Show S Wrist Watches Afloat Afloat J Wrist watches at at s se sea S luminous dials are at once once t a ence a safeguard and a peril You can cantell cantell tell the time without tearing your I clothes to pieces or going to a light When you walk along long the deck at night you can hold your forearm so that the dial glows In the sight of all who are are passing long along the deck and thus prevent pro pro- vent collisions If you dont don't play up j your wrist watch you are supposes supposed to whistle sweet and low In lathe n the dark as you pass alon along But 1 If you are not I 1 passing along the deck only lingering along the deck roll rail and are fortunate fortunate in In having one of the few women who 11 are crossing as y ur companion In that i jj lingering your luminous dial at rest reston reston on the deck rail Is apt to wreck the v 3 wonderful sense of seclusion that darkened darkened dark dark- I ened decks give these war times One Ona heartless patrol a trip or two ago stepped stepped step step- ped to the rail and asked a dismayed 1 f i S subaltern n not t to have his wrist watch quite so far around whatever that that J Ja meant because it might be detected b ba by a submarine Nelson Nelson Collins In inthe th the thi Century Magazine Magazina tj 1 |