| Show TilE AMERICAN GIROS HAIRPIN bat She Can Bo Vitb the Magical Bent vireo The proof of a boys mechanical skill is usually what he can do with a jackknife jack-knife the proof of a womans is what she can do with a hairpin says an exchange Few women take naturally to ordinary tools They use hammers in a gingerly and ridiculous manner or they pound their fingers with them they put bluntpointed nails along instead of across the grain and then wonder why it splits they use screwdrivers principally to pry open boxes and they think wire pinchers were made to crack nuts with But they know how to manage a hairpin A lady said an observant gentleman the other day always opens a letter better than a man A man tears off a corner and then pulls the envelope more or less to pieces in gettingat the contents but a lady draws a hairpin inserts one prong at a corner and rips open an edge as neatly easily and quickly as if the tool were made for the purpos With the same tool she can and frequently does button her glove and occasionally her boots She cuts the magazines with it She twists it into clasps for broken jewelry She uses it to suspend plaques She employs it to drrfw corks and also to snuff candles She inserts it into windows to keep them from rattling and uses it to brace back shades that incline to tumble down She succeeds with its help in turning the hasps of windows from the outside when obliged by accidental acci-dental lockout to burglarize her own house She arms herself with it when traveling to keep disagreeable neighbors at a respectful distance She files receipts noticesto the milk upon it5 She pins up man with it She even bends it roughly into the form of an initial and hapgs it in the keyhole of her intimat 1friends she has forgotten lock by way of a card when gotten her cardcase and the family are out The fan has long been regarded as the object most suggestive of the Spanish women Ladies of other countries are famed for their especially graceful or skillful use of other dainty family feminine femi-nine articles But ifVe were asked to select the thing most truly uo representative 11 American girl we wouia of the great without hesitation the neat the ingenious name hairoin in-genious the inexhaustible the magic I I I |
