Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-08-08
HATp1Ns AND BULLDOGS.

Consider the hatpin and the bulldog but first
the hatpin, because it is so often considered
merely as joke. The bearing of the bulldog,
as Captain Cutie would remark, is in the APP
plicatiOn thereof
Why do women wear hatpins? Presumably
because they wear hats that don t fit their heads
and have to be held on. No has yet had
the temerity to suggest that woman's hats should
fit. He knows what they cost him now, and
shudders at the thought of any additional feat
ures. A woman would answer the question by
saying: Because it is sufficient for to
appear ridiculous when chasing its hat
Granted, then, that woman's lid must be
held on the question is, How? Glue, being cal
culated to spoil a couture, is not to be consid
cred Pius--woman IS born with an instinct for
the of pins-are all that remain.
Very well, let the genus pin passit can al
ways do that even if mere man is not always
able to pass the hatpn. The issue is then how
long and, therefore, how deadly?
We regulate the projection of cOrnces
the streets Why not regulate the far more
dangerous projection of the hatpin? For
crushed by the fall of a cornice a thousand
manned by the lethal weapons of modern mil
lnery.
The law provides punishment for carrying
concealed weapons-there would be no objection
to the hatpin if it were concealed-and also
limits the length of blade that can be carried
prevent deadly instrument being disguised as
pocket knife
Why not also decree that deadly instru-
ment shall not be disguised as an article of
millinery? Better still, since woman revolts
against limits to- the length she can go in
anything order that foil or button, as in
fencing. must be attached to the stabbing point
Some weeks ago Rev. DR.. Yoakum while
bending bed administering comfort to
dying man, was badly pierced in the temple by
the hatpn of q woman, there also for the pur-
pose of sympathy. AS the Scriptures say moth
ing about turning the other cheek to a hatpn
he went out and started crusade against tie
weapon.
The other day San Franciscan was jabbed
in the eyes and his sight endangered, the woman
in place of apologizng. just smiling sweetly
and passed
And now comes the bulldog, who also should
be muzzed, if not with all other dogs prohibited
the public streets.
That instance of the horse being mangled op
Eddy street is almost too revolving for discus
sion. In a sense man owes the bulldog an
apology, as he owes one to the pig. The hog
gishness of the hog is not due to the hogs own
gluttony. but to that quality in the who first
bred it into him for their uses. Similarly
the bulldog we know him, was developed
for the sport of man, that Of bull batting
But here he is and he should not be al
lowed out without a muzzle 1t may seem eX-
travagant to dog fanciers, yet it is fact that
dogs the street a menace and nuisance
in variety of senses. many of which 10 not
! call for mention here.
In the country they as suitable walking
companions they for our ancestors living
! under more primitive conditions but in city 5
| streets there is room only for and the non.
carnivorous horse. and his days mum
hered for the larger cities
Meantime the unmuzzled hatpin and the
unmuzzled dog must go. = San Francisco
! Chronicle