The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-04-29

Story With a Moral



eCons hele!p cr:ed the mother OF
the family severely. ~ that pin 1
see in the front O. yoy.f blouse! How
many times must teh YOU, Caroline.
to sew eli buttons end hooks and new
er, never pin yodfsc4 together! Some
times l wish there wasn't such thing
as a pin in the world"
"Huh!" shifted Caroline. Just one
little pin-and you can hardly see it!
! don't see why you make such a.
fuss!"
mo doubt" said the father of tie
family, bursting into the CONVERSATION,
"you don't, but 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 ana quiet and solid,
| dependable SURROUNDINGS and it upsets
them frightfully to be made nervous
and haired
"A girl who pins herself together
certainly is not dependable.
For instance" continued the faith
er of the family, 4 was terribly i'll
| love with girl when / was an ex-
ceeding young man. ! think | was
about ~ and | was merely filling in
the time until your mother came along
when l was rs and had attained horse
sense.
.aThe minute | laid my eyes on Isa-
bel. surrounded six deep by my
friends, / knew had met my fate. She
was one of these ethereal, floaty sort
! of creatures who you expected would
| fit away on moonbeam or some
thing like that. There always were
lacy searfs and tulle Wisps and rib
bons waving about Isabel, and she
was a regular dainty little creature
! to look at. Yet the boys seemed to
| get over their fondness for her very
quickly. They would say, oh. yes.
Isabel was nice enough girl and aw
fully pretty-but had you seen the
new girl who had just moved in down
en- Hopkins street in the house with
the cupcll9
"Invaria5iy after being in love
with Isabel they seemed to turn in
! stinctively to strictly tailormade
young women. 1t was because the
| talIor-made kind absolutely cannot use
pins. That was the trouble. with lisa
bel. That girl literally pinned herself
together and she had special psand
of pins without any heads on thsm
| Judging from the way they showeEed
| out. She would start out at a dtnce
| looking like fluffy angel with.
l white tulle scarf draped around her
shoulders, and at the end Of the first
waltz her partner would have to do )
football dive in order to rescue ths
draggled remains OF that tulle.
| Il meyer knew another glrl who
hated buttons SO thoroly as did Isabel
| At first you wouldn't notice that she
had carefully stuck q pin in at each
spot where forlorn butt9nhole waited
patiently for its absent button, but
things eventually brought it to your
\ attention. That was the era when
| dresses buttoned down the back. There
was young man calling on Isabel
one lovely summer evening and as
they sat on the broad porch seat his
army 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 1t
| caused intense excitement Zed Sim
mons, who was in the middle of fun
ny story, nearly bit off the end of his
tongue he stopped 50 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 thru its ear.
"You see, there were enough pins
in Isabeps belt and waist generally to
sink a battleship and that unfortu-
nate young man got every last one of
| them shot into his arm clean up to
the hilt, Isabels mother and her
father and her little brother and the
hired girl and the hired girls girl
friend and one or two neighbors all
CdAlO AuAAAAA6 eAA0 ~ AdOn I'll VI tuCAh
to pry the young man loose,
"You do not need to have me tell
you that this was most horribly EN-
barrassing situation, especially as his
arm in lighting where it did had been
actiyated 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 a 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 burst
ing forth. So you see"
Maybe she didn't like him much,
anyhow. and didn't care" said Caro-
line, hopefully. @Still. guess / might
as well go upstairs and sew on few
| buttOns-ilISt to kill time Reeausa /