HAT PINS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 13, 16 January 1912, Page 2

HAT PINS.

BANE OP THE TRAM CONDUCTOR'S LIFE.

Tram conductors in Auckland ap taking a keen interest in the hat pin controversy, and they urge the us© of guards, as" suggested by the Advisory Committee of the Sydney City Council.

One conductor, in speaking to a reporter, pointed to ;> scratch. ;jnsi; above his left eye, and at once signified his rapproval of the sugges tion. Hat pins, lie said, were the bane of the tram conductors's life : he. never knew the minute when th<» fate of one of his eyes would be sealed by a sharp point as a lady leaned over to pay her fare or rushed up to i;et out. "If it could be done—but niv wife tells me it can't—l would bar hat pins altogether—forbid their impoitation.' The conductor has enough to put up with without beiug Iwyonetted in the -discharge of his ••fluty. Why orm't women wear elastic under the chin as they did in the i-ld d.-iys? That's a better winy to keep a hut on, too. 3' Hat pin guards Uo.ve already been offered for sale. The manager of a •drapery establishment, in telling c-f

■-•that fact, said that the guards did not sell' at -all, though _ the extra.ex-; pense was. practically nil. > Ladies, it seemed, ''thought'they would be an inconvenience. Hat pins were generally the last thing snatched up when a lady prepared to go out shopping, and to 'affix a guard to them might mean *an afternoon tea, «. tram, or.a bargain missed. However, there was really no need at all for guards if bbo proper style of liat pin were worn with, the proper style oi; hat. There were short hat pins for narrow brimmed hats, and if «. long hat pin were worn instead naturally' thero would be danger. •■■>•■