THE DEADLY HATPIN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 670, 22 November 1909, Page 4

THE DEADLY HATPIN.

On the lawn on Cup Day (says a Melbourne paper), notico was attracted by a man with a largo picco of sticking-plaster placed quite , close to one eye, and he was overheard telling a friend how badly he had been scratched whilo getting into his tram by the protruding point of a lone hat-pm. The wound was so severe that ho had to get medical aesistanco in order to strap it up, and tho doctor feelingly congratulated him on tho fact that he had narrowly escaped a stab in tVi eyeball This instance—qmto an object-lesson—is worthy of special notice, for there is no necessity whatever for womoh to uso tho oxtromely long hatpin with hats of at all ordinary dimensions The llm skowcr is only required for tho hugo crowned hats, and then tho point need not protrudo, for with tho smallest troublo it can bo worn with porfect safety. In theso davs patent point protectors aro easily procurable, and in any case it is only fair that women should tako reasonable caro to prevent what might easily bo most painful and OTen dangerous accidents.