Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-03-24
Great Bowling.

ROch S. RObb OF the Treasury De.
partmcnt has just returned from
short sojourn at Atlantic City. and
brought with him "reminiscences OF an
experience on a bowling alley which
approaches the marvellous, says the
Washington Post. Strolling intoa
bowling alley, he stood idly looking
ON at a game in progress. Soon q fine
looking woman. who had just made
her appearance. approached him with
IL challenge to roll a game.
"It's the only exercise take" she
explained, ssand you surely will obligc
me"
lie couldn't refuse, of course, but
informed her o: his being a score of
years out of practice. But this did
not cut any figure. and the game be-
gan. Mr.. Robb's fair antagonist
bowlefl i'm great form, while he was
not far behind. The strikes and
spares were so common with the two
that soon everyone became interested,
and whisper went around that they
were both professionals and were Civ
ing a free exhibition.
The lady rolled up total of six
consecutive strikes, and this made
MI. Robb little anxious.
sYou will excuse me taking off my
coat he said. "Why, certainly"
she swcetly replied, and off came the
coat.
Strike followed strike until eight
went down to his credit. "It seemed
as if couldn't help knocking them
all dcwn, and no matter how l would
start the ball down came all the pins.
There never was such rolling before
if the keeper of the alley is to be be-
lievcd, and when 1 finally won by Il
short margin there was burst of APP
plause. Dr. Daily was present, and
when the keeper of the alley saw that
the doctor knew me, he asked him
who VIC were"
"Why, that's so-and-so and his
wife. They are two Of the best bow
lers in the United States" was the
doctors answer Then the owner
came up to me, and in the hearing of
the lady invited me and my wife to
make use OF the alleyat any time, free
of charge. The lady enjoyed the joke,
and for the sake of appearances 1 es-
corted her until we were out of sigh,.
did not see her again"
Wcctl-Maps.
The Germans have some cduca.
tional ideas which We in this cuun-
try have borrowed with profit, and
there are still others which we might
be wise to adopt. Among them, no
doubt, are the wall maps OF different
species Of pestiferous weeds, which
hang in schoolrooms where the chill
drcn can sec them as long as they go
to school.
A practical idea undcrlics the dis.
playing of these maps 1t is we'll
shown that farmers arc prone to
treat all weeds alike and hardly to
observe any difference between them:
whereas the natures of weeds differ
as much as the natures of any other
plants do, and the s.rt of treatment
which will eNtcrminate one will
sometimes increase and multiply an.
ulller.
1t is important, therefore, that the
farmer and gardener should UNDER
stand the weeds which they are try.
ing to eXterminate.
1t is here that these German wall
maps come IN. They show colored
picturesof the most pestifcrous weeds,
in all stages of growth. and also the
ways in which they scatter their seeds
and propagate themselves by learn
ing them thoroughly, through seeing
them day by day on the walls, the
child grows up with a knowledge of
the best way to exterminatc them.
At has been proposed that our agri.
cultural societies offer prizes for the
best labelled collections of weeds
not for the purpose of encouraging
their cultivation, but in order to ex-
tend knowledge of them, aud thus
contribute to their determination.
Called Ilown.
IA month or so auoN a.id tho