Show THE USEFUL HAIRPIN An observant man is Chris Billop of the Baltimore Sun who writes an informing essay on the time uses of the hairpin in which he describes that implement as a small wire bent double in the middle and conven conven- convenient convenient convenient for Getting the meat out of walnuts and so forth Twisting around the hub of a toy automobile to keep the wheel from coming off Picking the teeth if it done one in the privacy of ones one's bedrooms Making emergency repairs in the electrical lighting system through you had better be pretty careful if you dont don't want to be For cleaning tobacco pipes and making holes in cigars that wont won't draw for fishing for coins that I have fallen into cracks for pinning I curtains to curtain rods for im improvising im- im improvising improvising a link fora broken chain for holding an undershirt together when a vital button has come off offin offin offin in the wash For perforating the cap of a salt saltshaker saltshaker saltshaker shaker in damp weather for pick pick- picking picking picking ing a stubborn cork out of the mouth of a bottle for a book mark to button gloves for picking locks for running running- strings through bras bras- brassieres brassieres brassieres sieres for tools for delicate clay modeling for a hook to keep thedoor the thedoor thedoor door of the medicine cabinet shut and other domestic projects too numerous to mention Then Billop adds o Is it any wonder w nd r then tJien that when a hairpin is needed to pin in inthe inthe the hair one can never be found I |