Show noon mark of olden times one of the simplest devices by which the midday hour was made known to dwellers in rural homes a century ago was a noon mark the dweller in town or village had the noon bell from the church steeple but on nearly every farm house was a noon mark usually by a frequented door or window says mrs earle in a recent book I 1 have seen them many a time on the threshold of a barn at the kitchen doorstep or out side the pantry country folk grew very skillful in telling the relative time from a noon mark I 1 knew one old woman who by her kitchen noon mark could tell the hours from 10 to 4 without a variation of four min utes which Is in general all that would be expected from a watch from a woman s watch |