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Show Pointed PARAGRAPHS About PINS A JUDGING by the atupendous number of pins and hairpins manufactured in this country every year, the task of the fair sex in keeping keep-ing up their "crowning glory" and pinning their clothing together must be something astonishing. . Also, according to the numberof needles """: factured each year, the American sewing must be some job. , , Fourteen billion toilet pins are produced by American factories annually. American mothers find it necessary to purchase pur-chase 720,000,000 safety pins every year in order to keep their children properly harnessed. The yearly crop of metal hairpins is 1,250,-000,000. 1,250,-000,000. Needles of all kinds aggregate 235,000,000 every 12 months. . The value of this pin and needle crop ia $13,-000,000 $13,-000,000 at the factories. There are 49 factories engaged jnthe making of these articles, the total capitalization being $9,424,000. Back in 1850 there were only four pin factories fac-tories in the United Statea. They had combined com-bined capital of $164,000. It will thus be seen that the fcTOwth of this industry hss been tremendous. tre-mendous. Thorns and fish bones were used as a means of faatening clothing long before the discovery of pins and needles and thread. Among the remains of the lake dwellers of Central Europe have been found a great number of pins some of bone, others of bronze. Some of them are quite fancy, having ornamental heads, while-others are very crude. Some have double stems and a few h.. been found that were made exactly like the safety pins of today. Among Egyptian and Greek ruins have been found many specimens of artistically made pins. Ancient Roman bronze pins and bone hairpins, with fancy heads, have been found at Pompeii. ' |