Hat Pins, Cola and Other News of 1925

From the San Francisco Call, 1904 – Photos showing how a woman can defend herself with her hat pin.

Those who contend that women are talkative must admit that there are often striking exceptions. For instance, Mrs. Mae E. Nolan, congresswomen of California, whose term expired recently, served more than two years in the house without making a speech.

Massachusetts has an old law prohibiting women from wearing long protruding hatpins, which the house voted to repeal recently, on the ground that they were not worn with bobbed hair, anyway. But the senate stood pat, declaring former styles might come back. Thus the people of Massachusetts are safe from the deadly hatpin, if not from the sprightly automatic.

Groups of students at Foochow, China, declared a boycott on American herring and wrecked a street where the objectionable viands were sold. They probably have the sympathies of American doughboys who were fed up on “gold-fish” during the war.

Martinsville, W. Va., has a “blue law” which prohibits the sale of soft drinks on Sunday by drug stores, although permitting the filling of medical prescriptions. A resourceful citizen outwitted the lawmakers by presenting a duly signed doctor’s prescription calling for an ounce of coco cola and five ounces of carbonated water, “to be taken immediately.” He got it. – King City Rustler, 1925

Etiquette Enthusiast, Maura J Graber, is the Site Editor for the Etiquipedia© Etiquette Encyclopedia©