The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . rlytinned. Its point is often defective and always of short life, ifused. The women become expert as judges of good Pins, andwith the little instruments so cheap, there is no need of economyin saving either a rusty or a pointless Pin. Thus many Pins arethrown away. The weeks sweeping always reveals a nut . r inthe dust that is accumulated, and these are not always i*. goodcondition. The children deal in Pins as their first real currency,before they deal in marbles, and the wear on
The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment . rlytinned. Its point is often defective and always of short life, ifused. The women become expert as judges of good Pins, andwith the little instruments so cheap, there is no need of economyin saving either a rusty or a pointless Pin. Thus many Pins arethrown away. The weeks sweeping always reveals a nut . r inthe dust that is accumulated, and these are not always i*. goodcondition. The children deal in Pins as their first real currency,before they deal in marbles, and the wear on Pins so used takesnearly all of them out of any other use. If ten Pins were lost 420 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. each week in twelve million homes, the consumption each yearwould be over six billions. But, beside the children, there hascome to be an enormous use of Pins in the counting-room and atthe desk, where documents are pinned together. It is not improb-able that the Pins of the large cities go under the pavements, asthe street-sweepings find their way to new and unpavedthoroughfares that are below dr
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