Litchfield enquirer., 1860-02-16
A SKATERS EXPERIENCE.

a Une of the editors of the Milwaukee Neacs s-- Pomerey--thus relates bis pleas ures, of skating" We think it not improb- able that others may see themselves through tpeor Pomeroy's glasses. At any rate it is one phase of" Life Illustrated.l
 ias4" Right beneath one oc our windows, from morn till midnight. we see youngsters and oldsters twisting their legs into all conceiv- aoie sahapes. We cannot pick up paper
 put an article on Skating meets the eye. Everybody says it's fun, and that's all 'ev- fcrybody' knows about it. for we have tried
 it. Last night, about gas-light time, after
 reading Q very glowing description of life on
 skates, we prepared for our first attempt,
 and sailed forth4to join the merry crowd. We had on a pair of stogn boots, trowser
 legs tucked inside, q Robert-tailed coat. and
 white hat. We went down on the ice, and gave a boy two shillings in good coin of the realm for the use of the implements. We have confidence, even as great as Peters ffaith. We. with the assistance of friend, fixed on the skates, and stood erect like q barber's pole. ea rss s-.. |.
 |. Encouraged at the sight of some ladies on the bridge looking at the skaters, we struck out. A slant to the right with the | right foot, a slant to the left with the left foot, and just then we saw something on the ice, and stopped over to pick it up. On our feet again-two slauts to the right and one slant to the left accompanied with loss of confidence. Another stride with the right foot, and we sat down with fearful rapidity, and with very little, if any, elegance What a set down it was-for We made dent in the
 ice not unlike Connecticut butter bowl !! Just then one of the ladies remarked, Oh, look, Mary. that ,feller with the white hat ain't got his skates on the right place!' Dit to, thought we. Just then ragged little 1 imp sang out, as he passed us, '" Hello, old timber legs" and we arose suddenly, and put after him. Three slides to the right, two to the left, and away went our legs one to the cast, and the other west, causing an immense Assure in our pants, and another picture of a butter-tray in the colG-oh, ho,o
 old-ice ! Then the lady--we kLow she was one by the, remark she made--again spoke, aud said, " Oh, look, Mary, that chap i,as sat down on his handkerchief to keep from taking coIdv' We rose about us grace ful as a saw-horse, when Mary said, Guess 'taint a handkerchief, Jane," and Mary was right. It wasn't handkerchief, not bit oft! Just then friend came along, and prottrred us his coat-tail as 'steader' We accepted the continuation of his garment, and up the river we went about ten rods when shy to the right by the leader causep us, the wheel horse, to shoot off on tan gent, heels up! But the ice is rery cold this season.
 |" We tired it again. A glide one way, a glide and half the other, when uhaek came our bump ot Philoprogcnitiveness on the ice, and we saw a million of stars dancing round our eyes, like troupe of ballet girls at the Bowcry Theatcr. How that shock went through nnr system, and up and down our spinal column! Lightning couIuTT have corkscrewed it down a greascd supling with greater speed and more exhilarating effect. Boarding house butter, nor warranty deed, could not have struck stronger than we did --and dozen ladies looking at us, aud our
 Gssured' pants!
 Hello, old cockr sang out that ragged imp again, aud we there helpless. Seen we got up, and made another trial with better success Perhaps we had skated, in our pe- culiar style, fifteen feet, when blundering chap came up behind, when we sat down, with our tired head pilowed in his Ian, and he swearing at ns, when it was all his own fault! How cold the ice was there, too! Every spot where We made our debut OH the ice-oh, how cold it was! Our bear skia drawers Were no pi piotcction at all. We tried again, for the papers all say it's fun, and down came our Roma,-Grecian nose on the cold julep material, and the little drops of crimson ran down our shirt bosom, and on to the cold ice. Once more we tried skating, mode for the shore, sat down, and counted damages. aEE fas | al
 " Two shillings in cash thrown away. Sev- en lateral and one 'lronterap bumps OH the ice. One immense Assure in as handsome pair of ten dollar caSsmeres as ever man put his legs in. One rupture in the knee, extending to the bone. Four buttons from our vest, Augmented watch crystal, aud a backuche, big enough to divide among the children of Israel. If you ever catch us on the smooth, glassy, chilly, freezing, trcacherous, deccitful, slippery, and slpup- pery ice again. you'll know it. If any one ever hears of our skating again, they will please call on us at sight, for the bivalves and accompanying. documents. We have got through skating It's humbug It's a vexation of spirit, of business, and tearer of trowsers! It's a head-bumping, back aching, leg-wear;ng, dangerous institution. aud we warn people against skating We tried it, and shan't be able to walk for month to come. Skating clubs are hum bug, and all the rascally youngsters wish to get the ladies at it, that they may see if they, too, don't say, the ice as q, eadful coldg It's nothing to us. but the ladies will do well to let skates alone, unless they are younger and more elastic than we are. Oh, how cold the ice is--soe can feel hyet" -' s.-
 HINTS TO You've MEN.-Don't stay later than eleven o'clock when you. spend the evening with pretty friend--the wisest and wittiest man in Christendom becomes abore after that hour. 7 5.l 9gsasI9 siAf is as Don't believe any woman to be an angel. If you feel any symptoms, of that disease, take a dose of sage tea and go to bed--it is as much a nnalady as the small pox. and it is yonr business 10 get over it as quickly as possible. An angel, indeed! If yon don't ind ont pretty soon that she lacks mistaken! @ Hi9S 53 And. above all, don't imagine that you must keep yonr lady-talk and gentlemen-talk in seperate budgets, labeled and sorted, uT- less you want the girls to langh in their sleeves at your wishy.washy sentimentalisms. Talk to them in frank, manly style. as von wOuId fo an inteltirenf rentlemail Don't