The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-01-19
THE HON e.
THE CARE OF A WATCH,

THE CARE OF A WATCH.
Tnere is no other personal belonging to
which good care is more essential than
watch, and hardly any other that is more
recklessly ill-used. The baby plays with 1t,
the housewife lays sticky fingers upon it; it
is left open at night for convenience, or SUBJ
jected to alterations of heat and cold by be.
ing hung against the chimney fiue. There is
the highest authority for saying that the best
place for watch is it's owners pocket. The
pocket should be a cleanone, and the watch
be further protect by a chamois bag. 1t
should be wound up with, even, steady mo-
tion, not too fast or too slow, and as near as
possible at the same hour of the day. Morn.
ing Is the best time for it, and If 1t is done
while the watch has still an hour or two to
run, there will be much less wear and tear of
the handspring. Ia fact, paradoxcal as it
by running one day In ten. as 1t would If
kept going all the time. Let 1t lie fiat as
little as possible. When not in the pocket.
keep It hanging by Its ring in case of some
Never leave the case open the night through
If you need to do 1t for even an hour, be
careful to wipe all dust from the crystal be-
fore closing II. No case ever, yet made is
members occupation would be well-nigh
gone-since 1t is the dust sitting in that not
merely clogs the wheels and turns the oil on
the pivots to gum, but acts as emery would,
and wears away the works until they utterly
fail to keep time. Avoid jarring your watch,
under pain OF having 1t stop and stop until
it grows WORTHLESS as a timepece. DO not
| pin your faith too closely on its accuracy,
| either. With the very best of movements,
variations will sometimes occurr. Heat, cold,
| motion, vibration, location, any or all may
make your watch fast or slow. One reason
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timekeepers is that they are SO irregularly
| worn-hence have about three days out of
seven. widely different environment.
| Never use chalk, whiting or any sort of
and use only clean chamois or bit of soft
SILK. Beware of even a suspicion of moisture e.
A watch had nearly as ell fall upon rock
as into water. If, by chance such a thing
happens, put the watch at once into alcohol
whisky will not do-aDd leave 1t until you
can hand it over to the matchmaker.
ABOUT CUTTING MATERIALS.
| In cutting velvet, great care must be taken
so that it all shades dark alike on looking
from the top downwards, this can be easily
ascertained by holding the velvet In the
hand and looking selvedge way down it; one
way it will shade lighter than the other. II
1t Is to be used cut On the bias, be careful t.
| get true bias before you compence. cutting
| your trimming. te- nc amount of care will
enable you to make the folds set properly
unless such is the case. The pile OF velvet
or yelveteen feels rougher towards the hand
as y0n pass 1t downwards over it when it is
rightly placed, and should be brushed in the
contrary direction to her materials; thus,
you would brush velvet bodice from the
waist to the throat. If you cannot decide
which is the right and wrong side of a
| twilled material, hold the selvedge down,
and see that the twill goes from right to left
| upwards. Cashmeres are twilied only on
one side; French merinos on both. They. as
| right side out.