Cheap Watches

1895

It is to the late Aaron L. Dennison of Birmingham, England, more than to any one else that we owe cheap watches, which were never so abundant and so well made as now. Though he died in England, he was a Yankee and the father of watchmaking by machinery in America. It was in 1850 that he completed his model of the first watch of the pattern in use today. Previous to that time watches had been made by handwork, and the idea of making them in quantities on the interchangeable system was undreamed of. — New York World.


Tea Biscuit

It is a mistake to make a large tea biscuit properly speaking, a tea biscuit should not be more than 2 inches in diameter and proportionately thick when baked. This gives a delicate, moist, flaky biscuit, which will be cooked through before the outside crust has become hard or overbrown.