WHERE DO PINS GO?

Evening Star, Issue 18118, 7 November 1922, Page 2

WHERE DO PINS GO?

It has been stated on what is supposed to bo food authority that the worlds total I output of pins is at the rite of 200,000,000 a I day If so, it may seem surprising that the 1 world isn’t becoming carpeted with. pins. ; \v c know how easily thoy are lost—where |do they go .to? Most of them decay into nothingness, for, actually, tho pin is not such a tamo-defying object as it seems. Every pin dropped in a damp place soon turns into a few grains of rust. With new pins turned out by machinery in such immense numbers our grandmothers’ maxims about picking up pins .are forgotten; | but in the fourteenth century, when pins were first introduced, they wore valuable I articles not to be lightly lost, recalls ‘.Everyday Science' An old law permitted the sale I of pins on only two days in the year, tie 11st and 2nd of January. It was then tho custom of all tho womenfolk to buy their pine for the following twelve months. As ia still customary, they went to tliefr bus-1 bands or fathers for the wherewithal, *nd I hence the term “pin money.' 1