PINK ROOT 



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common at one time for private 

 dressmakers to send material to 

 the undertaker's to be pinked by 

 the aid of the cutting tools kept by 

 these tradesmen. Laundry pink- 

 ing implies a special kind of ironing 



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whereby broad frills such as are V Jf\* ^jl Ji JT r 



often seen on pillow-cases are ^*s \J^ ^^/ ^_^ ^^>-' 

 neatly crimped. The 



iron em- 

 ployed for the purpose has a 

 curved surface. 



Pink Root (Spigelia marilan- 

 dica), WORM GRASS, OR INDIAN 

 PINK. Perennial herb of the natural 

 order Loganiaceae. A native of 

 N. America, the opposite, oval 

 lance-shaped leaves are stalkless. 



Pinking, or scallops, cut in edge oi 

 cloth material 



S. John the Baptist, built on an 

 earlier foundation in 1321, and 

 restored 1879, has a fine Perpen- 

 dicular tower, and a mural monu- 

 ment to the poet laureate Henry J. 

 Pye. Zephaniah 

 Holwell, a survi- ; 

 vor of the Black 

 Hole of Calcutta, 

 lived at Pinner 

 Place. In a cot- 

 tage in Pinner . 

 Wood, Bulwer- 

 L y 1 1 o n wrote 

 Eugene Aram. 

 Pinner Park, once 

 forest land in the 

 keeping of the 

 abbots of West- 

 minster, passed 

 to S. Thomas's 

 Hospital, London. 

 Near to the L. & 



soap works, and tanneries for pre- 

 paring Russian leather. In the 

 15th century it belonged to the 

 princes of Kiev, then became inde- 

 pendent, and after belonging to 

 Lithuania and Poland, passed to 

 Russia in 1795. Pop. 39,000. 



After their withdrawal from 

 Brest-Litovsk, on Aug. 25, 1915, 

 the Russians under Evarts fell 

 back towards Pinsk by the rly. 

 due E., and towards Minsk by the 

 rly. running N.E., pursued along 

 the former line by Mackensen, and 

 along the latter by Prince Leopold 



Fink Root. Leaves anl tunnel- 

 shaped flowers. Inset, enlargement 

 of flower 



The funnel-shaped flowers are red 

 outside and yellow within, grouped 

 on a one-sided spike. The leaves 

 and roots yield spigeline, a power- 

 ful worm medicine. 



Pinnace, Steam pinnace used in the British navy 



Crlbb, Southtea 



Pinnace. One of a warship's 

 boats. It may be propelled by 

 oars, sail, steam, or motor. Most 

 pinnaces are motor-driven. When 

 oars alone are used, a pinnace is 

 generally eight-oared and double- 

 banked. The term applies to a 

 light sailing-boat, frequently 

 schooner-rigged, used as a tender 

 to a much larger vessel. Sailing 



upon oars 



pinnaces often relied 

 when the wind fell. 



Pinner. Parish and village of 

 Middlesex, England. It is 13 m. 

 N.W. of London, on the L. & N.W., 

 Met., and G.C. Rlys., and on the 

 Pin, a feeder of the Colne. The 

 cruciform Hint and stone church of 



N.W. Rly. 'station are the Com- 

 mercial Travellers' Schools, opened 

 1855. The Queen's Head inn dates 

 from 1705. At Headstone was a 

 residence of the archbishops of 

 Canterbury. Once a hamlet and 

 chapelry of Harrow, Pinner was, 

 by Edward III, granted a market, 

 long discontinued, but once of im- 

 portance. Pop. 

 7,000. 



Pinos, ISLA DE, 

 OR ISLE OF PINES. 

 Island in the West 

 Indies. It lies 

 about 36 m. S. of 

 Cuba, of which it 

 is a dependency, 

 and has an area of 

 845 sq. m. Pine- 

 apples and tobacco 

 are grown. Cattle 

 rearing is carried 

 on, and minerals, chiefly sulphur 

 and marble, are ? 

 worked. Santa Fe 

 is the capital. It 

 was discovered by 

 Columbus in 1494, 

 and was for long 

 a buccaneer's 

 stronghold. Pop. 

 3,350. 



Pinner, Middlesex. Parish church of 8. John the Baptist 



of Bavaria. Evarts's right wing re- 

 tired behind the Zelianka, a tribu- 

 tary of the Niemen. Higher up, on 

 the Bialystok-Baranovitchi rly., the 

 Germans took Volkovysk,W. of the 

 Zelianka, on Sept. 7, and then swung 

 S. towards Rozany, about 10 m. 

 above Kartuzkaia, Bereza. 



Leopold then turned his Deten- 

 tion to Baranovitchi, but after stiff 

 fighting he was repulsed, and held 

 on a line from Novo Grodek to a 

 point E. of Pinsk about the end 

 of Sept., by which time Pinsk had 

 been in Mackensen's hands for a 

 fortnight. Marching along the rly. 

 Mackensen, on Sept. 7, had reached 

 Drohichyn, some 70 m. from 

 Brest-Litovsk and 34 m. from 

 Pinsk. After fighting with Evarts's 

 rearguards a heavy action at 

 Janoff, he occupied Pinsk on Sept. 

 16, the Russians having eluded 

 capture ; on Sept. 23 he was beaten 



Pinsk. Town of 

 W. Russia. It is 

 in the govt., and 

 150 in. S.W., of 

 Minsk, on the Pina, 

 and- the Brest- 

 Bryansk Rly 

 Here are brick and 



Pius.., Russia. 



View from bridge over the r.ver P:na 

 showing the convent 



