DANGEROUS HAT-PINS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1925, 6 December 1913, Page 5

DANGEROUS HAT-PINS.

LOCAL WOMENFOLK WARNED. _ Wellington women may perhaps for- • get.that the City Council, has passed a by-law banning the long protruding hatpin. Whether'they have or not, a forcible reminder was given somo of them last evening by a'City. Council inspector, who is known to bo zealous in the execution, of his. .duty, irrespective of tlio vagaries of fashion and its demands.' At 7.31) o'clock last evening thcro was a long queue of people, mostly ladies, waiting outside tlio Opera . Houso.,for., tlio doors to open to admit them' ; to 'tlio .'performance of "The Geisha," , when tho'.'. inspector passed slowly along tho line, keeping a sharp look-ont for the objectioiialilb steel points that' pierco hat and' hair, and then seek fresh victims..' He noticed 'quite a number that looked 'like "an offence under the by-law," and, bracing himself iip, lie gently stated that tlio protruding hatpin was' not in the future to bo tolerated, and gave advico to the ladies not to run tlio risk of a prosecution by wearing. them in a theatre (or any) crowd, as a chance turn of tlio head might easily injuro a per-, son's eyesight for life. Tlio advico was received, in the proper spirit, and the ladies wcro still giggling over tlio unusual experience, when . tho doors opened, and thc.v made a wild rush to seo, tho pretty littlo Geisha of Japan, who never wear hats'at all.