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Show MAN 70 YEARS YOUNG SKATES Gay Old Boy Just Whirls Around to Get an Appetite Gets It, Too. Tacoma. Clerks and others arriving ar-riving late at their offices have recently re-cently been giving an excuse that they have been watching an old man skate. As they reach a certain street they hear the whirr of rollers on the as- ! phalt paving. Rounding a corner, i they see a little old man, with long I chin whiskers, sunken eyesockets, but ! very bright eyes, speeding along at , a reckles rate. His ball-bearing roll- ers he manipulates with the dexterity j of a fourteen-year-old veteran. 1 A reporter approached the septua- genarian skater and was received with suspicion. I "Don't get it into your head that i I'm doing this to revive ice-skating," i he said. "This is a very healthy way of spending spare time. I get out here ; in the early morning and whirl around ' and have the finest appetite for breakfast break-fast you ever saw. And I'm nearly seventy. "I used to skate a lot in Holland. The doctor says it's a great thing for me, and I know it is, so that's all there is to it." |