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Show THAT EVER-USEFUL HAIRPIN Remarkable Indeed Are the Things That a Woman Can Accomplish With It. We wero closing up tho house, preparing pre-paring for our summer vacation. "What are you doing, mother?" wo asked, as wo watched her locking tho back door. "Oil, this ls my burglar-pioof lock," sho icplled and we pronounced it good. She had hung a big wire hairpin hair-pin o( r the diiorkii'ib. lotting the euds ti'.Ip through tho key mid threading them a littlu below it, to mako assurance assur-ance doubl) feuru. Of course it was not exactly builur-progf whut Is? but It would bother any would-bo Intruder In-truder to either turn that key from the outuldo or push It out of tho keyhole key-hole to mako loom for his own. Afteiwaul sho wont to all tho win-down win-down and twisted a halipin mound crch lock In such a way that it would . b impossible to spring thein open, i i-,,1 so left the Iioubc, with mind at i..ily that morning I had complained ih-t iu. water N.ould not tu.i oft piop-erly piop-erly from tho bathroom basin and , mother had whisked out u haiipiu and, UefVfjfip oneend into n hook, had llhtttf-out a wad of hair and raveling aifto'lt of spongo with it. My first thouegi had been to call a plumbor. Mother also used a long hairpin to l.eep the drainpipe in the ico chest freo from stoppage, and it lias Bavcd a plumber's bill for cleaning tho trap In tho kltclion sink. Womnn'a World. |