Feminine Ingenuities

Of the multifarious uses of the hairpin, some at least are well known. They are suggested by a French traveler's description of a pin which the Indian women of Peru wear as a fastening for tlieir shawls. lts head is in theshape of a spoon. In fact, it is a spoon and a shawlpin in one. It is odd, the Frenchman says, to see a woman pull out the pin, letting her shawl drop from her bare shoulders, aud proceed to use it for eatiug her soup or porridge. After the repast she passes ;he bowl of the spoon carefully between ner lips two or three times, gathers up ïer shawl aud fastens it in place. The same women ase their slippers instead of pocketbooks - a poiuc in which they inay be said to have the advantage of their North American sisters, who, having no pockets, or uone within comfortable reach, are compelled to carry their purses in their hands. The money of Lima consists of bank notes, which go very well into the bottom of a slipper.