| Show I SHALL TEE RINK GO 1 1 Another Important Social Question to be Solved Now that Cleveland has been inaugurated inaugur-ated and other national matters of more I or less interest disposed of the Omaha Republican announces that it is time that a social question of great importance to the west should be considered and i possible settled This question is Shall the rollerskating rink go After mature deliberation critical examination ex-amination and several tumbles of more or less velocity the Republican arrives at the conclusion that there are some reasons rea-sons why the rink should go and some I why it should stay Our principal reason I why it should go is perhaps more or less I personal and is based upon the very natural feelings of one who has been badly treatedwho has been buffeted as it were this way and that who has seen and felt the hard floor rise up against him who has been thrown by skates and other circumstances in the full front of the grand march of the other artists and who therefore is inspired by vengeance to proclaim the necessity of the abolishment abolish-ment of the rink On the other hand our main reason why the rink should stay I springs from a vindictive desire that it shall live to inflict upon other men humiliations II iations and blackandblue spots similar to our own I will be seen that while this logic is neither as deep as n barn door nor as broad as a deer it possesses certain elements of strength and leads to from a conclusion that will not be receded We are inclined to think that the rink will stay whether it ought to or not Asa As-a matter of entertainment to the spectator specta-tor it is a success no matter whether the skaters are good or bad I good they are very graceful if bad very funny For the skaters themselves the exercise must be very beneficial under any eircum stances I they are proficient they feel the exhilaration and the grace which they exhibit while if they are not proficient pro-ficient they receive a lesson iu what may I be called the differentiation of attitude I and gain a knowledge of the possibilities of contortion in tho physical frame which must be a liberal education Skating is much more beautiful and certainly more healthful than dancing and i the moral line must be drawn is I doubtless better Engaged in by the I people who dance and governed by the rules whioh obtain in the fashionable ballroom it would become in every respect a higher method of amusement I The skating itself intrinsically is as harmless as i is pleasant It f Avould be much more desirable to do away with the dance than with the rink if something must go Even the inane creatures who are the masculine belles of the bal would look as though they were capable of something Intelligent i they were on skates so that from a purely intellectual standpoint the exchange of the bal I room for the skating hal would be beneficial bene-ficial i For many years the churches contended con-tended against dancing but were finally I forced to give up the fight They are I beginning now to attack the rink Would I it not hp n hotter Wlin t01 tlinrr In ln fendskiltingwhulsinsistimmgtiat i i t the amusement should be wisely politely I and morally regulated morly regulted I II |
