Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-06-11
ROMANCE OF A PAIR OF SKATES.
How a Fancy Skater Broke an Arm and
Won a Bride.
New York Times.


with those skates, said the manager OF
an up town roller skating rink yester-
day, exhibiting neat little pair of sill
ver-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 q prettily furnished
fiat in Fourteenth street. You can see
them on the floor here about every 9th
er evening in the week, and more
graceful pair of skaters never did credit
to the art
The fortunate young fellow so pleas
antly concerned came here from down
! East somewhere just before the holidays
and began an engagement as a fancy
skater. He was good-looking, dressed
we'll, had 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 circuit of
! the rink with him. AS for him, he APP
, peared to think but little of the atten-
ton paid him in tact, believe he was
bored by it, but he was always gallant
and polite when he was trapped into a
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 reckless crowd of
skaters without so much as touching
them, and have known him to save
| foil xuhn or al
feet away from him. He once told me
of a certain light 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 a regular
patron who had the prevalent craze
for roller skating fully developed
Her father is an employee 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 compsnion. After that they
wouldn't speak to one another, and L
| 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 Wal my skater, and
still he seemed to think no more of Ell
ther of them than of other fair admirers,
which was practically nothing at all.
"The incident, or, rather the acct.
dent, which was destined to bring about
the present happy condition of affairs
occurred at one CT our Saturday ma
tinees. AS l 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 L speak she was NOV.
ing rapidly down the floor with
her course, and attention directed
towards 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 frail girl to be upset
I by two great lubbers as they were, is a
more serious matter than you may i'm
| agine Our heroine saw her danger
| just 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 over
| the satisfaction her fall would be to
| 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 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. 1 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, Icould do moth
ing with him but send him to his board
.ng house, gloomy, cramped up lit
tie place among strangers. My family
wasn't here then, and L 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.
lily. 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
filed 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
ly satisfactory. They were married be-
lore he had his arm out of a sling.
(which proves" concluded the rink
manager, sagely, "alPs we'll that ends