Daily Independent

COMPLAINTS OF SHORT HATPINS
Seven Inches Not Long Enough for
Modern Millinery.

"If I were a hatpin manufacturer,"
said the girl, fretfully, as she jabbed
fiercely at a hat big enough for three
girls, "I'd consult the milliners before
I made up the season's supply of pins.
How in the world do they suppose we
can make these mammoth hats stay
on our heads if we only have these
tiny things to fasten them with?" And
she held up a pin about seven inches
long.

"Might just as well try to keep
them on with a common pin. You
stick this hatpin in one side of your
hat and it doesn't come out at all. It
just stays with its point imbedded in
your hair somewhere, and your hat
wobbles every step you take. It's no
use using three or four pins if they
won't reach clear across your hat.
They'll just meet in the center and get
all tangled up with one another. I've
spent all the morning on a hunt for a
hatpin long enough to be of any use
at all, and there's none in the market.
So I suppose my nerves will be worn
to a frazzle this winter stabbing and
jabbing with these baby hatpins in an
endeavor to make them of some use,
and I'll look like a fright with my hat
bobbing all over my head."