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Show WHY THE SCARF PIN. GIFTS? The Hotel Clerk Laments a Lack of Human Ingenuity, ' I wonder wh," mused tlio hotel clerk, as lie dickered with Ids llo In fiont of a mliror fixed In the olllce. "I wonder wh whenever unbndy wants to give mo a pi orient lie sends me a scaif pin if I never wore a pin 1 could undoi stand It. Hut I always wear one and sometimes when 1 look at the collection I have at homo, I get despeiato mid want to wear half a dozen at a tlmo. Guests who come here and lecelvo courtesies always show their giatltudo by sending mc a scarf pin and, in a way. It's becoming embarrassing Tiy Instance, one man gave me a wolf head pin made of )ldl?ed silver with rubles tor the eyes. It was a beautiful pin I could see people look-lug look-lug at It yards awa when 1 was out, but one day I wore another and tlio man who gao mo the wolf's head blew In fi urn Chicago and was qulto hurt Now 1 novor know what pin to wear It Just shows how wealth has Its roHponsllillltlcs." |