The Archive · 1939

Time and the Dinner Table

A watchless bride is a lucky find which you must not count on making. But one watch is no more adequate to good living than one- pair of shoes or one hat. There is definitely the workaday and us [or "Mother" or "Granny" as the case the elegant in. watches, and it is a may be] that lovely jam jar." Could aught happy she who is supplied with both. within reason be denied to him or her?

Timely gifts, too, are clocks—for who is not Surely great are the recompenses of the irritated by the cry of "What's the time wedding presentor. [with its strong temptation to reply "Go and Yet some misanthrope lately darkened

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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