The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-14
MUzzLED HATPINs NOT NEW.
But They Have Never Worked Salts
factori1yy.

'"The question of protecting the
ends Of hatpins is no new agitation
said a leading New York jeweIer yes
terday, discussing the announcement
that Nine. Jusserand is setting a new
style in Washington by having the
tips Of her long hatpins capped. In
the last two years some dozens or
more would-be benefactors of the hui
man race have tried to patent inven-
tions to remove the deadly danger of
the feminine weapon. Most of these
have been nuisances; not one has been
really satisfactory. Several devices
have found their way to the notion
counters of the large stores, but the
are such ugly little things that they
are generally ignored.
THE hest one of the many that
have come to my attention. contin-
ued the jeweler, lis a little cap which
may be plain to match the hat OF
ornamental to match the head of the
pin. This slips on over the point and
fastens with a safety clasp such as.
is used stickpins and brooches. It
goes very well for a few weeks; then
the trouble beginsi The continual
activity of the catch makes little hicks
on the slender pin; these catch in the
hat, and, if it be of velvet, generally
starts a thread or two and before long
there's a rather unsightly hole. Then
the nicked pin is very likely to catch
in her hair and pull it, and that is not
only uncomfortable but absolutely an
Initiating to good humor. Just i'm
agine going out with beautifully-and
extensively - marcelled locks, and
upon carefully removing your hat you
discovered that three or four hairs
have strayed from their rightfuI place.
It's quite enough to cast the densest
pail of gloom over the rest of the day
and EVENING""
There's another cap that has been
shift1ess contrivance, not at all up in
police duty, for it often allows the
wicked criminal to elude it's grasp and
go gay1y forth on an eye-putting-out
spree! This is sort of hinge and
jaw affair, quite ornamental If the
two ends-there must be two, as it
works somewhat like a mans necktie
clasp-are made to represent flower
petals or leaves or something of that
Sort
The safest thing, as far as ones
neighbors are concerned, is the double |
visibly inside the hat. These have |
been among the most successful dem |
onstrations in the big stores, we hear. |
But even they are not popular; they |
are not aestheticl
Somebody must invent something; |
According to the papers those in
quisitive hatpins are growing wicked
er and wickeder and some stop must
be put to their dangerous inquisitive
ness. 1t simply won't do to have
peoples eyes poked out indiscrinin-
ately! It's so unbecoming, to say the
least. And then, what's the use of |
being any more uncomfortable than is
absolutely necessary?
Boston has recently passed a law
G.
to wear a hatpin which projects more
than an inch beyond the crown of her
hat. Other cities have passed sim
liar laws-or mean to, when they get
timei Over across the water, too, the
question has been agitated, violently
at times, and the yardstick squad of
Germany, which goes around measur-
ing folks skirts and ties and coats and
to see if they fulfill the require
ments of the carefully tabulated laws
are very particular about hatpins.
That familiar German legend, streng
verboten applies to all hatpin points
which essay more than a maidenly
modest peep upon the outside world.
Doubtless many jewellers and other
real friends of humankind will be ca
ger to know just how Nine Jusser-
and's pin caps are made, and what
their effect is on her hat, her hair, her
temper, and her humanitarianisn. At
ter all wouldn't it be the simplest So
luton of the whole difficulty to just
cut off the hatpins so that they will
not project more than a half inch
or an inch at the most beyond the
crown of the hat? 1t really is not
necessary to have them any longer,
and this very simple operation costs
but a few cents
eff you buy your hatpins from us
we will cut them off short for moth
ing!" is the jewelers. parting promise.
After all. why not?-NeW York Sun