The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-06-17
SOME THINGS FOR
WHICH PINGP0NG
is RESPONSIBLE.
"X/oU play the game" SAYS learn.


patient, 'till the brain centers
that supply the nerve stimulus to your
wrist are exhausted, then the muscles
of yodr wrist and forearm become very
sore and stiff. That is what physicians
name the pingpong arm"
III that were the only consequence OF
the latest fashionable game, folk would
be let down easy; but IL Is not. Thir-
teen new fashions, by the count, take
their rise from this weird, soul absorb
ing play. The thirteenth is the ping
pong slipper. In order to make her
foot look cunning and seductive the
pingpong young lady incases II In a,
supper built on the steep inclinedl
plane style, her toe upon the carpet.
her heel invisible even beneath the
shortened skirt. Her heel is thus put
away out OF sight by reason OF having
under II heel created by the shoe.
maker. This heel is three inches higi,
and narrow in proportion. The evident
intention of the pingpong slipper,
bringing all the woman's weight upon
the front quarter of her foot and splay-
ing IL out around. is to make the foot
the shape of the pingpong racket, thus
developing the pingpong foot too. The
result thus far. however, is discourage
ing, the only bones and muscles re-
spending properly to the treatment
being those of the familiar bunion Joint.
which is already bulging beautifully.
We may hope. though, that in time the
toes. too, will assume the proper fan
shape.
AS yet not many persons have gone
absolutely crazy over the current fad.
though an actress has brought suit to
have the great game which is played in
room over her head stopped lest she
do go insane. But she herself is not a
player and therefore is only negatively
affected in her mind by the game. So
far as heard from the minds of players
themselves are not numerously disturb
ed. This is probably because among
the devotees of the noble game a ma
jority are of the large and highly re-
spectacle class of community that have
no minds TO speak Of They are safe.
But there is pingpong ear. 1t is
slightly long usually. It's popularity Is
that everything ii catches takes for Il
bells on Sunday ring out no more ding
dong. but pingpong. The rhythmic
beat of the wheels of train i'm motion,
the puffs of the engine, utter only ping
pong. pingpong, The drumbeat of the
schoolboys' military company casts
upon the air waves of pingpong. The
girl who tortures her neighbors all day
by running scales on the piano pounds
out only pingpong, pingpong. to the
victim with the game ear.
There is pingpong racket that does
not always appear in the game. 1t
comes after the game is over. and II Is
homemade. The husband makes 1t
when his pingpong wife returns after
midnight from a little game that abb
sorbed her till she forgot her own Lone
ly hubby. Sometimes IL is a wife that
| manufactures the racket when her hus-
band stays out late. This resulting
racket is even more exciting than the
original racket game itself. Yet a third
homemade pingpong racket lis beheld
when the crusty old baldheaded fa-
theirs daughters new pingpong cos
tune comes home with the bill attach
| ed 1t is of white cloth and lace. with a
willowy green sash embroidered with
regulation rackets. The crusty parent
glances at the bill and roars:
What's this? What's this fool
thing? I'll not pay such bills as these.
What do you mean by pingpong, any
how?"
! Here, papa, dear" soothingly says
| Mariana. She leads him to the ping
pong table.
"Fudgel" he exclaims. "Lemme see
what is driving the senses out CT all
your shallow heads"
Mariana hands him the racket and
ball. HIM, h'm Puff balls, feather
heads Come here, Mariana. Where
| you goin'? Take the racket and play
me opposite. Pingpong, pingpong."
From that day the game claims an
| other victim. the crusty parent. all the
more victim because the older people
grow the firmer the seizure that grips
them. The crusty parent is enmeshed.
In few days he wears the pingpong
smile. IL is fixed drawing back and
upward of the lips toward the ears.
| showing the teeth or lack of them. as
| the case may be- 1t is worse than the
| golf countenance and more distressing
| than even the bicycle grin.