The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-03-26
Skating Rinklets.


Lima has a tooth-picked-toed skating rink
dude, says the Times.
Ida Shields and Hattie Lewis, executed an
arm breaking duet, at the Columbus, Ind,
rink; no encore was asked.
A hog race came off at one Of the Greenville
Kinks last week. The Adrocate says it was ga
most disgusting and disgraceful exhibition
Henry Payne, of Camden, says it wasn't
roller skating that laid him up with the rheu-
matism. We accept the apology.
Bellaire, o., is about to experience the first
roller skating rink sensation. John Stride
and Miss Kate Fowler will figure in it. Stride
is a married man.
Millersburg lady skaters are jealous of each
other and fight when uncomplimentary re-
marks are made about their skating abilities,
and the bangs fly.
The whole town of Creston has been con-
verted. The roller rink has been run out.
Rev. Wager has been conducting the meet
ings. It's a God-send for Creston.-Press.
Girls who attend the rink should recollect
that their health is more important than the
amusement. You can live without one. but
you will die early without the other.
A New York special to Sundays Enquirer
says six of the contestants in the recent six
days match are lying at the point of death. One
or two have since died.
Lima girls refuse to go to school any more
and spend every moment of their time at the
roller rink. They threaten to elope if ordered
back to their lessons.-Cleceland Press.
Joseph Cohen died in Brooklyn on the 10th
inst, and according to the certificate of DR.. G.
W. Gushing, by cerebral inflammation, cold and
excitement due to roller skating at Madison
Square Garden.
j. Albert Gregory, one of the assistants in
the Peekskill, N. Y. Rink, while doing some
fancy skating on the l4th inst, had a para
lytie stroke in his right side and after much
suffering died in two days.
Roller skates have found a champion. He
is a homeopathic physician, and he says that
be has cured a woman of nervous disease by
having her practice on roller skates a few
hours daily for three months. So says the
Easton Free Press.
Another young lady suicided last week be-
cause her father would not permit her to at
tend a roller skating rink. Some people are
bound to die and if they can't kill themselves
at the rink they will do so at home. In such
cases it makes very little difference where it
is done.
Rev. J. v. Saunders, of New York, a few
Sundays ago talked to his congregation of the
spiritual perils of roller skating, and wound up
by saying, "if you want exercise, go out in the
fresh air and get it, and, mark me well, When
l tell you that much sin and no good m
from the roller skating rinks."
A brute of a father by the name of A. C.
Taber, was arrested in Lima and lined $40 and
cost, for hiring two of his children eight and
five years, to give exhibitions at the skating
rink of that city. The full extent of the law,
5000 fine and six months Imprisonment, should
have been melted out to the unnatural parent.
The Lima Times says one young man,, who
may be seen upon the streets at any time,
when he isn't at the rink, was formerly plump
and fair to look upon. Now he looks like a
bad case of measles, with living skeleton at
tachment. He is getting thinner every day,
and, if he keeps on skating, it is only a ques-
ton of time when he will fade away until there
is nothing left of him but a pimple and a pair
of skates.
DIR. Densett, of New York city, says: 81"
consider that the practice, p~hysiologically, is
apernicious one. Its effect upon boys is bad
enough, but upon girls it is much worse. 1t
destroy muscular balance, strains unduly the
parts exercised, locates weakness at vital
points, and prepares the ways for a great
amount of suffering and wretchedness. If the
craze should continue for any considerable
length of time, the facts which l have named
will be verified in the experience of many a
young lady" The people throughoutthe coun-
try are just awakening to the fact they have
been encouraging and fostering one of the
most dangerous, but seemingly innocent past
times. One by one the newspapers through
out the country not Influenced by a few dollars
of patronage, are falling into line and fighting
to free our towns and cities from what a con-
temporary terms these slaughter houses of
morality"