They Change Their Time

There appears to be some occult 1 newtion between a watoh and lts owner. Else why should a timepiece go at one speed on one person and at a different one on another? Read what a jeweler has to say about the matter, says the Home Journal. "I used to have a friend who had an excellent Swlss watch, wille I had one of another make. By mutual consent at one time we exchanged watches and though they had gone all rlght before they cihanged their gait entlrely, mine running five minutes anead in a couple of days and hls running flve minutes behind. There was ten minutes' difference in our temperament. But that is nothlng compared to the differenee between some people. Sometimos a watch Ihat will run well on one man will not go with another and there are some people who oannot get a watoh that will run on them at all. I remembr a good many years ago I had a man come to my place with an old-fashloned Bngllsh lever watch to be repalred. I had some very nlce gold watehes In stock at the time and as he looked well off I tried to sell him one but he laughed and said if any of the gold watches I had in the store would run twen.ty-four hours in his pocket he would give me twice what I asked for it. He said he had tried all sorts of gold watches and had never been able to get one that would run while he had it. He had experimented with his brother's watch only a little whlle before, he said, and it oost him $3.50 to have it demagnetlzed after he had carrled H in hls pocket two days. Most silver watche3 acted the same way with him but the old Ënglish watch he was carryiag had a doublé inside case to it and worked falrly well. I've never been able to teil whether the average watch will run faster when it Is in its owner's possession or not. There seems to be no rule on the subject, but I can never regúlate a watch on my swingboard there and then give it to a cu3tomor and have it keep good time. Then there is a variation with a change of vitality. A watch will ordinarily run slower the longer it is carried after cleaning, because the oll dries and the hearings are harder, but I have had customers come to me and say tiheir watches had started up and gone to paining time several months after they had been cleaned. I just teil them I can't account for it except on a theory of a change in thelr own vitality and temperament. It's one of those things that cannot be explalned but it is true, nevertheless."