El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-05
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Caesars Wife May Have Found Hairpins in His Chariot
Phoenix Starts the Arizona Veterans in Patriotic Service

IJAIRPINS. those essentials OF the
{ i feminine toilette that get so
many married men into trouble
/ by dropping surreputiousiy into the
bottom Of their automobiles at
night when they are downtown
filling business engagements" said
Frank Fletcher. "are not new.
and the chances are that Caesar
and the men Of his time had as much
trouble as the average man Of today
from the things. ] came across book
on things o. this sort Up at the public.
library the other day while searching
on Information about permeain. car
bouiterOus ages and things OF that
sort that an oil man ought 20 know
and my eye fen upon something about
hairpius that interested me and,
doubtless win be Of interest 70 others
According 10 what 7 found In that
book, hairulns have been elaborated
as means OF decoration since the earli-
lest times Particularly beautiful is
the deiicaCg Of their workmanship.
gold pins which were found at Sa-
lamis, in Cyprus, and are now in the
British museum. Even more houdsome
were the Saxon pins Of later date,
with their shank Of brass. head OF
gold and establishment Of garnets
larger sort OF pins so conspicuously
and frequently mentioned in the Bible.
The instrument driven by JaeI
through the temple Of Sisera was
probably tentpin, while Delilah
fastened the web on samson's hair
with a pin or batten-
In the middle ages pins were a I
great fashiOn-iudeed a necessity. In I
France, and we have il on record that ,
IN 1857 1900 pins were removed from I
the royal wardrobe for Que OF the
French uriucesses- The convenience 4
was probably little later in reaching I
England, but in 1870 we hear OF queen I
catherine Howard Importing pins ]
from France
In 1850 trade underwent some con-
siderable changes, brass superseding I
iron, while at the same time the price \
was loweaed- During The reign oil
lanes / the metal pin came into fash 1
ION In 1917 a machine for producing
entire pins was Invented by an Ameri- ]
can, Seth Hunt but 20 remained for Z
Wright, OF Massachusetts,. TO I
patent, in 1924. the wonderful pin
making machine which is generally 1
used today
The book didn't say if they used I
different colOred pins in the old DAYS I
Tor different colors Of hair and I am
Tot sure ~ Caesar or Napoleon were
sFer caught with red ones iu the bot
oms Of their cars when their wives
lad brunei hair. but that is a minor
natter at this time"
"Our Great War Veterans associa-
ion, Of Phoenix. ARK. which was or
'anized In February OF this year. and
which now consists Of over 500 mem
ers, ls the best Of its kind in the
said Capt. Claude Decatur
ones, aide 70 the governor Of Arizona.
It consists Of five large rooms hand
omely decorated, with a library. a
iano, pool tables. and other conven-
ances- and has a fund OF $1,000. given
~ citizens Of the city, 20 finance ft
nth IL Is self supporting. It's mission
S 70 perpetuate Americas part I'm the
reat war and TO aid fin all work OF
tate and national reconstruction, {
aving started by taking over the
oNernment employment bureau forI
aturned soldiers. For this work fiji
as permanent secretary whose SAL I
~ is paid by the city. Two members I /
sslst him. who are paid out Of the !
1ntributed fund The association has I
-ganized a band and has formed "a g
)mpany OF 100 workers for the Vic :
lry loan. The patriotic and n0npo-
teal principles Of the club are great q
appreciated by the citizens OF