The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-24
A short Chapter on Outdoor
Sports.

Detroit Free Pres
The season has now arrived when out
door sports are apropOs. The caterpillar
has left his den, the mosquito has turned
in bed and uttered a warning shrek, and
big green worms are skylarking around
on shade trees and betting on their
chances OF dropping down behind a mans
coat collar.
One Of the leading lawn sports is cal.
led aPush and Cut" 1t is played with 8
machine called a lawn.mower. These
machines are neatly put up, beautifully
painted, and will make a racket in any
climate. The player seizes them by a
convenient handle and pushes them
towards the green on 4 tret. The game
Is to End an old ~hoop.skirs paint.keg,
oyster. can or catsup.bottles in the grass.
Alter two or three lessons the player will
be amazed at his good luck in finding
these things and making tally.marks.
Some players take flying leap over the
machine when 1t strikes an old beef bone
in the grass, but the rules Of the game are
liberalfn that respect. The player can,
II he prefers, rush against the handle and
knock q corner of his chin or bang his
chestbone back into q corner.
Another interesting lawn game is play
ed a. follows:
AT the supper table the wife remarks:
aJames, / want ten dollars to FIX up my
summer silk. Don't go away without
leaving it."
James makes no reply, but manages to
slip out oil the house unseen. He Is steal
ing softly across the lawn to jump over
the fence at the corner, when his vile
comes rushing out and exclaimes:.
james James See here
He begins to squint into . cherry tree
and talks about moths.
"You walk back here and hand over
that cash or I'll send for my mother to
come and stay all simmer |"
According to the rules Of the game he
turns and looks at her, and muttess to
himself:
@That willis men ..
aThe idea ofyour skulking of like thail'
abe continues, when he advances, hands
out the X" and il be . convince her
that he had as soon give her $50 a. $40,
he wins the game.
Another outdoor game Ia played be-
tween Ten o'clock in the evening and mid
night, in order to avoid the heat Of the
sun. It Is played altogether BY married
people. Nine o'clock having arrived,
and the husband not having reached home,
the indignant wife nails down the win.
dows, locks all the doors, and goes TO bed
feeling o. II she could smash her partner
In a minute and a.half. Along about
eleven o'clock Charles Henry begins to
play his part In the game. BE Is sudden
" seen under the kitchen window. He
seeks TO raise 1t. BE tries smother and
another, but the sash won't lift. Then he
softly tries all the doors, but they {
locked. The rules Of 1.-THE game allow him
to make some remarks at this i%unct1re,
and Il generally begins 70 rain about this
moment As he gets under the shelter OF
the garden rake he muses.: 4,
gNice way TO treat me because l found
stranger on the walk with 9 broken leg
and took him 10 the hospital
As the rain comes harder be boldly
climbs the front steps and rings the bell.
After about ten minutes the door Is open
ed, hand reaches out and pulls him into
he hall, and the game goes n
Gohi you vile wretch"
aJarllng, Whaz maEzer-Whaz iEit, jar
sDon't darling me. Here il is almost
DAYLIGHT and I've shiyered and trembled,
and brought on a nervous fever which
NAV carry me TO my gravel
4Jarling, found Aleg on the sidewalk
wiz broken man, and-P
This game Is always won BY the vile.
Another, and the last outdoor game
IN be described here IL called; Waiting
for her Darling" A woman waits for
her husband 10 spade up . fower.bed.
The eastern question absorbs his whole
time. She goes out to WELD the spade
berself. The game Is very brief. She
tries 10 dig In the spade by pressing with
both feet It once, and when she gets up
ana dashes into the house she realizes
that he rolled over three times and bar;
ked her nose against the iron vase, and
that four carriages were right opposite
the house Al the time. She may have q
speeeh 10 deliver when her husband comes
70 dinner, but the husband wins the game
III Il no In the rules.