Show LOANED WATCHES RAN AWAY timepieces Time pieces borrowed from jeweler inherited odd habit of ocono one left to be repaired there are several kinds of watches there aro are gold watches silver watches dollar watches and watches tho the jeweler has to lend ills his patients while theirs are being repaired repa lied for tile last ten days das we have been carrying a borrowed watch relates a writer in the detroit free press prea our timepiece was riot not exactly out of order it would run but it had no control it ran wild lid on the bases it stole the second and third hour frequently wo we would set it at eight anil and look nt at it 20 minutes nit later inter and discover that it was 15 minutes past three we tire are erratic but we erratic errante enough to keep up with that watch so we took it into the dry dock where tile the inan squints at it through a sawed oll off telescope and tells you sou that it will cot cost 2 to fix it after lie had told us its it would costi us ns 2 we ailed him to lend us a watch until unell we called for our own this lie ha did lie ile aund wound up a ticker and set it it was 12 noon when we took it from ills hands two hours later a fric noll asked us its the ho time and we showed him our watch it was A quarter to seven gosh he said 1 I think ltv it was wai that late into I 1 overlooked dinner time in some way so we went back and borrowed another watch from the jow jeweler eler this thise ono one li Is 0 K lie said with a smile we carried it for an hour in that time it had jumped 10 hours houis we dont know now when we tool look at it whether it Is berlin time or tomorrows time we can sot set it at two and when the elty city hall la Is ringing three our borrowed watch swears it Is 15 minutes after four tomorrow at first wo we looked on the watches suspiciously lint but now wo we have begun to suspect 0 hes when three watches begin to lie to your face something Is wrong |