A BOY'S IDEA

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7, 18 February 1909, Page 278

A BOY'S IDEA

It was a little boy, a little English boy, in whose brain the first idea of the safety pin was born. His father being a blacksmith and not very rich, the boy. had to act as nursemaid to his baby brother. The baby often cried, and his small nurse, noticing that the cries were generally caused by pins that pricked, tried to bend the pins so they would do their work without puncturing the child. The plan was not an immediate success, but the boy's father, seeing the worth of the idea, set to work and ultimately turned out the safety pin.