The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-19
GIRLS SKATE.
Noted Bellies Who Are
Highly Accomplished
elders.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND WEATHER.
What is Going On in the Social
World-AnnOuncements Are
About All There is.

Especially %,oritten for the Jersey ctr Neics)
The small boy VINO would lie weather
wise. and. to that enc peers into his grand
sire's yellow-backed almanac. Will see
stretching along oae side OF this months
page, re-cold-aoout-th
time" And IL the thermometer agrees
with the almanac, or what Is more To the
purpose, if he feels that peculiar frosty
flavor in tue air that tells OF smooth,
thickice somewhere within running dis
lance, he suatches his skates from their
hiding place and hies him to Ciermont.
The week that is past has been enough
to try any skaters professions of Chris
tianity. Sunday morning broke clear and
cold, Sunday Schools were uucommoniy
thin and the ice most g%loriously thick.
Monday:-Narm, slush, despair. Tues
day:-Cold, skating perfect. Wed
nesday:--Pluperfect, everybody out.
solving the ice in fioods-of tears, TO be
poetical.
Jersey City girls not only like skating.
but do skate whenever the indispensable
ice is provided. Sedate maideus of three
seasons do not indulge to a great extent,
Dub luSLc hlC uOChS VI UuQS anu lOuuRtI
sisters. II you should so TO StermoEt the
next fine day. you would probably see
Miss Alice johnson and Miss Jennie
Scott. both stars of the amateur stage
and prominent bers of the Apollo
Dramatic Society. As for appearance,
Miss job nson is just rs graceful and Miss
Scott's big brown eyes sparkle as bril-
liantly as behind the footlignts, but
they certainly move more quickly than
stage usage allows. Miss Anna Leay-
craft also comes from the Heights,
and spins over the ice with much
skill. From lower Jersey City prop.
er come Miss Jennie Fisk of Grand
street. Miss Alice jennings and Miss May
Brady of Jersey avenue, who is as sue
cessful on skates as is in everything else
she undertakes. Miss Florence Taylor,
salutatorian of the last High School COM
mencement, spends all her spare time on
The ice. and halls the advent of cold
weather.
WHO AK TIL PRIZEf
If a vote could nave been taken to de-
termiue the most graceful skater on Jer-
sey City ice lasG week, the name of Miss
Belle Newkirk, would have stood high
up on the list. Miss Newkirk has not yet
been introduced to society, in fact, has
but just reached the dignity of long
skaters. She make u pretty picture
with Fer brown curls tucked under a
jaunty cap, aud cheeks whose faint pink
flush the cold has deepened into bright.
rose.
Miss Elsie White is another noteworthy
skater, who spends much time at her
favorite exercies. Miss Ida Rink OF
Forest street is another devotee to the
sport, as is Miss Edith Wallace. The
Misses Louise and Grace de Hart of Paul
mier place, count as lost every moment of
a cold day not spent on the ice, n even
their elder sisters the Misses Florence
and Clara, find time in the midst of their
medical studies to snatch an hour or so
at Clermont. From Lafayette come
Miss Ethel Norris, a tall. graceful blonde.
with q ~profusiOn OF gold crown hair, Miss
Minnie Blauvelt and Miss Jessie Grower.
AMATEUR OPERA ON sTEELs.
Miss Nellie Cros5map helps to repre-
sent the Amateur operate Association
on Clerinont ice. II medals were offered
for proficiency in SKATING, she would
have yet another trophy to add to those
she won at her recent commencement.
Other and younger skaters are the
daughters OF Judge Dixon, of Jersey ave-
nue., when at home from school, and
Miss Ethel Potts, daughter OF Assembly
man j. H. Potts. of Magnolia avenue.
There is an unknown" at Ciermont,
a young lady who skates like Il dieam-it
dreams do skate, and looks like,-but
here smiles fail. She wears a brown
Ir0ck, trimmed Win Iur, q reeref with
heavy fur collar, and a turban with a
wing, perchet coquettishly on the top OF
a mass of brown curls. The chief feature
of her skating is the lightning rapidity
with which she gets over the ice. 1t
brings back visions OF ones Homer, and
light-footed Thetis. and Mercury with
winged sandals, just TO see this this nine
teenth century maiden skate. There
must have been many people on the ice
who knew the name of the fair skater,
but fate must have been against my ind-
ing out for / met none of them. So. will
the young lady who faithfully answers
the above glowing description kindly
forward her name. that the fair I'M
known" may be unknown no longer?
Please doD all speak at once.
WHERE GENIUS TELLS.
1t takes genius TO fall on the ice and do
it gracefully. Some day there will arise
In the land an author who shall DO this
subject justice; until then / will let it
alone. But next TO seeing a person skate
the unfortunate who has just lost his
equilibrium. At ClerImont last Wedues-
day the ice was SO crowded that there
was scarcely room TO fall down fiat. but
there were a few who succeeded in that
feat. And although they fondly thought
no one noticed, there on the bank was
Mr.. Harry Lauterbough, of Pacific ave-
nue., with u Kodak, aud myself on che
bank with q note book, for as the Stot-
fish bard once sang:-
"a chiefs amang We takin' notes, an
faith, he'll prent 'emf'