St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-05

barbarous Latin. The wonder is, not
that Mr.. Adams should protest against
this moss backed college pedantry, bnt
that in this age a man should be found
TO make, minority report against
him. Rutland Herald.
MIR. cEEvELANp's- BIG JOB. -.
Democrats in Congress are asking
each other how the party will fare in
the Senate if Mr.. Cleveland calls Bay
ard, Lamar and Garland into his cabi-
net. The question is n serious one for
them, particularly as the senator's
elect will do nothing toward illing
such gaps. When EdmUuds, Hoar and
sherman lead an attack on the admin
istratiou, men like German OF ,lsnas
will not do AS opponents. The at
tempt of the democratic party to hold
the fort as administrators of the gov
ernment will bring out many points Of
interest To the political observer, and
the gentlemen of the opposition are
bound to have a good deal of enjoy
ment out of the situation. The head
of the government will have to plan
on large scale to protect the weak
spots in a party that has been. accus-
toned to act rs the minority Spring
field Republican.
THE CASE AGAINST SKATING Kinks.
The discussion over the moral and
physical effects of roller skating Kinks.
which has been going on quietly ever
since they were started, now breaks
out all ut once over the country in an
attack npon them from both stand
points of regard-the doctors of the
10 no haf
results cannot he good and may he
bad to the last degree. The physical
objection to the Kinks is that roller
skating is a dangerous form of exercise,
especially for girls and young women,
and for reasons which are Inherent in
their bodily structure. Skating on ice
even has some perils in this direction,
but the rollers on the waXed floor are
much less under control than the steel
blades on the shining ice. and the
strains and falls on the moonlit pond
are as nothing to those in the heated
rink. But this Is not the serious as
pect of the roller rink. The grave
dangers there are these of promiscu-
Gus assemblage; and are not therefore
different from those of n public ball in
kind, but only i'll degree, and whoever
has witnessed the two will readily see
that the degree and description of de
mOralizing contact occasionally occur
ring) are greater in the rink than the
ballroom. 1t is true that the sport OF
roller skating might be so regulated
and restricted as to simply furnish
! pleasant entertainmcnt-as where chill
dren only should take part, or where
carefully chosen parties should meet :;
but il is obvious that a rink conducted
as place of popular entertainment
cannot be subject t" such conditions
and cautions. The moralist, taking I'm
outside and impartial view of these
matters, must in conscience condemn
all occasions of the pr0miscuous gath
ering of young people without guardi-
ans as sure to be mischievous in their
associations and opportunities, and to
have coarsening and cOrrupting eff
feet. The main objection
is still moral. And there is no ques-
ton that every enlightened mother
who desires 20 bring her children up
in the path of honor and virtue and
purity avoids for them the public dance
and the public rink. The youth may
sustain the trial uncontaminated, but
it is not the part of wisdom to subject
them to so unnecessary and unTecOm-
pensing a risk Springfield Republi-
can.