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Show The Care or a Watch. There is no other personal belonging belong-ing to which good care Is more essential es-sential than a watch, and hardly any other that Is more recfclers'ly 111-ured. 111-ured. The baby iIays wlUi It, Uio housewife lays ilirKy fingers upon Iiritislelt open at ni0-Qt for convenience, con-venience, or subjected to alterations of heat and cold by being hung against the chimney Hue. There Is the highest authority for saying that tho best place for a watch Is Its owner's pocket. Tho pocket should bo a clean one, and Uio watch be further protected by a chamois tag. 1 1 should te wound up with even, steady motion, not ?oo fast or too slow, and a near as posslblust the same hour of Uio day. Morn-lug Morn-lug is tho lvt time for it. and if it Is done while Uio watch has still an hour or two to run, there wUl lie much less wear and tear of the mainspring. In fact, paradoxical paradox-ical as It sound", a watch will wear out twice asfoou by running one day In ten as It wouU If kept running run-ning all the time. Ixt It lie Ilat as little as possible. When nit in Uio poskst Keep it hanging by its ring In a case ortomo soft, Uilck Out!, preferably of wool or silk. Never leave Uie case open the night through. If you need to do it for even an hour be careful to w Ipe tho dust from the cry-tal before clo-ing. No case ever yet made is du-t proof. If sueh were possible tho watch, mender's occupation would be well-nigh well-nigh gone since it is the dust sifting sift-ing in that not merely clogs the wheels and turns Uio oil on Uie pivots to gum, but acts as emery would, and w ears away the works ut.tlitl.cy utterly fill to keep time. Avoid Jarring cuf watch, under pain of naving it stop, and stopuntll it grows worthless ps a Unieplece. 1)3 not pin your faith too closely on its accuracy, either. With tho viry best of movements, variations will sometimes occur. Heat, cold, ruction, ruc-tion, vibration, location, any or all, may make your watch fast or slow One reason that ladles' watches arc usually such bad timekeepers is that they are so Irregularly worn hence have about three days out ot seven a widely tlitTennt environment. environ-ment. Never use clialk, whIUng or any sortofjiowder to brighten a case. Never rub hard, and use only a clean chamois or bit of soft silk. Br-ware Br-ware of even a suspicion of moisture. A watch had nearly as well fall upon n rock as Into water. If, by chance, such a thing happens, put Uie watch at onco into alcohol whhkiy will not do and leave It until J ou can hand it over to Uie watchmaker. Ladu' J fume Journal. |