Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-01-15
From Ine New York Round Table.
Beauty on Skatsg,


A pretty girl on skates, ifany girl on
skates can be otherwise than pretty,
clad in one OF those jaunty fur trimmed
peEssees that Cupid himself must have
fashioned the little form bending to
and fro in 'und dulous and Hh ythnli0 mo-
tion, the glowing cheeks and radiant
eyes kissed by kindly winter into ten-
fold beautyiis such g sight as lne hottest
and hardest of achorites might be par
doned for falling in love with. And il
she be, on the contrary, a poor skater,
the charm. IA, If anything, heightened
at least 20 her avalieFs There - such
an iFresistaloie fascfnatlOnein her abso-
Lutte dependence on his protecting arm :
there is such q charm In her pretty teF-
rors, her delicious helplessness, her
graceful tumbles; such 2 music in her
little shrfeks Of dread and her sslf-accu-
sing zIaugbter9 then it is 80 lieLightful TO
pick her up after each copleRl upset.
and she is throughQut so good natpreds
and so grateful, aud SO proXoktngly
adorable than II she siSated Ike q
championess. An iee-porid, TOO, on Q
bright, stlll night, With the 4loou aand
stars all in their places % smile sn-
couRaEfnR hpprawals is 1a bad plane to
make love ln- When the mQst aaored
Of Der sex aska YOU for e2ahapts, 60
CLASSY surface ff this isu't heavenly
and says eshe could 90 On so 1o1eFer,
what Is easier or mere natural thah %
press little tighter the tiny hand that
Is within your own, and Suggest that tt
Is heavenly, and thah A. VIII pe her
fault if you don't 60 on tofevers Or IL
she be one Of the tunbliuP kind, she a.
quite as likely TO observe when You
pick her up-not too quickly-for The
fifteenth time, that you are a dear,
eWees love, and what can she eyer do to
repay you, Whereupon YOU have.only 70
muFmur In her 5lushing ear that she
I can be yours, and the thing is settled
at once. Then there isailthat business
/ Of lacing and iirlacing skates, and but
i toninE and unbuttoning OF tppltss and
q thousand other delights that only the
1 Initiated know; and after all the brisk
walk home (no sensible skater ever
ridesl nnder the mild benedicli0n 81 the
! starlight. IL there be any OF our
readers whose memory does not hold q
better picture of this winter 1ovonce
| than any words ean give, he on she has
our conmiseration aud our council tobe
/ wiser hereafter. There are one Gf Two
drR " backs, however, even 10 this de-
/ lirhtful exercise skaters, and move
I especially those Of the gentler uno--
shall we add f--Piddier sex, are im the
1 habit of making too Asele provision
Rgainst the risk Of taking cold. sAfyor
4 getting into the violent glow on TIE ice
I f.1lesa 49, elllae
skitillne heat Ia th6 waitIug room 70
coax back the circulation into tue feet
/ which have been numbad by the tight-
/ ness Of the skate straps, retaining and
4 80 practically nautrAii1i their cioalEa
/ and faFs, and wraps Of al sorts. Then,
With lungs de1iiltated and system gen-
orally weakened by that residential
atmosphere, they ride for miles, (oi
I course we are speaHing again 81 New
/ York, but the analogy holds good el
most other pl0cea) in q vehicle which
/ admirably illustrates a truth not roc6s
/ nized by other people, that air may Do
I neomfortably cold without being a'
] for breathing. Next day a. q nature
i consequence, there are innuonEa and
l rheumatism aud nouralglas without
I number aud cerreap0udinEb blHsls from
I paterfamilias against the lailFg and
4 Wickeduess Df nAHtinE. But thls DANCE
can he averted With rensonable care and
4 prudence, and b. the use Of 5 skate
/ which dispenses Altogether With strans
i Ihere is such an one, Ne believe 4ii use
\ Witch can na attached % the sole Df tht
bout with screWsf hut itdemnnas Naf5
aante ilt tn the boot ana pongiaarahtl
u akili in the weRrer