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Show Going to Waste "The sports of other days don't appeal ap-peal to the youths of today," declared an elderly resident. "Horse chestnuts are ripe and popping out of their prickly prick-ly shells, but I haven't seen a single boy whirling strings with two of these uuts tied to the ends. That used to be my finest fall frolic. We'd whirl the strings and then let go, and the device would wind aroi.nd telephone or light wires. All the kids enjoyed the sport. And to such a degree that the coppers on the beats used to chase us merrily when we became over-zealous in cluttering clut-tering up the wires. Hut the boys of today don't know this pleasure. And It seems a shame for all the fine horse chestnuts to go to waste." Detroit News. |