WHAT A PIN DID.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4921, 17 October 1884, Page 3

WHAT A PIN DID.

Now tbat the great inventors have ** Btood in " with the unfair sex in their already sufficiently successful efforts toward deceiving the bifurcated branch of mankind, it is hard to tell wbither we are drifting on tbe great ocean of uncertainty. A firm of rubber manufactures in New York advertise what they describe as their " patent balloon contours," by whose aid the boeom of alleged beauty can be made " life:ike, both to sight and touch." The advertisement does not say whose touch, but perhaps we had better touch the subject lightly before our religious editor files en injunction. However, what we started to say was that it must have been some contrivance of this sort tbat was the matter with a lady attendinga party on Van Ness Avenue tbe otber evening; she was waltzing around tbe room, fondly clasped to the manly breast of a wellkDOwn society man, when in one of the convolutions of the glide he pressed her elastic form rather more watmly than usual against the pin tbat secured his buttonhole bouquet. " I wonder what makes the gas hiss so this evening ?" said the young man, glancing at the chandelier. The lady gave a sudden glance at her corsage, turned pale, and pressed still closer to her partner. "MrDiffey," she whispered* hurriedly, "just see if we can't waltz out of that door on to tbe verandah. It is so warm here." This was successfully d»ne, and then, sending the perplexed young man for her wraps, the wrecked female safely gained the dressingroom before she had entirely collapsed. This touching little incident teaches us never to despair in the hour of danger and misfortune, and that—that presence Of mind is often a good substitute for absence of body—and things.