Show A FASHION FROM WAR how flat watches took place ef th old time turnip when the neat man take unto him belt a watch s thin as parchment b little thinks that that thin watch re suits from army regulations up to the time of the allies tatting pail the ordinary watch was convex in shape and called from ita outline a turnip the officers of the and other armies objected to this b cause its bulbous form made the form of a man on parade look untidy whether it w ere carried in the coat or the fob here in paris however they found that the watchmakers of the koyal had contrived a chronometer which got over the dim culty flat watches were the jaeblon in paris the b ailish when they ap feared in the streets 0 the french capital marched in not in drees euch as the others wore but in the raiment which they had worn on cam laign great was the which their habiliments created nut they at once adopted the smart fiat watch and brought it back to angland tor our own manufacturers to copy london standard |