Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-22 | Page 13 | Wrist Watch Fad is Very Popular in China

WRIST WATCH FAD IS VERY POPULAR IN CHINA CHICAGO, Oct. 10. Wrist watches suddenly have achieved wide popularity popular-ity in China, according to a recent N poifl of the United States consul geti-sral, geti-sral, Pontius Sartorial inconveniences in ikes the wrist watch the only anatomical ana-tomical spot on which a Chinaman can carry a watch successfully American manufacturers have built up an extensive trade with China in clocks The clock that hangs on a wall and speaks the time to eye and tar sold readily. But when the manufacturers man-ufacturers attempted to Introduce the pocket watch they ran foul of an international in-ternational obstacle In Chinese clothes. I whose voluminous folds make a pocket pock-et an abysmal mystery A Chinaman , had not the time to learn the time when the process Involved fishing a watch from the cryptic depths of his flowing garments This difficulty pocketed pock-eted the foreign trade in watches beyond be-yond hope until the wrist watch came I Into the worldwide vogue as a soldierly convenicnco during the war. The sartorial problem that made the pocket uat.h impossible in China bids fair to establish the wrist watch as the national time picco that eventually i will consign to innocuous desuetude , the sun dial which still lingers in this ancient land as the customary device I lor recording time.