A WOMAN AND HER HAIRPIN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 111, 3 February 1908, Page 3

A WOMAN AND HER HAIRPIN.

Dear. Dominica,—Much as. I was 'impressed by your admirablo articlo on ."A, Man and his Pockets,". it did' not quite,convince me that one hairpin could be a tolerable':s'ubstituto for my. twelve pockets and their contents. But you shall read how I : was converted. I asked a lady, who had: read your article,.to■ lend me a hairpin, "as I,wanted: to sharpen my pencil. I thought that simple request, would show- her once ;fi>r all the pitiablo ineffectiveness of woman's'.vaunted tool, J implement, and weajjon.' , Biit' the' lady quietly- said; " Give mo tho pencil.";' Then, drawing a hairpin from the soft resting-place; which did it too much honour,-sho 'pne : point of it to break away a little-of the wood: from around tho point'of tho pencil—and I could use it. again., It was sharpened quite enough for riiy purposes.; I was answered, convinced, confounded. I will now believe anything, you,- may state qn tho. merits of. hairpins. My next l uso'.of the pencil which had been honoured by/this . r&hark'able demonstration shall " bo to subscribe myself . i . ■ i-v \ '< ■ THE "MEREST. MAN; : i P.S.—I take ail that back> I-;heard'the lady- ask for: the -loan of ;a .knife-to'-, sharpen her- fyes,-her): pencil. And her . coiffiire-,was jimpiy.bristling' with hairpins. Inconsistency, • thy .name is not - .: : T,.-'iil". M. • '.'There are -thirty-one uses of a;;hairpin, and seventy-three emergencies in which (it is of assistance."; ' .The sharpening )of ..lead pencils J surely comes- under heading. . A woman would .be ■ linwisoVit... she dug' away at .the: woodwork of a peijcil.vy?hpn a' man jivas near her .with a 'knife lhe_was ; willing to lend: DOMINICA. From •' , : a correspondentsigning "Femina" comes a circumstantial , account of; thp'-ielp a, hairpin-gavq her' in'^aniomer-, gency when her husband, with all his, pocljet?,. was quite'at a loss. It seems, .that; during, tho Christmas week'" Femina " returned late one night with her husbaricl from a : . picnic,, and found on arriving at'liomb.that;h6 had left tho latch-key inside the'pocket:;of the coat hanging up in his wardrobe!-../They' found a window into a small entry, open, but when they, climbed through, that, it was only. W find . the inner door, ;,Tiqs locked. ".Femina" tells how, by means of a hairpin,' isho ' succeedod'- in opening that door within livoVminuteSi" -It-is an interesting story,'biit " Dominica.!' fcels.;that, ; for : the-safeguarding of private property,■ jji'/ia best: no'tfto: .publish, tho 'account-of how it was done 1 . -