Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-18
OUTDOOR SPORTS.
IDetroit Free Press.

The season has now arrived when outdoor
sports are Gpr0pOS. The caterpillar has left
his den, the mosquito has turned over i'm bed
and uttered warning shrek, and big green
worms are Skylarking around on shade trees
and betting on their chances of dropping do wn
behind man coat collar
One of the leading lawn sports is called
Push and Cut" 1t is played with machine
called lawn mower: These machines are
neatly put up, beautifully painted, and will
make racket in any climate. The player
SEXES them by convenient handle and
pushes them toward the grass on trOt. The
game is to find an old hOOpskirt, paint key,
UPSTREAM or catSUp- bottle in the grass. After
twO or three lessons the player will be amazed
at his good luck in finding these things and
ing leap over the machine when it strikes an
Old beef bone in the grass, but the rules of the
game are liberal in this respect. The player
can, if he prefers, rush against the handle and
Knock corner OF his chin or bang his chest
bone back into corner.
Another interesting lawn game is played as
follows:
At the supper table the wife remarks:
James, | want ten dollars to fix up nv
summer silk. Don't go away without leaving
It..
James makes no reply, but manages to slip
out OF the house unseen He is stealing softly
across the lawn to jump over the fence at the
corner, when his vile comes ruShiag out and
eHclaimS:
James. James, See here!''
He begins 10 sIuint into cherry tree and
talk about moths.
You walk back here and hand over that
cash or ! II send Tor my mother to come and
stay all summer"
According to the rules of the game he turns
and looks at her. and mutters TO himself
" That willis ME!
1.-THE idea of your skulking off like that"
she continues, when he advances. hands out
the ~, and II he can convince hnr that he
had as soon give her go as $40, he wins the
game.
Another out-doOr game is played between
ten O'Clock in the evening and midnight in
order to avoid the heat of the sun. 1t is PLAYED
altogether by married people. Nine O'clock
having arrived, and the husband not having
reached home, the indignant wife nails down
the windows, locks all the doors, and goes to
bed feeling as If she could smash her partner
IN minute and a-half. Along about eleven
o'clock Charles Henry begins to play his part
In the game He is suddenly seen under the
kitchen windows He seeks to raise, it, He
tries another and another, but the sash won't
hit. Then he softly tries all the doors Bat
they are locked. The rules of the game allow
him eo make some remarks at tniS juncture
and If generally begins to rain about this mo
ment. AS ne gets under the shelter of the gar
den rake he muses.:
Nice way to treat me because found a
stranger on the walk with a broken leg aud
took him TO the hospital
As the rains comes harder he boldly climbs
the front steps and rings the bell. After about
ten minutes the door is opened, hand reaches
out and pulls him into the hall, and the game
goes on:
'Oh! you vile wretch
.. "Jarling, whdz mazzer-whaz IL it, Jar
nng?'
Don't darling me. Here il is almost dav
light, and I've ShIvered and tremOled. and
brought on nervous fever which may carry
me To my grave"
"Jarling. 1 found leg on the sidewalk wiz
broken man, and
This game is always won by the wife.
Another, and the last outdoor game to be
descrlbed here is called: Waiting for Her
Darling woman waits for her husband to
spade up a flower bed. The eastern cues ion
abSOrDs his whole time. She goes out To Weld
ihe spade herself. The game is Very brief She
tries TO dig in the spade by pressing with both
1eet at once, and when she gets up and dashes
INTO the house she realizes that she rolled over
three times and barked her nose against the
lron vase and that four carriages were right
opposite the house at the time. She NAV have
speech to deliver when her husband comes
y dinner, but the husband wins the game-it
Is SO in the rules.