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Show Taking Care of Your Watch The suburban woman took her way In leisurely fashion to the local railway rail-way station, en route to the city for the day. As she rounded the corner of the building, she was dismayed to see her train disappearing down the tracks, just too far away to catch. Pushing the sleeve of her coat aside, she consulted the watch on her wrist. "Five minutes slow," she muttered In exasperation. "Wouldn't you think this watch would keep better time? I just set it last night, too." Why do we women buy watches for beauly instead of for service, and why do we not take care of them after we get them? What would we think of a business man who carried a fussy little timepiece with works so fragile and delicate that it was always getting out of order? Yet we, too, have to catch trains and meet friends by appointment, appoint-ment, and get off on time for matinees and club meetings. Another thing, women do not take the care of their watches that men are In the habit of taking. A man's most sacred duty and habit is to wind his watch the last thing before he goes to bed at night. A woman winds her watch one day, when she is going to wear It and then leaves it lying on her dressing table . for the next two days, when she is staying quietly at home and depending upon the clock In the living room. Her watch runs down, naturally, and lias to be set and started iu again, only to go unwound, perhaps, for another two days. The watch experts ex-perts tell us that the worst thing that can happen to a watch is irregularity In winding. Ask almost any woman for the time, jiuul she glances dubiously at the plat-htmm plat-htmm bijou on' her arm and says: "I'm fast, I think." or "Sorry, my watch isn't running." Yet there are to be had excellent reliable timepieces that are encased In beautiful frames, If only we will buy them for the works and not for the case alone. But even these 'il become useless unless we wind thorn and have thorn regulated from time to time. |
