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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 128, 1 June 1891, Page 3

ONLY A HAIBPIn, A woman oan do more with a hairpin' A than a man oan do with any one instrument in existence, ."■ She takes it to button her' shoes, to orimp her hair, to fasten her hat on, aud (beg pardon) to scratch her bead, , To button her gloves and the waißt-buttons of her dress, to pin her veil, to manicure ber nails. To clean her oomb, and to out the pasted label on her powder-box. And she ean use it as a paper knife, or a bookmark ; to open a letter, or to draw a device upon a seal. If she twists the ends, it becomes a tape needle, or a safety pin, or a key-ring. It is a very decent bodkin. In an omergenoy, it is as good as an Ordinary pin ; better, in faot, for it can be made to do double duty. It supplies many of the missing intricacies of bookies, suspenders, and supporters 5 and repairs any damaged domestic artiole re- ? airing a few iaohes of wire and a little eminine ingenuity, A woman traces a pattern with a hairpin dipped in her shpe-blaoking ; and, Bmoked in the gas; she uses it to pencil her eyebrows. If no one is booking, she will use it for a nutpiok ; and if her husband is not at home, she will take it to clean his pipe or cigarette-holder, And if be is at home, and after he haß broken his pocket- knife and hunted helplessly all over the house for a "piece of wire," she will draw her hairpin with a pitying look, and clear out the gas-burner or reopen the waste-pipe of the stationary bowl, . How often is the hairpin the hidden power that holdß baok the laoe windowourtain or poises tbe autnmn leaf-wreath on the edge of thejpioture-frame. How often does it replace the lost furniture pin in the vallance or lambrequin, A long, stout hairpin piaoed over the stem of the door-knob, with the prongs through the handle of the key, will make a timid women feel secure against that "everezpeoted burglar." A woman oan use a hairpin as a oorksorew for any kind of bottle she oareß to open, Ever ready to her hand, whether she uses it to plok her trunk look, or to trim a lamp wiok, to mend her bracelet or her bustle, she handles it with a dexterous grace and a confident skill that are born of inherited knowledge and educated by long practised use.- Nm York Pwk,

Stowed away in the paoked columns ot the morning's newspapers (says the St, Jameo' Qatttte of April 23) aie oertain items ot news which bring oat in carions oontraei the grealx ness and the littleness of our Britain fin-dt~ $iiolt— the parochial triviality of our homo Jolitios, tbe gigantic magnitude of our mperial Iftßks. We are waiting for the reiurns from Siigo, and the result ot this particular lound in the shabby, dirty, trumpery little game of Irish politios. And meanwhile we learn that they have finished the numbering of the people ot India ; and out in the Paoifio they have reached the last Stage in the proceedings whioh are to turn the scattered provinces and islands of Australasia into a new great Anglo-Saxon republic, The preliminary returns of the Indian oensus show that 22 millions of people (the population of Spain) have been added sinoe 1881, and that the whole population ot our Eastern Empire is somewhere about 280 millions. All the inhabitants ot Frsnoe, Germany, Austria, Italy, and the United States taken together would form a smaller total than that vast mags of humanity for whom the earthly providence is repr«wnted by a few hundred young and middlo-ftged Bnßlish gentlemen. You might throw the populations of a few seoond rate European Stale* into some of our Indian lieutenant-governorshipe, and not notice them : lust aa you might lose the territories of an empire in the waste-lands of the new •< Commonwealth of Australia. " Traveller; 'loan offer you here a splendid book, and dirt oheap." Gentleman: "Thanks, JXn'tcare for reading." Traveller: "But, jour obildrenperhapß? 1 Gentleman: "Haven't any. Only a oat." Traveller! ''Well, a book might be useful to throw at that." Thus are sentiment and sewage com" vdaabi at Farramatta 1 One of the papers therS'observes :— Winter has set in— bright, bracing, genial, Australian winter— with morning »irs a« exhilarating, though not a inf»xioati»g to imbibe, aa the eparklingeut iuioeß of tjrt ohoioett vintages. Pity that Baohwmifery'ftlr^ should be contaminated by the noxious miasroatio inflaenoes >f foul sewers from ill-drained Government instituHam., 1 ' ••; _.

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