The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05
OUR BOWLING CLUB.
We Have Hired an Alley for the Sea-
son and Hope to Live Through 1t.
(C0pyrtght, 1881

son and Hope to Live through 1t.
(C0putght, 1881
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-My wife and re
Gently joined a bowling club. The first
meeting was held on Thursday, and its
memory clings to me still. / am SO lame that
l can't eat custard pie without assistance.
However, | think very we'll of the game,
for it has made my wife so much lamer than
| am that | have now considerable advan-
taGe in those little differences of opinion
which have hitherto made marriage prac-
tically a failure for me. / understand that
the other members of the clUb are in much
the same condition, bat we Rave taken the
alley for the winter, and have fixed the
contract 50 that our heirs, administrators
and assigns can finish up the series in case
anything happens to us before the season is
over.
The man who owns the alley may survive
us individually, but he will not get any the
best of our estates.
lily wife aud | are recent arrivals in this
part of Brooklyn, so when the idea OF form
ing the club occurred to her she saw the
necessity Of getting some help in Its organi-
zation She therefore went to a lady Of her
acquaintance, and it was agreed that each
SHOULD invite couple, which in turn sh uid
invite another and so on, until the mem
told my wife that this was gong it rather
blind, and | am not surprised 70 find that
among he members are several who have
not spoken to each other since the Brow lrg
club broke up in a row last spring. 1t takes
some familiarity with a neiShborhood to
enable one to grasp these little differences
of literary opinion.
AS our couple we invited John Holmes
and his wife, who live next door. Barring
some slight difficulty about a mutual, co E
operative clothes line in the rear Of orr
premises, they have never dogeus any harm,
and our invitation was purely diSlnterested.
Holmes and | were detained in the city on
Thursday evening, SO we telegraphed our
wives and they decided 10 go together. We
were to join the party later. The alley we
have engaged Is ia the basement OF a build
ing on a corner, and there Is a saloon over
it. That is the case with great many cor
ners III Brooklyn.
There is q nice private entrance TO the
allev al the side, but my wife ana Mrs.
Holmes aid not know it, and they attempted
to get III through the saloon. The gentle
manly aud efficient bartenders thought
the women were members OF the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
come to sing a little hymn in the interest of
the prohibition ticket, and they therefore
laid down behind the bar and plugged
empty beer mugs over their ears for fear OF
being converted. The remainder of the
audience also quickly dispersed
There was a Sign at one side Indicating
the loca ton of the stairs leading to the
alleys, and the ladies found their way down.
In the basement there is partition which
divides two alleys on the left from an equal
number on the right. We had engaged
those upon the right, and it was therefore
only natural that my wife and Mrs Holmes
should enter the compartment on the left.
Women have such queer ways of remember
ing things.