Show the caro care of a watch thoro is no other personal belonging to which good care Is more essential than 0 a watch and hardly any other that Is more mora recklessly ill used tho the baby plays with it the housewife lays sticky fingers upon it it Is aslett left open at night tor for convenience or subjected to alternations 0 of heat and cold by being hung against tho the chimney flue there Is the highest authority for saying that tho the best place for a watch Is its owners pocket the pocket should be a clean one and the watch bo be further protected by a chamois big bag it should be wound up with even stead steady yi motion not too fast or too slow and as near as possible at the same hour ot of the day morning is the best for iland it if Itis dolle while tho the watch has sti still 11 an hour or two to ran there will ba much loss less we arand tear ot oi the mainspring milin spring lit in tact fac 11 paradoxical as it sounds a watch match will wear out twice as soon by running one day in ten as it would it if kept goin ff all the time let it ft llo ito flat a as 1 s intile I 1 as possible when not in the pocket keep it hanging by lis its ring in ina a caso case of orsome some soft thick stuff preferably ot of wool or silk never leave the case open the alie night through if jon ou need to do it for even ao an hour bo be cartful to aipa the dust from tho the crystal before closing it no case ever js i dust proof if such were possible the watch menders occupation would bo be well nigh gone since it ts Is tho the dust sitting sifting in that not merely clogs tho the wheels and turns the oil on the pivots to gum but acts is 13 emery would and wears away the works until they utterly tall fall to keep time avoid jarring your watch under csider pain of having it stop and stop until it grows worthless as a timepiece do not pin your faith t too oo 00 closely on Its accuracy elther cither with the very best ot of movements variations will sometimes occur heat cold motion vibration location aaion any or all may make your watch fast fait or slow one reason that ladies watches are arc usually such bad timekeepers time keepers is that they are arc so irregularly worn hence have about three days out of seven a widely different environment never use chalk whiting or any sort of powder to brighten a case never rub hard and use only a clean chamois or bit pt of soft silk boware beware of oven even a suspicion of moisture A watch had nearly as well fall upon a rock as aa into water it if by chance such a thing happens put the watch at once onca anto nto alcohol whisky will not do and leave it until you can hand it over to the watchmaker lad ladles acs ics home journal I 1 |