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Show E L C I N TIME • K E E P E R . • T O - T H E . S U C C E S S F U L Painted from life by WM.OBERHARDT My paragon of punctuality-keeping time as accurately as the Gray-Beard with the Scythe One of a series of little biographies of Elgin Watches WRITTEN BY EMINENT ELGINEERS Gentlemen who make pictures and books and plays and such things for the divertissement of their fellows, are not supposed to work by the watch. But even an artist has appoint' ments to keep, orders to fill, and the 5.15 to catch. And if he is habitually late for dinner, the cook will not stay. For many years, I might have been known as a "two watch man." I carried an opulent, turnip' shaped watch bequeathed to me by an ancestor - and another given me by an associate. Be tween the two, by checking one against the other and striking a happy mean, I managed to secure a fair approximation of the time. But one day, it dawned on me that it might not be economic wisdom to use two implements for the work of one. So I secured an Elgin-which has since be' come my paragon of punctuality -keeping time as remorselessly and accurately as the GrayBeard with the Scythe. by CHARLES DANA GIBSON ^ E LGIN THE'WATCH •WORD'FOR-ELECANCE'&'EFFICIENCY ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH COMPANY, ELGIN, U. S. A. |