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Show When Roller 8katet Came. VJ Holler skating, which so many boys M and girls enjoy, Is of loiiipiinillvely H recent origin. It l said iliat wheel- B ed skates wera known as far luck mi as tlio eighteenth centuiy, but tho BJ Ifour wheeled skuto. us we know It to- BJ ,day, was tbo Invention of a New York- BJ 'er. who Introduced It In IStf'l Kupld BJ 'improvement wus modn In wheels und BJ bearings The lollers were first mado H of turned boxwood, but these wero BJ lorn so quickly that substitutes of a H hnrdcr composition were Invented. BJ Hard rubber or paper wheels served BJ for soturnl years, but finally gavo way JBJ to lion and steel, whlrh, with bull H bearings, havo mude tho nuiusenieiit BJ ery popular with tho younger genera- |