Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — The Woman and the Watch. [ARTICLE]

The Woman and the Watch.

Did you ever notice a lady go into a, watch store to have her watch set? She marches up to the counter with the sweetest of smiles. She pulls out the dainty little thing, looks at it affectionately and then up at the clock, with a look as if she were so very sad because the dear watch was sick. Then she hands it to the handsome young man who exhibits the imitation gems laid carefully out for show m a .glass case. She beams upon him and then she says, so prettily: “Will you please set this watch for me?” “Certainly; with pleasure.” The handsome young man in a perfectly practical way, takes a little instrument out of a‘drawer, turns the watch over on its face and prepares to open the back of it. Then you want to look. There is a little scream, a rush, a grab, and the fair one has recovered the precious article. Why does she scream and grab ? She’s got a picture of her best beau in the inside of the case. That’s all. And she goes home and sets the watch herself in the seclusion of her silk-lined, beautiful boudoir, There are so many secrets about a woman that every female child should be born with a chart.— San Francisco Chronicle. Consult the lips for opinions, the conduct for convictions.