River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-23
ROMANCE OF A PAIR Oh SKATES.
Tow Fancy Skater Broke an Arm and
| Won o Bride.

| New York Times.
There is pretty romance connected
with those skates, said the manager of
an up town roller skating rink yester-
day, exhibiting a neat little pair of sill
ger-mounted rollers. They were the
means of bringing together the most
charming young couple that ever rolled
around this rink. They're married
now-the young people, not the skates
and are living in a prettily furnished
dat In Fourteenth street. You can see
them on the floor here about every 9th
" evening in the week, and more
graceful pair of skaters never did credit
4 10 the art.
The fortunate young fellow so pleas
| unity concerned came here from down
East somewhere just before the holidays
and began an engagement as o fancy
skater. He was good-looking, dressed
well, had a pleasing address, and was in
/ his element on rollers. The ladies said
what real nice young man he was and
were never tired of making a circuit of
] the rink with him. AS for him, he APP
peared to think but little of the atten-
i lion paid him; IN fact, / believe he was
/ bored by it, but he was always gallant
and polite when he was trapped into
| double, no matter who caught him. He
was as quick as a cat on skates and no one
could run him if they tried. He would
glide through q reckless crowd of
skaters without so much as touching
/ them. and have known him to save
ladies from fall who stumbled fifty
/ feet away from him. He once told me
of certain Ight-headed maiden who
pretended she was going to fall when
ever she came near him, only to bring
/ him TO her assistance.
"The pretty girl who rolled into
fortune on these skates was regular
patron who had the prevalent craze
for roller skating fully developed.
Her father is an employe in the Post
| Office. She used to come here with
another girl about the same age.
Both of them lavished their admira-
| tion upon my fancy skater, and be-
fore they knew it, were little jealous
of another Their GOODNESS was shortly
changed into open enmity when the
| younger-the one who wore these
skates-laughed at header taken by
her companion. After that they
wouldn't speak to one another, and |
don't think [ ever saw any one enjoy
/ the discontinue of another so much as
the older of those girls did when her RI
val's petticoat slipped an inch or two
| below her dress and threatened even
worse. 1t was amusing to see the
/ charming manner in which those girls
exercised their skill to gain the greater
degree of favor with my skater. and
still he seemed to think no more of ell
Their of them than of other fair mirers,
which was practically NOTHING at all.
"The incident, or, rather the accl-
dent, which was destined to bring about
the present happy condition of affairs
occurred at one Of our Saturday ma
tinees. AS 1 SAID before, our heroine
was an excellent skater, dashing and
graceful, and always attracted the at
tention of spectators. On the after
noon of which / speak she was NOV
ing rapidly down the floor with
her course, and attention directed
/ towards a friend who had just
entered. Coming toward her on dag
onal and rapidly converging courses
were couple of big awkward fellows,
each exerting himself to be first to the
dressing room. They apparently did
not see her nor she them, and it soon
became evident that there was to be a
collision, and for a frail girl to be upset
/ by two great lubbers as they were, is
more serious matter than you may inn
agine. Our heroine saw her danger
/ lust too late to save herself, and the
same instant caught a glimpse of her
\ rivals face, as she told me afterward,
which wore an expression of excited an
ticipation and delight. She said that
the terrors of the prospective accident
were lost entirely in her dismay ovel
/ the satisfaction her fall would be tc
| her rival.
"At the critical moment my fancy
man took in the situation. He was
near them at the time, and quicker
| than wink he was at the scene OF
/ danger. Another moment and he cut
in at full speed between the girl and
the two men, coming in contact with
them with so much force that all three
crashed to the floor in q heap. The
girl escaped the collision altogether,
but when my fancy skater got up he
was pale as death. The fellow
had broken his arm. | never
saw anyone who appeared to feel SO
badly as that girl did when she saw
how seriously he was hurt. She
actually burst out crying. / never sup
posed she was really in love with the
fellow till then. Well, could do moth
ing with him but send him to his board
ing house-a gloomy, cramped up lit
tie place among strangers. My family
wasn't here then, and | had no place OF
my own to take him to.
"But as he had met with hard luck
in rescuing the girl her family natur-
ally took grateful sort of an interest
in him, and the mother, good,
whole souled little woman, had him
removed to her home. You may be
sure he received the best of attention
from at least one member of the fam
ily. The arm was some time IN COM
ing around, but long before the patient
was well enough to be up he was as dead
in love as she was. The mother was
filled with conformation when she found
how matters stood. She protested, but
it was of no use. The lovers were sure
they never could be happy apart, and a
weeks total separation went far towards
proving the assertion. Accordingly in
quiry was made relative to the young
mans antecedents, which proved high
" satisfactory They were married be-
fore he had his arm out of sling.
(Which proves" concluded the rink
manager, sagely, "all's well that ends
we'll"
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