Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-30
ROLLER SKATING.
The Sensations Felt by the Gliding
Skater-Skates That Go so Fast a Man
Can't Keep Up with Them.

The Sensations Felt by the Gliding
Skater-Skates That Go so Fast Man
Can't Keep Up with Them.
''It's a dissipation; most beguiling
dissipation" said a knight of the roller
skates, as he came down upon the Wash
ingtOn Star man with a rush and bump
and swung around on the handrail. "A
most delightful dissipation"
That's all right" suggested the scribe.
but next time don't be so violent. Begin
putting on brakes little sooner. Don't
come down like train off the track
well, you'll get used to that" replied
the knight, as one foot shot up and the
four little wheels sang tune in the
scribe's ears. "You see they haven't any
brakes, and the only time they're to be
trusted Is when they're III motion. They
are always in"-crack. rattle, crash,
bang, whir-r-r-''mOtiOn:" and he cut an
erratic figure around the hand-rail, while
his feet glided and frisked about each
other in eccentric curves and angles.
"You see they don't stay still" He bit
the last word off suddenly as his chin
came down on the rail. Then he sat on a
convenient bench and took both feet up in
his lap, as be continued the conversation.
''Its delightful. When you first get to
going you think you are a waltz; then
YOU are a whirlwind, and then cyclone.
You are whirling through space. You
are happy. You're reckless. The music
joins in, and you are sailing through the
clouds. There is an ecstacy of delirium.
You're intoxicated with motion. IOu
might drink champagne until you thought
yourself lord. You might waltz until
you were a fairy. You might smoke
opium until your fancies flew into the
realms of dream-land, with all its flowers
and music and crystal fOuntains-but all
that don't come near these rolling ma
chimes. They wheel you into the ecstscy
Of the unknown. You glide round and
round and round faster and faster, until
your head turns, and you don't know
whether You are going or not. You'd
forget about the wife and babies at horne,
you'd forget your dinner, you'd forget
and keep on going. Everybody else is
going, the music's going, the walls are
dancing, the floor is slipping out from
under you. You are picked up and
whirled up into the clouds. And then
"Well, you wouldn't mind little thing
like that. just pick Yourself up and go
on whirling. The girl who just sat down
on you puts her little hand in yours Git
don't matter if you never saw her betore);
you put your arm under hers and take
hold of the hand on the other side. Then
you 90 it double. You don't have to say
anything; every round you make you get
closer together. You forget your S.
week and she fOrgets that her papa's a
Judge. Well, it's delightful" and he let
60 his feet, that had been struggling to
get away, and, with sudden lurch, shot
out into the whirl.
II a girl goes to a skating rink and don't
elOpe with the rink master, its because
she can't stop skating long enough. The
Star man put on pair of rollers, and was
at once seized with desire TO elOpe. He
might have done so, if it hadn't been for
the general cussedness of the skates.
They are worse than wings for flying.
They are more erratic than a mule. Go
as fast as ever you can, they are bound to
be faster than you are, and they have a
way of stopping to kick up when you are
IN the most interesting part Of the per.
torrance. They are wOrse than a buck
ing mustang. Their chief purpose seems
to be to do something unexpected, and
the best way TO learn how to use them is
to sit down TO it.
But that comes natural to beginner.
The desire to elOpe strikes you the first
time you sit down. There's lots of fun
in roller skating, all the boys and girls
like it. It's just the thing for girl with
a small fortune, and a great deal Of ro-
ma