The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05


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The left side had been engaged by
party of Germans, and two of them hld
already arrived. They spoke no English
capable of comprehension, and the ladies
spoke no German. The conversation which
ensued was voluminous but hardly salts
factory.
Meanwhile our party was assembling on
the other side OF the partition. Holmes and
/ arrived.
There appears to be political meeting
or a riot of some kind in progress on tie
other siie,n said one of the members
1 listened. My wife has al idea that in
order to make foreigner understand it is
only necessary to speak loud enough. She
has the same deusion in regard to me
when we differ about something. There
fore, when l saw knot drop YEARLY out
of one of the boards of the partition, and
lie down on the floor to recuperate, knew
at once what the trouble was on the ether
side.
went around to explain m1ttex. NY
knowledge of German consists principally
of few sentences which | learned from
profane Teuton, in order to be able to ex-
press my feelings properly to our icemau,
who is of that natio atty. 1t will be
readily understood that they we're not of
that complimentary and conciliatory char
scter likely to help matters on an occasion
like the present However, / did the best |
could with them, but the impression was
not altogether favorable. The larger of the
Germans backed me up against the spout
that holds the balls and talked to me in a way
which led me to believe that his command
of language was even greater than that of
the man from whom l had learned my few
choice little bits. 10 cut the discussion short.
/ casually dropped pony ball on the gen
tlemans toe, and in the confusion which
en- .ued we escaped.
My wife had never seen bowling alley
before, and she professed a considerable con-
tempt for its appearance.
''The idea of having all those pins stuck up
together, )" she exclaimed. ITS too easy.
THEY'LL all fall down together There are
too many OF them
She was, therefore, very disagreeably sur
prised to find that there were just as many
of them after she had rolled the ball down as
| before She rolled the other two balls with
the same result, and then declared that the
alley wasn't level. II is wonderful hog
quickly some women can pick up a game
| If my wife had been a professional she
couldn't have said more about the uneven
ness of that alley.
| am not an expert myself, but sue
coed in knocking three pins off one corner
with the first ball. Then / knocked three
| imaginary pins Off the same place with the
other two balls, but the remaining seven
| SlODd up iihV bipS'
When my wife's turn came again she re-
peated her previous performance. rolling
two balls in one of the CUTTERS" and one
| in the other Then she iutimated that the
boy hadn't set them up right. He sarcasti-
| caly offered to set them in the gutter the
next time if the lady thought she preferred
! them that way. Afterwards my wife had
an eye out for that boy, and she drove the
small balls down at him frantically Which
she thought he wasn't looking. He evaied
; them, however, by standing behind the
pins
/ was endeavoring, meanwhile to make
en- impression upon the ladies OF our club by
the graceful ID artistic manner of my
bowling. l thought this would be easier
than knocking down so many pins, as some
OF the other fellows did. II was always my
belief that a msu with legs as long as niue
would be very graceful II no ever learned
how TO manage them. admit that my at
tempts on this first evening were not wholly
succe ,sful The alley was slippery, aud my
! feet slid around in fashion not wholly