River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-07-25
Outdoor Sports for the Season,

The season has now arrived when out
door sport are apropos. The caterpillar
hasleft his den, the mesquite has turned
over in his den and uttered a warning
shrek, and big green worms are skylark-
ing around on shade trees and betting on
their chances of dropping behind mans
coat-coIlar.
One OF the leading lawn sports is
called "Push and cut" 1t is played with
a machine called lawn mower. These
machines are neatly put up, beautifully
painted. aud will make a racket in any
climate. The payer seizes them by a
convenient handle and pushes them to-
wards the grass on trot. The game is
to ind an old hoopskirt, paint keg, oys-
ter can or catsup bottle in the grass. AT
ter two Oh 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 it hits 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 a corner off his chin or bang
his chest-ben back into corner.
Another interesting lawn game Is play
d as follows: At the supper table the
wife remarks:
flames, want SO to fix up my sum-
mer silk. Don't go away without leay-
ing it."
James makes noreply but manages TO
slip out of the house unseen. He is seen
kb
over the fence at the corner, when his
wife comes rushing out and exclaims:
james Jamesi See herel"
He begins to squint into cherry tree
and talks about moths.
You walk back here and hand over
that cash or III send tor my mother to
come and stay all summerw
According to the rules Of the game he
turns and looks at her, and mutters to
himself
THAT willis mem
"The idea of your sku!king off like
thatr' she continues, when he advances,
hands out the *, /" and if he can convince
her that he had as soon give her $50 as
$40, he wins the game.
Another outdoor game is played be-
tween 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 ar
rived and the husband rot having reach
ed home. the indignant wife nails down
the windows locks the doors, and goes TO
bed feeling IS if she could smash her
partner in minute and half. Along
about eleven o'clock Charles Henry be-
gins to play his part in the game. He is
suddenly seen under one of the Kitchen
windows He seeks 70 raise II. He tries
another and another, but the sash went
lit. Then he softly tries all the doors,
but they are locked. The rules Of the
game allow him to make some remarks
at this juncture, and it generally begins
to rain about this moment. As he gets
under the shelter of the garden rake he
muses.:
"Nice way to treat me because found
stranger on the walk with broken leg
and took him to the hospital"
As the rain comes harder he boldly
climbs the front steps and rings the bel
After about ten minutes the door is
opened, hand reaches out and pulls him
iXto the hall, and the game goes on:
"Ohl you vile wretch
"Darling, whaz mazzer -whaz is it,
jarIing?n
Don't darling me. Here it is almost
daylight, and I've shivered and trembed,
and brought on q nervous fever which
may carry me to the gravel"
"Jarling, found leg on the sidewalk
wiz broken man and
This game is always won by the wife.
Anof her, and the last, outdoor gam
o be described here, is called ''Waiunge
for her Darling A woman waits or
her husband to spade up the fower-bed
The Eastern question absorbs his whole
time. She goes out to WELD the spade
herself The game is very brief. She
tries to dig in the spade by pressing with
both feet at once, and when she gets up
and dashes it into the house she realizes
that she rolled over three times, and
barked her nose against the iron vase and
that four carriages were right oppOs-
lite the house at the time. She may have
a speech to deliver when her husband
comes to dinner, but the husband wins
the game-it is so in the rules.