Eureka Reporter | 1907-07-26 | Page 4 | A Fashion from War

A FASHION FROM WAR how flat watches took place of the old time turnip turnips when the neat man takes unto him felt self a watch as thin as parchment he little thinks that that thin watch match results from army regulations up to the time of the allies taking paris par the ordinary watch was convex in shape and called from its outline a turnip the officers of the russian and other armies objected to thie this because its bulbous form made the uni form ot of a man on parade look untidy whether it were mere carried in the coat or the fob here in paris parts however they found that the watchmakers of the roal had contrived a chronometer which got over the biffl culty flat watches were the fashion in paris the english when they ap feared in the streets of the brench capital marched in not in gala drees dress euch such as the others wore but in the raiment which they had bad worn on cam laign great was the impression Impre eelon which their habiliments created but they at once adopted the smart flat watch and brousha it back to I 1 angland tor for our own manufacturers to copy london standard