Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-02-03
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Il pump or! III Il ltt "ieHA anu
striped stockings on Your lap is one
Of those jolly OH pa,times OF the
hygone days, when we were young
and or fathers and grand-fathers
We're young before us. Olympia has
been blessed with some glorious
moonlight evenings during the week
Just passing. and OUT Young hood
lums of both sexes have turned them
to good account with their sleds on
the hill slopins towards town from
the upper part of Main Street.
Four, five and SIX blocks, have Eeen
cleared with the swiftness of the
wind, hv these nocturnal jewellers.
! \ few evenings ago. the en-
ploycts of the railroad drove a brisk
, business III carving out skating
parties on the hand car to a lake
near the line Of the road; but even
Indifferent skating is too evanescent
il thing for this country. Our ponds
and lakes no sooner freeze over than
the Thermometer at the Signal Sta
ton proclains a thaw. and the fun
is ended in trice. One of the old
fashioned Probabilities of Olympia,
persists in saying that ever since the
establishment of the Signal office at
this place, there has been no more
dependence to be placed on the
ordinary ways of predicting the
changes of the moon, or the tickle
conceits of the weather, and he
straightway argues that the whole
system ought to be abolished by the
authority that created it.
But adverting once more to the
slippery subject of sliding down hill
with a plump girl in red dress on
your lap, why wouldn't it pay an
enterprisinS clap TO clear off one of
our neishboring hillsides and fit up
Il bona .hd- sliding rink? Residents
along the line of sidewalk now util-
lied for coastins purposes, complain
that the sleds collide with their
nicely painted fences and tear off the
plckets. Apropos TO this bad fea-
ture of the pastime, it is said to be
an observable fact that it is only
those sleds that carry double, which
do any mischief along the charm
ing incline. Here, then, is a
question for some aspiring men,
Der OF the defunct Academy of Sci
ences to answer. Does the pointed
fence attract the painted gill aud the
girl divert from its normal course
the bouncing sled with the red
dress on, or are we to look for
the ultimate cause of the difficulty
IN converse order of things? Is
the young man suddenly seized with
a ut OF emotional or inspirational in
sanity, to the end that he docs not
krow that he is committing an as
SAINT npnr lis neighbor's painted
picket fence; is he so absorbed in
the safety of biz plump girl as to be
obl;vious to all else around him ?
Does the picket girl in a red dress
Oh his lap so affect the visual organs
Oh the young man us to induce color
blindness, and thus prevent him
from seeing his headlight and that
all is right along his creamy path
way? All these, and many other
deeply absorbing questions, might
be profitably discussed and the out
come, herhaps, prove of incalculable
service to the world.
But we leave the subject with those
who are blessed with more inquir-
ing turn of mind than We possess.
A friend of ours says he wouldn't
mind doing the field work; that
is, he would be willing to do the
coasting with the sled and tho
girl, conduct all the experiments,
take all the observations and furnish
all requisite data. What say our
friends who delight in ubstruse cul.
culations?