New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-13
COOP AND EVIL or RoLLER-SKATIyG.
MIR. TALMAGE EXPRESSES HIS vrEws-FLIRTATIoS
AND DAMNAIlON.

MIR. TALMACE EXPRESSES HIS NlLNo-fIltlAl
AND DAMNAIION.
Mr. Taimages announcement that he would
give bis views in regard skating had the effect
of filing the Brooklyn Tabernacle yesterday morning To
OVERLOOKING lie took his text from Ezekiel. "Ihe
noise Of the wheels over against them G ", 49,, and
also from Nahum OIL, % "The noise Of the rafting
of the wheels" In the Of HIS remarks Mr. Tai
mage said: In passage there arc the wheels OF
health ana IN the other tue wheels OF ruin In our day
liberty the wheel has been applied TO recreation ana
amusement. Never IA your time or mine has there been
such wild" popular agitation OF the question oil anuSe-
anon. the ministers OF tho Gospel For the past
twenty-five years have constantly been looking for
some amusement heaiIy interesting useful Innocent
amusement, and OF this KIND you know as well as do
that there is an awful scarcity Thcre IS no Lack OF
gabmling saloons where the great spider of the
gaming table devOurs the innocent flies ana where you
can lose from 10 cents TO house and lot In single
night Seven o'clock p. III. finds tens of thousands OF
yOgng at their homes hotel. or boarding houses.
You say: Go 10 prayermeetng. Well, suppose lac goes
10 rayermeeting two secular nights In the week, 1t
do -four nights in the week Go to lecture astron-
omy! The young mans brain is tired out running over
long lines OF figures or In trying 10 sell goods 10 people
who don't want to ,i buy, ana he he has no
nything about other worlds, he has all he
take care Of in this world. Now what young people
want IA amusement that will help the body and mind
something that will allow them 10 10 In "a sound sleep
at ii p. and awaken refreshed at a. III. or earlier.
In the year 1919, "A Frenchman invented The roller
skate and he kept his invention tied until 1888 when
the patent out Now there factories All over the
land producing roller and there thousand
OF these Kinks good bad. You AK III favor roller
skating exercise Irepy, yes with restrictions and de
cidedly without restrictions In other words you
make the best thing and thing OF this
ercise Kinks have broken up families have called in
the surgeons. There Is much difference between
Kinks as between heaven and hell Skating rAk
exercise. with proper precautions. is most
healthful aud graceful. II eclpScs coastlng,
crOauet bat and ball and lawn tents 1t has all the adj
yantages of the gymnasium with more spirit 20 H. With
proper protection would DE well for young To
take one hour this hcathful exercise II would be
well OF America to Initiate the brisk walk
which keeps English women rosy ana strong with one
hour tho secular evenings TO turn away from darn
ing and housekeeping and try that eXhiarating
else IL would bring out OF tue hollow checks IL
would be we'll for the young at the hotel iu New
York and Brooklyn II lie would 80 To respectable rink
interfering with independent OF every one else
and then go back To the hotel again. But rollerskatng
Kinks the destruction OF body mind ard soul of
d good many. And would suggest the following restric
tons In the Of the Kinks Let us have no Nugary Let
young woman attend these rims unless accom-
pied by a chaperOne IN the form of mother, father
brother other guardian II In rink man without
proper Introduction attempts to accompany or fiirt with
young let the officers OF the rink take that
TO the door and help him down the front steps with
every means OF acceeratng force AT hand Filtration Is
9annation. when business men are returning from
new York daughters Of respectable parents with
CONSPICUOUS behavior and gggng intended TO attract
the attention OF the male and horror goes through
my soul From the vast majority OF tins comes the
shipwreck OF hfe."