The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-04-19
Consolation.

81 NMH
When Molly came home from the party to
night
The party WAS out at nine.
There were traces of tears in her bright blue
eyes
That looked mournfully up to mine,
For some one had said, she whispered to me,
With her face on my shoulder bid,
Some one had said There were sobs in her
voice)
That they didn't like something she did.
80 I took my little girl up on my knee
am old and exceedingly wise
And l said, "My dear, now listen to ne;
Just listen, and dry your eyes.
''This world is a difficult world, indeed,
And people are hard to suit,
And the man who plays on the violin
Is a bore to the man with the flute.
sAnd l myself have often thought,
How very much better It would be
tt every one OF the folks that / know
Would only agree with me.
'But since they will not, the very best way
To make This world look bright
Is, never to Miod what people eay
But do vi AT you thlak is right"
Walter Learned, In st. Nicholas.
---a
WnabinstoI's Physical Training
Mira. Burton Harrison contributes a
very interesting article in the st. Nicho-
las for March, entitled, "Washington as
an Athlete and of which the following
anecdotes and information are ATTRACTED:
A tale still current in Washington's old
home nei2hborhood in Virginia recounts
how once as a stripping he sat reading
under the shade of an OAK tr near his
school. Some of his friends had engaged
q champion wrestler of the county to
test their strength in an impromptu ring.
One after anotherfell a victim to the cham,
pion's skill, till, grown bold at last, he
strobe back and forth like one of the
giants of old time romance. daring the
only boy who had not wrestled with him
either to put his book down and come
into the ring or W himself afraid.
This was more than the self. contained
Washington could stand. Quietly clos.
ing his book, he accepted the challenge.
Long after, when the student under the
oak tree had become the conqueror with
whose honored name the whole civilized
world rcsounded, the ex-champion told
what followed. after a fierce, shor,
struggle" he said, 81 felt myself
grabbed and hurled upon the ground,
with ajar that shook the marrow of my
bones"
With the memory of these boyish en-
counters in mind, and with all his sym
pathy for athletic exercises, think wha'
it must have been to Washington, wher
c~ommander-in Chief of the revolutionary
army. to come upon q party of his younl
officers amusing themselves at a game o
%"fives," and, in spite of his evident en-
joyncDt of the sport, TO find them TOT
much overcome with WI to go on play
ing. 1t was in VAN that the general en-
couraged them to resume their sport; so
at last, feeling that greatness has il
drawbacks, he bowed, wished his officer
good day, ind walked away.
As a horseman, from beginning to enc
J of his vigorous life, Washington had n,
peer. Like all Virginlan boys, he tool
to the saddle as a duck takes TO water
Once astridc his steed it was all but i'm
possible to dislodge him. From the da,
when as q lad he first rode to hound
after old Lord Fairfax, of Greenwa,
Court, across the county named for tina
worthy Dobleman, he was n skilled an,
dashing fox hunter. In the army, whcl
| on horseback, riding down the line
. chcered to the echo by the soldiers, VIII
| believed, with a superstition worthy o
the a%ncients, that here was a being Dor
} to lead them, he was physically the mos
imposing figure present. In person
. Washington showed in his maturity tn
fruits of theslifetime he had givento VIA
t athletes nowadays call training,
His habits, at all times, were those ez
acted of a Grew" or team of moder
days, btfore the occasions when thos
heroes appear in public, to fill with dis
pair or exultation the bosoms of thei
friends. From the Indians Of the Sher
sndoah wilderness, among whom Ii
spent weeks during his first surveyin
tour, he learned the swift, elastic trea
that distinguished him in walking. hi
powers Of endurance were worthy of hi
r extraordinary physical strength, thong
it must be eaid he had few illnesses t
test his constitution, and, Indeed, wa
rarely ailing. 1t may be some consola
2 ton to aspirant heroes Of the future t
f hear, while upon this topic, that Mrs
Washington said it was well the genera
was rarely ill, as she could never get hin
to take his medicinel
t Major Laurence Lewis once asked hi
uncle what was his height in the prim
of life" says Gusts. HE replied, 4
my best days, Laurence, I stood six fee
r and two inches in ordinary shoes 0
his weight we are an evidence, havin
heard him say to Crawford, governor O
Canada n 1899. My weight, in my bes
days, sir, never exceeded from 210 (
800 His form was unique. Unlik
most athletic frames. which expand a
the shoulders and gather in at the hips
the form of Washington deviated frot
the general rule, since it descended fror
the shoulders to the hips in perpendicu
lar lines, the breadth Of the trunk bein
nearly IS great at the one end as at tn
other. His limbs were long, large an
sinewy; he was what is called straigh,
legged. His joints, feet and hands wer
large, AMI could a cast have been mad
from his right hand $50 far did its d
, mansions exceed NATURES modeD,
would have been preserved in museum
for ages as the anatomical wonder of til
eighteenth century"
London Street Sweeper.
; London Times: A new machine fo
sweeping the streets and automaticall
e)evating the s~weepings into a cart j
front of it, while travelling, was exhibite
in operation yesterday on several cit
streets. 1t consists Of a series of bor
zontal brushes fixed on q pair Of endles