Show I Constant contemplates A I production ot of Quo ad Is In Paris I glassy Ice and ami perchance a pheasant better Jetter material Mn can cana a fellow ask alt for the enjoyment of II a pleasant time T many ways the mod modern ern of the steel runners has hns the over the skater ot of A hund hundred 1 years YeAts ago alo In that he II Iti far better bolter quipped In the matter or At skates anti that ho he is 11 not dependent on Jul for I loo Ur By e ri of at n a proper Ute use or of he tp skate In Jul July almost all an well all as In January The real I zest ot of the sport for tor your our true skater however lies In ht gliding I over mer the Ice In the open with crisp crisi air to till hi lungs tun a aas and a wintry landscape as a bAckground for the tho expanse of at frozen water It t is 18 nn an annual custom for many ardent devotees or of the sport to take Extended tours on au s skates ates duro dur lag Ing January and The late Inte William n It Curtis sons on one or of these places may be In this way and lon long distances traversed that would be not n nearly Arly so pleasant In sum summer mar mer Many Inny such parties have been planned for the present season on the Ice i Speed skating lies has many followers I and our clacks are to none In Inthe inthe the world Them are always n a good number of entries for the annual speed championships II held In various parts of cof the country This year ear the will hold most of the big hiI lents events on their sId add or of the border bonier The reason of at this is IA that In recent years the races have bAve several times been spoiled or post postPoned owing to leek lack of lee ice while condl dons Hana can an marl nearly always be depended upon to be In this Dominion While skating will always hold Its own a as the greatest of at all outdoor win winter ter sports the present POPular rAge for athletic lots hAR brought to the many Indoor games rame suited to tills of at Ute the year rear Drill halls halla armories and other large buildings IU tae utilized 1 for these events enta There III hardly any an well known outdoor pastime has not b been n mollified modified for use In a covered building besides li which there are many nl flew pu purely h Indoor games Indoor bue Jail ball hock hockey on the lee Ice basket ball roll roller Ir er polo court tennis rackets squash handball and many other might Its hf mentioned without the list lilt All those named have regular rule ruJI the pia play and In several leveral of them there theM are arf organized annual eerie Hockey Horkey l I yearly favor athletes to In tb the col 01 legee There I ls an league which Is now playing Its Ita an annual annual nual winter Inter series for the champion championship ship Cornell hu has recently entered II a atam team tam and aUll a very lot ot of rIm remes are taking place let Ice yachtsmen began their season on ear earlIer her lIer than usual this season and owners of fut fast Art are looking forward to a aery avery very ery winter The Tho l I Bever J lee Yacht club won on tM the pennant last year with the Icicle to Ir dr John A Roosevelt or of A number ot of new are being built In anticipation of the coming apart The devotees or of and art are all busy at their favorite pastimes The last Is a NorwegIan sport Th The skis lire are long runners of polished wood turn turned turned ed up at the end ends Just bark baek ot of the middle of 01 each la a strap Into which the toot feat Is III fastened The skis are used for t coasting down don hill and for traveling b 11 bover over level Th The speed that can be attained d I is wonderful J b by I t the aid add ot at skit execute flying 11 |