The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-10-13
PLAYING BADMINT0N.
A TWO HOURS FRoLlc FOR NEW
Works. SOCIETY YOUNG FOLKS.

Arrival of the biggest swell of the Dan
dies = After an Elaborate Course of
Thought--sixty Thousand Year and
the Results Thereof
People who imagine that the young men
and women of New York society are stiff
aud formal in their manners would have
been somewhat surprised at the crowd of
young people who met together one
afternoon to play badmlnton in queer
little Fourth avenue building.
1t didn't take a very shrewd observer
to discover that badminton, as played in
New York, consists of conversation to n
very large extent, interspersed with few
cursory bits of hit and misplay with the
racquets There were no chaperones at
all at this game, and 1t amounted to
merry sort Of frolic for two hours in the
middle of the day. II was amusing to
listen to the talk, for the English accent,
which is affected, so laboriously by some
of the society people, was picked up and
dropped precisely as fancy dictated by the
gorgeously attired people, who made bad
minton an excuse for meeting without
being oppressed by the presence of chaper
one duennas.
A DEEP AND LOGICAL CONCLUSION.
The biggest swell of the handles arrived
an hour before time. He was small man
with prominent teeth, rather pallid face,
and pair of shadowy side whiskers. He
pranced up to the door of the fiimsy frame
structure and nodded carelessly to stolid
Englishman who stood by the door with
straw in his mouth and his hands in his
pockets.
"Good mawnin', Fowbes,n said the new
conner, screwing single glass into one of
his weak eyes, and glazing hard at the at
tendant: "is any one heahp"
'Not yet, SIR said the attendant, re-
spectfully.
@Aw," muttered the young man, o4m-
placently; Al am the first one then" Hav-
ing arrived at this deep and logical con-
clusion, after an elaborate course Of
thought, he cast ghostly and transparent
smile at Forbes and drifted through the
doorway into the barn-like structure.
Here he cast critical view at net which
extended across the floor, went to one
of a series of small lockers and took
therefrom a racquet. Then he assembled
the small stairway to gallery where
there were few dressing-rooms, and pres
emily emerged In all the glory of white
flannel knickerbockers and shirt, with long
red stockings, blue and white silk Nor
folk jacket, and a blue worsted Tom
O'Shanter cap perched artfully upon his
rather Notwithstanding head! Around one
of his slim wrists there was a broad leather
band clasped with four buckles--a scheme
by which champion badminton and tennis
players strengthen wrists that have been
strained by everyday The single glass
now hung over his breast He danced
about for moment to timber up his legs,
and then, stepping out into the inclosure
across which the net was placed, he
slipped off his silk jacket produced little
cube, into which was inserted a rim of
feathers, and tossed it in the air. Whenit
came diving forward, with bullet-like
directness, he caught it deity ON the end
OF his racquet and sent it into the air
again.
A ROWLING SWELL OF HIGH ORDER
Tho solitary young badminton player
who was romping so joyously was a howl
ing swell of very high order. He didn't
look like man OF great Importance, but
socially his position is enviable A man
who at the age of IS spends $50, 900 year
without earning the reputation of being
spendthrift or fool, must necessarily
amount TO something in the world of
society. He seemed as happy as a clam at
high tide, batting away there skillfully
when a brougham drove up to the door
and young woman and her maid hustled
in he gave yell of greeting that was quite
undignifed, and reminded one strongly of
a street Arab.
Late again, Miss Agatha he chirped
happily. "'Pon me soul it is quite heart
rending for man of my conscientious and
trustful nature to receive these disap-
pointments every play-day."
"Indeed you are a paragon said the
girl, smiling brightly. and tossing her
wraps to the maid. at was the fault of
mamma this morning. She was desper-
ately blue when she got out Of bed, and so
she climbed back again. Then she in
sisted upon my reading to her until she
felt more composed, and there you are"
She had scarcely finished speaking when
there WAS great chatter and hustle about,
and half dozen people hurried in. Two
of the girls were in full tennis rig and
when one of the men slipped off his long
ulster he revealed the fact that he too
had put on his play-day togs before start
ing from home.-Clara Belle in Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
Hot Water and Beefsteak Diet.
After diet of six weeks upon hot water