St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-27
What They Are Doing to
Amuse Themselves---The
Delights Of Skating.
The End of the Merry, Merry
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The Meeting of the Society for
Physical Improvement and
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Getting in It's Deadly Work
on Numerous Victims.

'Let's go skating"
''Where?"
ooh, at Central park. Lake Of the
lsles-any place where there's good
surface and lot of people,
The above conversation has become
as familiar as campaign cry. Every
body skates. 1t is the only outdoor
amusement possible to Minneapolis
people during the present season. Cen.
trail park is the favorite place, although
there are score of other small places
which receive fair share of patronage.
The park is not more than ten minutes
ride from the center of the city, So at
any hour of the day many may be seen
gliding over the lakes smooth surface.
In the early morn. before the nights
frosts have melted, come the univer-
sity student and the soulful young
maid. They don't care for pleasure,
not at all. but only for ''constitu-
tional." as they call it. The ice is
rough, and has not been swept yet. 1t
is strange, but true, that intellectual
people are always awkward. In skat-
ing they fail to demonstrate the power
of mind over matter. The university
youth finds that a geometric figure is
easier to demonstrate on a blackboard
than skating rink.
The sublime and soulful maidens tim
idly cluster in groups, discussing the
"Impenetrability of Atomic Particles"
and wishing those awful young men
would stay away. One can't be sure
just how it happens, but within a half
an hour those groups have dissolved.
m lot
ing in couples. The girl who would
blush and be Mortified at the bare
thought of filtration in the abstract
seems to be amusing herself in just that
way and without a thought of its
naughtiness.
Pretty soon the children come for just
one turn around the lake before the
tardy bell. Occasionally a farm wagon
stops to let John and Mary steal few
minutes recreation. The skates are
taken from under the sacks in the bot
tom of the wagon, and their owners
proceed to surprise the Staid and pre-
else deniZens of the city with their Wig
orouS and untamed grace of movement.
In the evening, when the electric
lights take the place and the same pur-
pose as the more poetic moonlight. Cen
trail park is the place of all places where
may be met all the nice, pleasant people
one knows. If little party of young
ladies conclude to go out to the park
some fine evening, just for exercise, you
know, it's so strange that party of
their most intimate gentlemen friends
come for the same purpose that even
ing too. Everybody enjoys such i'm
promptu affairs. Then there is such
a pleasurable excitement in learning
toglide about, performing all sorts of
intricate figures. Some people get tired
of educating their heels, and occasionally
describe a parabola on their ear or eye
brow. This variation never fails to
interest the spectators, but still they
seldom envy the person who can per-
form such feats.
A young lady who thinks it necessary
to take private dancing lessons for sew
erai months before her debut will put
OH skates for the first time without car
ing in the least that she provides much
amusement for other people. 1t seems
to amuse her also.