The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-06

With hatpin at sometime in your life," death. - The man utterly ignored her levity. We'll what sort of hatpins should a perfect lady wear?' shouted out one of the older members of the little coterie. coming bravely to the girls rescue. Tn the first place, to my mind a perfect
 lady doesn't wear loud hatpins," he said
 No. they've gone out, and the Joan Sawyer combs have come in," suggested somebody in the crowd who hates the aforesaid combs like a game bird hates a red dog.
 Nor does she wear the nervous kind,' the man went on oblivious of the litter
 that had been aroused by the young wom-
 ans remark, that tremble in the air
 like an aspen leaf in the breeze. A perfect
 lady never wears hatpin that sticks
 out two or three inches on the other side
 of her hat, ready to poke out the eyes of some poor, unsuspecting individual who happens to come within it's range' You are way out of date" said one of
 the tiniest girls in the group" All the
 hats pull down over the ears these days,
 and they do not require a hat pin least
 of all the long kind that poke you" Well, I'm not as out of date as you
 might think the man defended quickly. T happen to know that many hats these days do require hat pins and when the present styles came in It was powerfully hard to find short ones. Of course, now everybody has them, but sometimes they are as formidable in the tiny hats that are worn now as those yard long used to be-,
 Il guess l got my hatred of hat pins'
 the man continued, when those great, big
 door knobs of rhinestones used to be the
 rage. l remember once seeing girl with hat pin on which was made of
 1r,n ax-x
 raded gaily enameled chantecler. In
 fact, I went to a vaudeville show one
 evening and the only seat I could get
 was in box. I left after the first skit,
 remember. Every woman in the box
 and there was only one other man besides
 myself kept her hat on. I'm not crti-
 the group, ESQ they won't have to take
 on hats In boxes. know that
 That's why most women spend their
 good money on box seats,'' said one of
 the group" so they won't have to take their hats off"
 Well at any rate,' said the man,
 they kept their hats on, and I being
 man, had to sit in the back of the box and all I saw was just flourish of feathers and ribbons and big rhinestone hat pins, and l was scared within an inch of my life for fear I'd be iabbed to
 death every time one of them turned around.''
 Was that your first look in at hat pins?" asked one of the girls. Practically said the man. q mo- ticed that there wasn't a normal hat pin in the box. If I were asked to draw picture of a badly gowned woman, I'd conf1ne myself to her hatpins.' But as for going so far as to say that she's not a lady if she wears gandy or you are entirely out of date said one of older women, 'I think that's putting it little too strongly
 'They are the straws that help one to size up person and to decide whether ! she's lady or not, in my opinion." He stuck steadfastly to his text. You are a has been, an old fossil; | you are entirel yout of date" said one of the younger girls who suddenly iabbed | her hat on her head without even so much as pinning it. Perfect ladies don't have | to wear hat pins these days-that is. if they want to be in style. You'd better | find some other way of discerning whether she's a perfect lady or not that | isn't so hopelessly out of date.' | But
 l Up to the present time the man hasn't taken back word that he said.