Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-06-05
dOW TO WEAR WATCHES.
Where Time Pieccs Are Kept and
How They Are Fastened.

lion of the somewhat dull Sunday in oh
serving how men and women wear thei
watches. a few hours careful investi
CATION showed that the field was n wild,
one, and that there was large opportu
nitv for careful research. Some of tn,
results OF the investigation are noted
below:
In Denver during long and tediou!
periods of business dizziness and privat,
financial embarrassment many men and
some women do not wear their watches
mt ALL
In some instances this fact is owing
TO the fact that they never had any
watches to carry, and in others to the
fact that their watches needed cleaning,
and in consideration of that necessity
the baubleS were put in soak.
Some owners of valuable portable
time-pieceS feel Their first duty is to a
pressing landlady or overzealous res
taurant keeper. and have given their
watches to a pawnbrOker in order not
only to encourage legitimate line of
business upon the one hand, but also to
discourage any remarks of a personal
nature being made by the representa-
tives of business equally as reputable
upon the other.
While the reporter was thinking upon
the subject his mind wandered back a
few years to the time when Re was a
child. He was then close observer of
hau hi, I
was quite anxious to have a watch, and
was for n long time making up his mind
how he would wear one when he should
get it.
He noticed then that great many
people wore long neck chains. Ladies
of particularly angular style of beau
ty would have long strand of gold
running down from each side of the
neck over an eNpanse of silk. satin, or
other dress goods to some point near
the belt, where the glttering dream
would disappear. and WHERE the watch
would repose. The child had many
times stared mt one of these ladies,
doubtless to her great annoyance, with
the hope of seeing the watch, and some
times he was rewarded. The watch
would come TO view, and after inspec-
ton would disappear again. but he
never could tell just exactly whence it
came or whittier it went.
Some very fat old ladies wore those
kind of chains. and they generally
wore very shiny, black six dresses at
the same time. Then the mystery was
redoubled tenfold. For the chain
would descend. getting good start
across the ample bosom. and then glid-
ing through numerous black silk
wrinkles, glistening here AMI there with
dazzling uncertainty, finally make
plunge into an immense billow of sheen,
just where the Old lady would have
worn her belt, if nature and gener-
GUS living had allowed of such an adorn-
meDt.
One old gentleman of elephantine
build used to creak up the church aisle |
by the pew where this child sat every |
Sunday. In hot weather this old gen
tleman used to wear yellow nankeen
trousers and in winter he wor. wooden |
pantaloOns with stripes of gray and |
very dark blue. But hot or cold. rain
or shine, there always depended from
near the waistband of neither garments
a big fob-chain with large seals. The
old man walked slowly, and made the
floor of the church in his vicinity trem-
bic with every step, but despite the
moderation of his walk and the eager
ness with which that chain was watch
ed, only an indefinite idea of the article
was ever gained. Whether there was
only one seal or half dozen upon the
end of the fob, the child could not know:
he only had an indistinct vision of a
heavy mass of gold which he thought
must be worth dead loads of money.
There was thin old gentleman, also.
who used to have long gold chain and
presumably watch at the end. The
watch was matter of faith, but the
chain was tangible. One end was caught
by a hook VIII ch represented a tiny
snake into the lower buttonhole of his
Vest, and the other enl disappeared into
little pc 'ket ut the top of the mans
pants. an the CHI Ill used TO wonder if
The thin nun over took off his vest in n
hurry without thinking OF the watch.
whether or not he would swear when
The strain came.
The style of wearing watches has
Uttered somewhat in this degenerated
ige The fob. which the large old gen
'lemen wore, and which was considered
out OF style then. has come in again.
Inc Jobs, however, are generally of
black ribbon, with gold buckle. or
something of that sort, TO relieve the
'omber plainness.
Many nice, pretty young men. who
always have their hair nicely brushed.
and who have either small. genteel
nustaches, with the ends curlcd up. or
Use have neat side-whiskers, blonde
'olored. and combei right and left. for
he wind to blow through; many of these
wear double" watch-chains. which
ravei across their vests with depot or
'lgnal station at their vest pocket upon
zach side of the young man, and the
puzzle Is to decide in which pocket is
he watch. Sometimes it is i'm neither.
Many ladies wear their watches now
n little pockets upon the left breast.
With pretty short chains running ont TO d!
he buttons OF their dresses. and re-
nlnding one of little boats moored to a
uoy. Many more of them wear the
ute little chatelaines made like fob Il.
nam and hanging from the belt At !
ne end are cunning little watches .
bout the size of half-tlollar.
But, as before minated, the task of
cling how chains are worn is easier !.
nan telling about the watches.