Show wrist watches afloat wrist watches at sea with th el luminous dials bre are nt at once tt a convent ence a safeguard and a peril you can tell the time without tearing your clothes to pieces or going to a light when you walk along tho the deck at night you youcan con hold bold your forearm so that the dial glows la in the sight of all who are passing along alone the deck and thus prevent collisions it if you dont play up your wrist watch you are supposed to whistle sweet and low in the dark as you pass along but it if you are not passing along the deck only lingering along the dock deck rail and are fortunate in having one of the few women who ore are crossing as aa your companion la in that lingering your luminous dial at rea rosh on the deck rail la Is apt to wreck the tha wonderful sense of seclusion cluston eo that dark ened decks give these war times one on heartless patrol a trip or two ogo ago step ped to the rail and asked a dismayed subaltern not to have hla his wrist watch quite so BO far around whatever that meant because it might bo be detected by a submarine nelson colllns collins in tb century magazine |