The Dangerous Hatpin.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10604, 5 November 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

The Dangerous Hatpin.

As the dangers arising from the protruding hatpin still continue in evidence, one is led to suppose that the various point guards which have from time to time been put on the market are not exactly what is wanted. In most cases the protectors aro either so small that they are continually being lost, or else they need a careful adjustment, which is a strain on the arm of the wearer, as also as to the wellfitting .dress bodice, which much armlilcing is apt to stretch out of shape. Within the last week, however, a correspondent has forwarded a specimen hatpin protector, which seems most ingenious, as well as about the best thing of die kind put forward. The lady sending it'-says that she herself had once a nasty experience from a hatpin worn in a neighbor's hat, and since then she has experimented- in different ways, and to a successful issue, to produce a simple and efficient guard that would bo cheap, pretty, anil effective. She first obtained some light, ■hollow, wooden moulds, somewhat like the cone-shaped seed-cup found on some varieties of the eucalyptus. These she. fills with prepared cork, and then covers with the" same colored material. ' Finally, each is provided with a short length of ribbon or clastic, which is sewn to the brim or crown, of the hat, so as to be , always ready to meet the hatpin point, j which is then .pressed into- the cork--filled end of the cone. By covering the - cone with - the trimming of the hat it incidentally- becomes part of w the milliner's scheme. —Home paper'J