Show The Terrible Rink On of the blazing questions which the ublic is imperatively called upon to de jide is how to choke the demoralization If the skating rink epjdemic That this lew species of sport has become an epi ernie and that it is expending its ray Jges to every hamlet and village in the foantry is evident Old men buckle one on-e skates with the hopes of renewing iheinouth old ladies do the same thing at t they may come to look the age tich they have always claimed for I selves instead of the age which is I I ned by the registry of births Young 1 a i and maidens glide over the floor so aeeiull that the wrong persons some I m es get introduced to each other while f mall boys and girls are so gleeful and eckless that many an occiput gets asap a-sap not recognized by phrenology Skating considered as an ordinary pas line is innocuoUs Nothing is more de fhtmlly rhythmic than tho hum t the skates in unison with e fife and trombone The combi i ion of sounds is stimulant and exhila tIng Even the beginner who puts one on-e skates for the first time with a cern cer-n feeling that he can do the hter roll at once gets a large amount of lavsical exercise in a surprisingly short ie He is on his feet one minute and enext he is on the back of his head lis legs hare a dangerous disagreement ieach other and one of them deter psto take possession of one side ofjthe li while the other with equal determ pa takes possession of the other Yes skating is good exercise and titiin class of physicians and sur h2 e5 for reasons not to be detailed arc l itbe opinion that it is beneficialto liieaselves The skating rink is however doomed line Catholic Church has uttered its fiat Isainstit and the Protestant clergy have Indulged in the severest denunciation Even the Legislature regards it as an evil and vecheerfully admit that when the gentlemen in Albany come to the conclusion con-clusion that a given Eport is morally wong the matter ought to be attended to at once Any exhibition of conscience on the part of such noble Romans must be regarded as a startling spectacle and would be encouraged even though it in t olve the extinction of the rink I I |