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Show Pins Once Prized As New Year Gift Bishop Hall's "Satires," published pub-lished In 1508, tell how every tenant at the dawn of the New Year presented pre-sented his lord with a fat capon; and Ben Jonson, in his "Christmas Masque" introduces among his cast of characters "New Year's gift In a blue coat, serving man like, with an orange nnd a sprig of rosemary on his head." Oranges and nutmeg, gilded and decorated apples, were frequent gifts exchanged among the poorer people. Ladles of fashion delighted In pins. Invented during the Sixteenth Six-teenth century to take the place of clumsy wooden skewers. Here we have the origin of our own "pin money" a gift of money given In place of pins. |