Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-10-10 | Page 4 | Here and There

Here and. ere AGE OF A WATCH. Now York Press. Doos any one know tho avorago a'go of a watch' I mean its age of usefulness. useful-ness. Thousands of hand-mo-dowus are soon daily, but liko somo of our river steamboats they have boon altered al-tered and repaired bo frequently that nothing of the original is left. This man has his great-grandfather's ease, but new works have been introduced. That man has his grcat-groat-unclc's works set in a now caac. Etc- Of all our intimate personal property the watch works hardest. Henry Bicker insists that it should bo cleaned and j oiled every cightocn months if you expect it to keep time. In that period tho balance wheel turns on its delicate axis 13,996,S00,000 times, he declares; it docs not rest at night, but keeps at its work unceasingly. Wo oil the family sowing machine, the tvnewritor, the pump, tho grindstone, ho lawn mower, ftc, but never the- watch, the I most delicate and oxacting of all. i