The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-25
KANSAS BAR HERE WATCH WILL STAY
Lawyers VIII Hold Annual Discharged Soldiers Are Keep
Meet Jan. 80 and 81. ing "Tickers" Wrist
State Sessions Defends Merit
Supreme Court Rooms. of His Timepiece.
NATIONAL PRESIDENT TO SPEAK WAR KILLS. FEwNISM IDEA
Keene viii Also jewelers. Say It'll Ouve Its
Be Program. Wartime Fad
BANQUET Masonic Manufacture Thing oil
Friday Evening Great Possibilities
Discharged Soldiers Are Keep
ing "Tiekers" on Wrist.
Senator Malone Defends Merit
Of His Timepiece.
WAR KILLS. FEvINISM IDEA
Say It'll Outlive Its
Wartime Fad.
Future Manufacture a Thing OF
Great Possibilities.

Senator James Malone. of the big
northwestern district. is the only
member of the upper house of the
legislature who continually displays a
wrist watch. 1t may seem strange
that the senator from the far west
comes to the near east and sets the
pace in time styles-but there's a
reason.
Senator Malone is one of the army
of ex-army men who are returning to
civilian life and are making a deter
mined campaign to popularize tick
ers on the wrist-or hands on the
wrist. II you prefer.
They are doing it everywhere. The
soldiers and the sailors discard their
uniforms just as soon possible after
they return home. But they keep
their wrist watches in practically
every instance. An ex-officer in the
senate was asked about this today and
said.
Wrist Watch To Stay.
I'm my opinion the wrist watch has
come to stay. am going to continue
to wear mine because "A watch on
the wrist is handler and more services
able than one in the pocket. 1t il
much easier TO just bend your arm
and find out what time IL is than to
have to tumble around in your pocket
to get at your timepiece. The greatest
convenience of the wrist watch comes
In on cold day when you are all
buttoned up in your oyercoat and
want to know the time If your watch
Is In your vest you have to inhibition
Doth your over and under coats But
II 1t IS on your arm all you have TO
do Is look. am confident it will take
more than frown from Judge Landis
to keep civilians from taking I'D the
wrist watch custom"
Jewellers also will tell you that the
wrist watch is going to outiive its
wartime fad and become a perma-
nently popular piece of jewelry. They
assert that all notions that wrist.
watches We're signs of feminism have
already been killed and that their
universal use in the army has given
| II as much of a masculine standing as
the big silver hunting case pocket
| clock ever had
Make EN- Better Now.
jewelers. assert that wrist watches
| are now being made much more care
fully and that IT will only be a short
time until the larger manufacturers
viii be turning them out In prices
ranging from the less expenskve to
those far in excess of anything now
| charged for watches.
| The wrist watch is more adapted TO
| decorations and adornments than the
old style watches. and 1t is expected
that 1t will not be long until diamond
| studded, platinum mounted models
will be shown. Also. IL is expected
| that much ingenuity will be shown in
decorating and dolling up the wrist
straps But. in the meantime. Sena-
tor Malone is going TO wear his, which
has very unpretentious leather strap.
but which serves its purpose adj
mirably.