Show A WATCH FACE AS A COMPASS If you ever get lost In a forest or drift out to sea lu your sailboat the I face of your watch will serve as a compass to help you find your way home provided you can nee the sun You have only to hold Ito watch flat In your hand I with the hour mark then indicated I an the I I time I of day pointed point-ed directly at the sun and a point half way between that hour mark and XII will bu opposite to due south In the sky For example supposing that It Is l 10 oclock In the morning hold the I alch so that t the I mark X points straight at the sun and the mark XI I half way between X and XLI will bo pointing toward the south Or supposing It Is 1 oclock III the afternoon hold the watch so that IHl I points straight at the sun and the mark If 1 half way between IllI I and XII will be pointing toward I ho south I This rule is Infallible ap you may find by b testing it at any hour of the day for It Is based on a I very simple scientific principle The entire clrcjilt of the l heavens IIK traversed by he sun in twentyfour hours Is reckoned ito dcgleclthll IP the sun travels t Mf teen degrees every hour Now let your walch dial icpresetit the circuit of the hoavons each of tIme twolve hour spaces standing for thirty degrees de-grees Each halfhour space thore Tore would alan for fifteen degree If I I It Ib 10 oclock in the morning and you let X pplnt t toward the nun you will pee that in I two t hours lime time sun will be on the meridian or due south hut as every halfhour apace on your walch icpresontK fifteen dn jroep the distance traveled by the nunn nun-n one hour It will travel two of these spaces In two hours In other word at tho expiration of two t hours Limo sun will be on the meridian and the me ridian Is now therefore opposite to XJ because XI I is two halfhour spaces from X If iL is 1 oclock the sun is four 1 Mt Sz Using the Watch Compass hours past t the meridian and the meridian me-ridian therefore IH opposite to a point four halfhour spaces back from till which Is II |