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Show ing over obstacles or digging trenches. Later a Chicago policeman at a busy c rousing discovered the merits of the wrist wat'h, only to be ceDsured by bis superior officer for his lack of masculine dignity. Mrs. Henry Butterworth, a New York suffragist, despite the fact that she is wedded to the ideal of equality for man and woman, cannot endure man's use of the wrist watch. "A strap applied elsewhere will do some men more good than one fastened around their wrists," she says. Count von Bern-storff Bern-storff declares that he detests jewelry for men, and he prevents the allies from securing more ammunition against him by declaring that he will never wear a wrist watch. Nevertheless, in Iowa, where the men have not hitherto been accused of effeminacy, Freeman Conway, editor of the Alason City Times, proclaims the fact that the farmers of his vicinity are employing the wrist watch more and more because the Jatest styles of farm machinery require the use of both hands at the same time. And further be it said that a gallant Iowa soldier, Adjutant General Guy Logan of Des Moines, without the slightest apology boldly declares that "wrist watches are a necessity for soldiers." A driver in a Pennsylvania coal mine took one of the new-fangled timepieces time-pieces with him to work. A mule objected ob-jected and kicked him in the wrist watch. The mule 's opinion, however, never has been valuable, and often is mere mulishness. FUTURE OF WRIST WATCH. Too much attention is being piven nowadays to the war or preparedness for war. while other important subjects are being neglected. For example, few of us have given any thought to tie future of the wrist wat.-h. Tt lias been accepted as merely and for all time a feminine adornment of a more or less practical nature, but now we are menaced with a widespread use of the wrist wah'h among men. At a recent encampment of militia in Xew Tork officers and men discovered dis-covered that the wrist watch was the only satisfactory timepiece for maneu-ers. maneu-ers. whether upon the field, at mess, in Lhr kitchen, carrying water, leap' |