St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-13

VILE AMUSEMENT
that came out of the thicket to put its paw
and tooth upon the young, but | must al
ways discriminate.
To me, rightly y-precautione roller skating
is the most beautiful and healthful exercise
l ever witnessed. 1t eclipses in gracefulness
and healthy movement all the croquet and
coasting and lawn tennis and football and
gliding over frozen pond, and all
the other hilarities of house and playground.
1t is good for the lungs, good for the limbs,
good for the circulation, good for the spirits.
see in it possibilities for the best exercise
ever invented. 1t has all the advantages OF
the gymnasium with more exhilaration OF the
spirits. 1t has all the exuberance Of the
skating pond on which our fathers and moth
ers used to dart out, tippeted and furred
with none of the dangers of breaking through
tne ice. It has all the vivacity of outdoor
games without being dependent on condi-
ton of the weather. 1t would be grand
thing if all our young men could for one
hour almost every evening take round at
this merriment. The women of America
who decline the
STOUT, BRISK WALK
called the constitutional which keeps English
women roseate and strong, would do well If
almost every day or night they would leave
darning and mending and bread-making
and parlor-dusting and table-setting and
for one hour and join the whirl
of the skating rink. Some Of these hollow
checks would fill up, and some of these lack
luster eyes would get back their lost
sight, and stopped shoulders would be-
come erect, and incipient consumptives
and merciless ncuralgias and nervous pros
trations would take everlasting departure.
1t would be well if the stranger in our hotels
after spending the day in purchasing goods
for his western house would in the evening
go to some respectable rink and hire pair
of skates, and, independent of everybody
and interfering with no one, take an hour
of flight in the charmed circle and under the
inspiration of the orchestra and then go back
to his hotel and say his prayers and go to
dream of home.
But while these are the possibilities OF
health and recuperation in this exercise on
wheels many have used it, to the damaging
of body, mind and soul and hence speak OF
the restrictions. First, let US have no more
of this
vULGARITY AND IMaIoDEsTY
seen every night in our city of young women
alone and unattended, skating in rinks and
forming indiscriminate acquain tanceships.
Let such young persons be chaperoned by
father or mother, brother or elder sister.
When a man, however well dressed, on the
floor without proper Introduction tips his hat
to lady, let the officers of the rink, always
On guard, invite him to make rapid strides
toward the door and help him down the front
steps with any 1such means of increasing
his momentum as may be suggested. Let
those well-dressed devils who sometimes
haunt such places get quick justice and our
skating Kinks will be as free of them as a
Friday night prayer-meeting. Let all those
who wish properly to employ this entertain
ment not allow the blaze of lights and the
Of dreams and cornet-a-piston
tempt them to senseless and ruinous pro-
ongation of the amusement.
Accept no unwarrantable gallantries
know that the same law that dominates the
parlor should dominate the skating Kinks !;
know that the evil reprehend is not con-
ined to the skating rinks. There are parents
IN all our cities who need to look more care
fully after their children.
In other words
FILTRATION Is DAMNATION.
When 1 see at the evening hour on Broad
way, New York, or Fulton street, Brooklyn,
As gentlemen return from business, group
Of young women with conspicuous manner
and giggle that is intended to attract atten-
ion of the masculine passers-by, horror
strikes through my soul and l say, Il wonder
# the parents of those young people are
aware of this The most of those who make
everlasting shipwreck carry that same kind
If sail. The pirates of death attack that
style Of craft. wish l had a voice loud
enough to be heard from the Penobscot to
he Rio Grande and would..repeat, filtration
IS damnation.
/ remark further, that craze on anything
IS deplorable. Ball playing, from which
many of us got the strength and the exuber-
lnce with which we have fought the battle,
las with many become dementia, and the
gamblers have put their clutches upon the
sport, and at the close of the game many
nave gone home despoiled of purse and
DEsPoILED OF MORALS.
But that is not anything against ball playing
Boating, from which many of US who lived
llong rivers got development of chest, that
hirty years, and would have given stout
ungs to many who, ten years ago, disap-
peared through pulmonary complaint, has
,een misused by college students who have
acrifced book for oar and brain for muscle,
victorious at the boat race and dead failures
or the duties of life. But that is nothing
against boating Strip the roller skate of
he craze and substitute common sense. A
thought is that public craze on
me style OF amusement is transitory, and
7ou can't depend on the continuance Of a
:ity's insanity. One-half OF those who are
low building skating rinks will 20 into
bankruptcy.
Time has ended and we are brought up to
Judgment to give account Of what we have
'een doing. And the judgment angel says:
You lived for years in world where there
we're millions of people in poverty, in sick
less, in sin, in wretchedness of all sorts, and
here were hundreds of men and women who
,ut forth every exertion to help them, some
If those philauthropists and Christians toiling
hem selves
INTO THE GRAVE,
ii for others. Those women out yonder. -
ays the angel of judgment, ''consecrated
heir needle to God and sewed garments for
he destitute. Those heroes consecrated their
words TO patriotism and fought for their
ountry. Those were the friends of orphan
sylums and took the motherless to the
osom of divine charity. Those were the
ngels of Northern and Southern battleields.
hose were eyes to the blind and ears to the
eaf and bread to the hungry and heaven to
he lost" ''They werer' cry thousands of
be rescued. ''They werei'' reply all the
ansomed earth. ''They werel" says the
,hrist whom for many years they served
Then the angel of judgment will turn
oward those who gave their life to pleasure
nd says: "What did you do2" swell, I
njoyed myself" says one. SWELL" says
mother, 81 was very
FOND or THE DRAMA
nd 1spent my leisure time in looking at It. {"
'Wel,'' says another. 81 could beat anyone
q our city in playing lawn tennis. ''Wen,"