Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-02-15


the family severely us that nln !
see In the front of your blouseg How
many times must I ten you Caroline,
to sew on buttons and aooSs and never,
never pin yourself togetherl Some
times wish there wasn't such thing
as a pin in the worldw
"Huh r shifted Caroline. aJust one
little pln-and you can hardly see it, /
don't see why you make such a fuss Y
'No doubt" said the father Of the
family. bursting into the conversation,
you d0n't, Dut there Is a great and
basic truth underlying your mothers
frantic efforts to save you. The truth
is that men don't like girls who use
pins instead Of needles and thread.
Men like peace and quiet and solid,
dependable surroundings and 1t upsets
them frightfulIy to be made nervous
and harried.
"A'girl who pins herself together GER
talnly Is not dependable.
"For Instance" continued the father
Of the family Il was terribly 10 love
with girl when / was an exceedingly
young man. l think l was about nine
teen and | was merely filing In the
time until your mother came along
when 1 was twenty-five and had at.
tanned horse sense.
"The minute I laid eyes on Isabel
surrounded SIX deep by my friends. ]
knew I had met my fate. she WINS one
Of these ethereal, fioaty sort Of crea-
lures who You expected would fit
away on moonbeam or something Ike
that. There always were lacy scarfs
and tulle wisps and ribbons waving
about Isabel and she was a regular
dainty little creature to look at Yet
the boys seemed to get over their fond
ness for her very quickly. They would
say, oh, yes, Isabel was o nice enough
girl and awfully pretty-but had you
seen the new girl who had just moved
IN down on Hopkins street in the house
with the cupola?
Invariably after being in love with
Isabel they seemed to turn instructive.
ly to strictly tailor-made young won.
en-. 1t was because the tailor-madel
kind absolutely cannot use pins. That
was the trouble with Isabel. That girl
literally pinned herself together and
she had a special brand Of pins with.
out any heads on them, judging from
the way they showered out She would
start out at dance looking like a
fluffy angel, with a white tulle scarf
draped around her shoulders, and at
the end of the first waltz her partner
would have to do a football dive I'M
der the ironshod feet of his friends in
order to rescue the dragged remains
of that tulle.
Il never knew another girl who hated
buttons so thoroughly as did Isabel. AT
first you wouldn't notice that she had
carefully stuck pin in at each spot
where a forlorn buttonhole waited pa.
tlently for its absent button, but things
eventually broughtit to your attention
That was the era when dresses but.
toned down the back There was o
young man calling on Isabel one lovely
summer evening and as they sat on the
broad porch seat his arm accidentally |
fell Off the railing and its impetus was
sufficient to cause 1t to wind about her
waist.
"When the people down on Main
street got the echo of that yell II
caused intense excitement. zed Sim.
mons, who was in the middle of
funny story, nearly bit off the end Of
his tongue he stopped so quickly, and /
Judge Belmont let the front legs Of his
chair come down SO suddenly that the
BARRIERS dog had no chance at all and
to its last day wore that hole punched
through its ear
''You see, there We're enough pins in
Isabel's belt and waist generally to
sink a battleship and that unfortunate
young man got every last one Of them
shoe into his arm clean up to the hilt.
Isabel's mother and her father and her
little brother and the hired girl and the
hired girls girl friend and one or two
all came running and 1t took
all of them to pry the young man loose.
"You do not need to have me tell
you that this was a most horribly en-
barrassing situation, especially as his
arm in lighting where 1t did had been
activated purely by accident, and his
efforts to explain to Isabel's father be-
tween yelps of pain, so to speak, were
very pathetic. He never went to see
Isabel again and she eventually mar
ried travelling man, who after he
married her managed to travel S65
days every year, leaving her lonesome
and pining, all because he couldn't
stand looking at so many pins bursting
forth. So you see"
maybe she didn't like him much,
anyhow, and didn't care" said Caro-
iva houaf,,lly, actiIi T ruocS n r,ight