One cannot arouse much enthusiasm or excitement by reducing or adjusting the tax on babies' bonnets, hatpins or the like.
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During the 1880s, bonnets gave way to hats, and the popularity of hatpins soared.
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Thehatpinwas invented to hold wimples and veils in place, and was handmade.
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The mouse, just as before, tricks the cat by attaching ahatpinto the tip end of the cue, and then yanks the cue briefly.
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It was also worn by women, often with hatpins to keep it in place.
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They said they had then cut out the cardboard figures and supported them with hatpins, disposing of their props in the beck once the photograph had been taken.
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She also had to use a long, straighthatpinto clean a fuel pipe, which had become blocked, and to insulate a wire with a garter.
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