SAFETY-RAZOR BLADES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19846, 20 July 1926, Page 13

SAFETY-RAZOR BLADES.

A FEMININE NECESSITY. THE DISCARDED HAIRPIN. ‘‘The women,” smiled the man who was wrapping up a safety razor box for a customer, “have a new weapon. While it docs not replace the hairpin, being less adaptable for the many uses to which that article has been put since the days of Lady Godiva, the safety razor blade has become a feminine necessity. “A woman these days doesn’t use scissors or knife for ripping. The safety razor blade docs the job quicker and with less risk of cutting a hole in the cloth. The painter leaves dabs of paint on the windows or the bathroom walls. There was a time when those unsightly splotches caused a housewife no end of elbow exertion with ammonia, soap, and even lye. To-day she gets the paint off with a safety razor blade in no time and with little effort. •■Have you over noticed a woman, while engaged in some task, suddenly put her hand to her hair, and take it away looking sheepish? She has felt the need of"a hairpin to poke a button out of a crack in her sowing basket, to push a pencil out of the mechanism of her typewriter, to button her shoes, or to repair a toy, and suddenly she remembers that bobbed hair has banished that timehonoured tool. "We have a stenographer who never used to call for masculine help in doing little odd jobs about her machine. In the last year she is eternally calling for help, and the explanation is that she no longer wears hairpins.”