HATPINS GUILLOTINED.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1642, 8 January 1913, Page 9

HATPINS GUILLOTINED.

!'-., MACHINE OVERCOMES POINTS. .' It would seem, that'tho danigerVof- th< protruding hatpin has been overcome ai last.' v } , ;A ' r ■::.-. ,■_■■,■ .Small machines how adorn, the counter! of fashionable shops in London to brinf emancipation to long-suffering man fron the menace of the nrotrudiag hatpin. They aro only'lOJin. high, and theii mission in life is,to cut off the odd inchei of pointed stool which, everywhere mai goes, threaten■; him with ; blindness am blood-poisoning. '"■ . "■• .; What'this'departure means is that h future hatpins-will be "cut to measure.' Whenever a' ivronwn - buys a new ! hat whether of the cart-wheel two-yards roum variety, or a skittish pill-box toque, sh will be supplied with hatpins to fit, mad while she-waila. ■■'' ■ , ; -'- ■ ':'-■• Woman has long been blamed as cal Jous'and careless bcoause,-on the top ,o an omnibus or in the stalls of a theatr ot a matinee, she 6uddonly swings roum! just missing the ninii at tho back-wit her set of. millinery bayonets. But sho could not help it. Hatpin were made only in one or two sizes, si inches or nine inchos long, as tho oas might be, and it invariably happene that tho particular mounting at the hen which took her fancy was only rivnilnbl in n largeiy-protrmliiig length. Now all that is to bo altered '11 shopper buys her hat, and tho sale woman, with the-aid of hor bonehcei guillotine,' clips the hatpin to the exai With just a twirl n new point is tuni< in the place of the ortc beheaded; u: other twirl, and tho pin is pollen ready for use, protruding only .the Ira lion "of an inch. , , , , , After this, the hatpin danger shou cease. - _■ ■