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Updated: September 2, 2025
In each dressing-room, have plenty of water, soap, and towels upon the washstand, several brushes and combs, small hand-mirrors, pin- cushions well filled, and stick pomade upon the bureau. The ladies' room should also have hair-pins, a work-box in readiness to repair any accidental rip or tear; cologne, hartshorn, and salts, in case of faintness.
Here the small dealer makes up in boastful clamor for the absence of quantity and assortment in his wares; and it often happens that an almost imperceptible boy, with a card of shirt-buttons and a paper of hair-pins, is much worse than the Anvil Chorus with real anvils.
Many were the disasters in the earlier days of feminine training; first of toilet, straw hats blowing away, hair coming down, hair-pins strewing the floor of the boat, gloves commonly happening to be off at the precise moment of starting, and trials of speed impaired by somebody's oar catching in somebody's dress-pocket.
It was soon found, apparently, that an admixture of tin hardened the copper, and the Bronze Age followed. The region of invention is not known, but we have large numbers of beautiful specimens of bronze work including brooches and hair-pins in all parts of Europe. Finally, about the thirteenth century B.C., we find the first traces of the use of iron.
Then she rose and placed them on the dressing-table. "Do you want me to go?" asked Catrina, in her blunt way. "No," answered Maggie, civilly enough; but she extracted a couple of hair-pins rather obviously. Catrina heeded the voice and not the action. "You English are all alike," she said. "You hold one at arm's length.
I have heard a woman classified contemptuously as one who does her hair up with two hair-pins, and no doubt bad feminine form can be observed in other shocking directions. But again it seems to be that the semblance of poverty, whether of means or of leisure, is the one thing which must be avoided. Why, then, should the wasp gun be considered bad form?
While I was gathering up hair-pins and pulling myself together to leave the car at the end of the ride I asked the conductor how far we had traveled. "Forty miles," said he, tersely. "That means forty miles AHEAD," I murmured. "How far up and down?" "Oh, a hundred miles up and down," grinned the conductor, and the exchange of persiflage cheered us both.
And he lingered in the museum where the relics of the Roman occupation had been stored; he was interested in the fragments of tessellated floors, in the glowing gold of drinking cups, the curious beads of fused and colored glass, the carved amber-work, the scent-flagons that still retained the memory of unctuous odors, the necklaces, brooches, hair-pins of gold and silver, and other intimate objects which had once belonged to Roman ladies.
The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair-pins he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them.
"Hand me the shoe-buttoner, Phonzie. The doctor says stooping is bad for my hair-pins." Their laughter, light as foam, met and mingled. "Oh, you nervy Gertie!" "What's your hurry, Phonzie dearie?" "I don't see you stopping me." "Fine chance, with her crouching over there, ready to spring." "Hang around, sweetness.
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