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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 4517706, member: 76316&quot;]What you like is, unfortunately, not to be found in that &#039;bodkin&#039; (more on the term subsequently)...Stanhopes are particularly delightful to find serendipitously, as you had hoped, in among (usually) older items...as I&nbsp; have on 2 occasions, deep in th&#039; past.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my family, the term bodkin usually applied to a longer, but not too wide, ordinary safety pin. My younger brother an&#039; I wore 2 piece PJ&#039;s...with drawstrings at the waist. Quite often, when sent to get ready for bed, it was found to be that one of that string had disappeared down the channel. Nothing to be done but withdraw it completely in order to rethread it. By attaching the pin to one end, then slowly...using the pin as gathering piece...rethread the string fully, allowing our PJ bottoms to be secured around our butts. It took awhile, y&#039;know, to accomplish this task without either over-pulling the string when it finally appeared, or raising our parents suspicions about the time it took, or the uncommon frequency of the necessity to use the &#039;bodkin&#039;. I was 6, he was almost 5.</p><p>Looking back I realize we weren&#039;t fooling either of them...but as we were gainfully occupied in the urgent task we were allowed to be up past our normal bedtime...by as much as maybe half an hour! I really regret not having questioned either Dad or Mom about this long-ago charade later in their lives.</p><p>In the next batch, there&#039;ll be 3 simple bodkins. Any of them would serve to yield an extra 30 minutes of wakefullness to a couple of kids.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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