Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1913 — What Interested Her. [ARTICLE]

What Interested Her.

"When we visited Greenwich Observatory,” said the traveler, “I set my match by the observatory clock. Since everybody else who has a watch does that, nobody paid any attention to me, but my wife created a big enough sensation for both of us. “Bhe had done a little shopping before we went down to Greenwich. In her handbag she carried a remnant of lace. Far more attractive to her than the observatory’s clock were the little iron pegs driven into the observatory wall, which representedMhe true measure of the British yard, two feet, one foot, six inches, and three inches. “Just at one o’clock out came her bit of lace, and at the minute when everybody else stood impressed with the fact that standard time for a large part of the civilized world was being set within those walls, my wife stood before the iron pegs calmly measuring lace.”