed free country With the possession of pockets I have discovered that woman is an accumulative animal. In one of my pockets at the present time there are a handkerchief, a watch, a calendar, a letter, two newspaper clippings. three gum drops, four cloves and the picture of a baby. In the other one are four i 10 cent pieces q am keeping them to put in a 10 cent bank), a lot of pennies, a bunch of keys, glove buttoner, | torn veil, two hairpins, a religious poem | and a recipe for making chicken curry. 1 Who can beat that? I had safety pin,
 but lost it. However, you cannot put confidence in a safety pin, for it has
 way of being safe or unsafe, according | to it's fancy But you can always rely
 on a hairpin. I do not know of any,
 thing to which hairpin is not a yalu- | able assistant.
 have seen a lock opened with hair 1 pin.
 l I have seen a gas burner cleaned with
 hairpin.
 I have seen lace curtains pinned to-
 gether with a hairpin.
 I have seen a stocking fastened with
 a hairpin.
 I have seen heavy portieres looped by hairpins.
 have seen hairpin used as a book
 mark.
 have seen hairpin held in the gas- light and then used to darken the eye brows.
 I have seen hairpin dipped in red
 stuff and used to color the lips, while
 as for buttoning shoes, crimping bangs.
 picking nuts and cutting books a hair
 pin is invaluable. We can do without
 politicians, we can do without suffra-
 gists. we can exist without whisky
 and live on comparatively little money,
 but hairpins are a necessity to the na-
 ton. Without them a woman feels
 that she is indeed helpless creature.