Show ION Ml HIT PiNS DECLARED A NUISANCE BY COUNCILMEN Ordinance Ordered Drawn Up Lip to Shorten Deadly Weapons Worn Wo n nin in Chicago Ch cago Chicago March 7 long hat pins were declared to be a It public nuisance and an pin ordinance was ordered drawn up by the judiciary committee ommittee of the city council today The action followed a weeks crusade against the long hat pin which culminated cu today in a public hearing The ordinance will Y ll stipulate that hat pins worn in ill public places pl Ces shall sh ll not extend more than an aninch inch mch beyond the crown of the hat It is to be drawn dra n up by the corpora corporation corporation tion fion counsel and presented for action by the city council next Monday night Nine ine aldermen three or lawyers and a score of protesting women were present at the public hearing We want to protest right here against this attempt att to regulate attire declared Attorney Francis Hinckley rep representing representing representing resenting the women It does not become the city of ot Chicago to try to dictate what Its women shall wear right said Miss Nan E Davis Interrupting her counsel These hat pins are only means of defense You must not dictate to us women Wen Well you Ou women want to regulate what wo We e men drink dont donl you inter interposed interposed Interposed posed Alderman Aldernan Carmack Amid a chorus of o boohoos boohoo s from fe fl female female male voices Alderman Herman J T Boul Bouler Bouier er who started the toe matter maW r in the tile council stepped forward farward and described d what he called the he truth about the whole hat hatpin pin ln pinI I 1 do not believe bellove there was ever a time in jn history when women have shown so much lunch eccentricity In their personal adornment as at present he said We have had bad the tight skirt ikirt the sheath heathi gown the marcel wave and now comes the theard yard ard wide ide hat bat with its remarkable acre zones series In addition to 18 ribbons laces wire wiro flowers vegetables animals and birds headgear is armed with th tit deadly If women care to wear and all 1 roosters on their heads that is their own concern and It cannot be Interfered with will willby by the city but when It comes to wear wearIng wearIng Ing tog swords they must be stopped One Ono man told me rue he was almost de decapitated decapitated In the city hall ball elevator by bythe bythe bythe the sweep of a hat pin like a scimitar worn by one of the hall ball belles belies In Inthe Inthe Inthe the street cars people are In danger if r r losing their eyes by b sitting beside some soroa lively devotee of fashion The hat pin may be the only weapon woman has to ward off attacks but let lether lether II her wear it sheathed In her ber belt Hid Hul Hulden Hidden Hilden den in a mass of ot plumage or hair it Jt cornea comp under the tile designation of concealed weapons There were more boos bo s by b the he women and the committee sent Its ita B to the corporation counsel g |