The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-13
MADE THE World
SAFE FOR INFANCY
The Safety Pin Inventor Deserves a
Great Memo
rial

Ligature of infancy, healing engine
OF emergency, base and mainstay of
our ciyilization--4we celebrate the safe
ty pin.
What would we do without safety
tinsg Is it not odd to think, looking
about us on our fellow men fbearded
realtors, circulating poets, plump and
rudy policemen, even the cheerful
dusky creature who runs the elevator
and whistles ooh. What Pal Was
Mary" az the clock draws near 9 p.
m. all these were first housed and
swaddled and made seemly with a pa
per of safety pins. How is it thar the
inventor who first conferred this great
gift on the world Is not known by
name for the admiration and applause
Of posterityf Was it not the safety
pin that made the world safe for in
fancy?
There win be some, mayhap. TO set
up the button as rival TO the safety pin
in service 20 humanity. But our hon.
age bends toward the latter. Not only
was IL our shield and buckler when we
were too puny and impish to help our
Selves nuN II II ht>p tlARN w az
ent) our symbol Of many hard fought
field, where we have campaigned all
over the white counterpane of a large
bed to establish an urchin in his prop
or gear. while he kicked and scram-
bled, witless OF our dismay.
Great is the stride when an infant
passes from the safety pin period 10
the age of buttons. There are three
ages Of human beings in this matters
~ safety pins, e. buttons, ~ studs,
or flor femalesl hooks and eyes. Now
there is no interim in the life of man
when he passes away from safety pins.
and. for n season knows them not
save as mere convenience in case of
breakdown. He thinks o. them, IN his
antic bachelor years. as merely the
wrecking train Of the sartorial system,
a casual conjunction for pajamas or an
impromptu hoist for small clothes. All!
with humility and gratitude he greets
them again later seeing them at their
true worth, the symbol Of integration
for the whole social fabric. Women,
with their intuitive wisdom, are more
subtle in this subject. They never
wholly outgrew safety pins, and
though they love to ornament them
with iewelry, precious metal and enam-
els. they are naught but safety pins
after all. Some ingenious philosopher
could write a full tractate on woman
in her relation 20 pins-hsirplns,
rolling pins, hatpins.
Much more might be said about pins,
touching upon their curious capacity
for disappearing, superstitions concern
ing them, usefulness Of hatpins OF hair
pins as pipe cleaners, usefulness of pins
to schoolboys, both when bent for FISH
ing and when filed to an extra point for
use on the boy in the seat in front
ihonoring him in the breech, as Ham
let would have said and their curious
habits of turning up in unexpected
places, undoubtedly caught by pins in
their long association with the lovelier
sex. But Of these useful hyphens OF
raiment we viii merely conclude by
saving that those interested in the pin
industry viii probably emigrate TO
for we learn from the Ency-
clopedia Brittainic that in that happy
island pins are cleaned BY being boiled
in weak beer. let is not be forgotten,
however, that Of all kinds. The safety is
the king pin.-New York Evening Post.