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Show Wrist Watches Afloat. ' i Wrist; watches at sea, with thei luminous dials, are at once a convenience, conveni-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 the deck at night you can hold your forearm so that the dial glows in the sight of all who are passing along tho deck and thug pre. .collisions. If you don't play up your wrist Vatch, you are supposed tdi whistle "sweet and low" in the dark as you pass alonj. But if you are nt passing along the deck, only lingering' along the dock rail, and are fortunate in haying one of the few women who are crossing as your companion in that lingering, your luminous dial at rest, on the deck rail is apt to wreck the wonderful sense of seclusion that dark, ened decks give these war times. One heartless patrol a trip or two ago stepped step-ped to the rail and asked a dismayed subaltern not to have his wrist watch "quite so far around," whatever that meant, because It might be detected by a submarine. Nelson Collins in the Century Magazine. |