Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1912 — WAYS OF CARRYING WATCH [ARTICLE]

WAYS OF CARRYING WATCH

There Seems to Be No Set Fashion, and Many Methods Are in General Use. Modern ingenuity has devised all sorts of odd places to carry the watch. It is strung around the neck as a pendant, worn as a bracelet, forms the head of a parasol handle, or is' tucked in the corner of a card case. One girl has had her tiny watch set as the lid of her vanity box, which she wears on a fob; another has a watch set as the head of one hat pin, while the other is a vanity box. A curious watch set as a seal ring for the little finger was one of the purchases brought home from Switzerland by a woman with money enough to go in for novelties. A specially handsome setting for a desk watch for a drawing room is a deep silver frame of repousse silver, the face of the frame rounded to the depth of an inch, and three Inches wide. The back of the frame Is also silver.

Very new is a writing pad and blotter with corners of heavy brocade and a tiny gilt watch set in one corner. This js more than a trinket, as the works are said to be unusually good. It Is convenient in traveling when the Besk watch is not carried. Many of the new handbags have watches set in them, sometimes in one of the inner compartments; again, on the outside in one of the lower corners. They are an undoubted convenience for shopping. Another watch is set in the side of a leather box, which contains compartments for note and address books and a smelling bottle.