COIF UNKNOWN IN LONDON
There Was a Time AVhen This Con
dition Prevailed, According to
British Publication.
Golfers, even of the present gen
eration. can look back to the time
when the royal and ancient game
was unknown in London except to
the devoted few who wandered in
red coats over the commons of
Blackheath and Wimbledon—a
wonder to the average man and
• V terror to nurses and babies, as
serts the London Standard. To
day London is surrounded by a
network of golf links. You can
not leave tin* metropolis by any
line of railway without seeing as
soon as you reach the green fringe
of the suburbs the little red flags
in the center of new mown plots
of grass which indicate the pres
ence of the golfer. There are up
ward of 16,000 names on the lists
of golf clubs in and about London,
w here in 1800 the man who played
golf was generally regarded as
either a harmless lunatic or as one
who was long past his prime.
' ne reason tor the sudden de
velopment undoubtedly lies in the
fact that, whether or not golf is to
be regarded as a serious form of
athletics (there are still thosejvho
labor under the mistaken idea
that neither muscle nor staying
power is necessary for the game),
it is most emphati' 'y the only
game yet invented iiieh can be
played by all sorts and conditions
of men. from the first childhood to
the second, and it is, above all,
adapted to life in a great city,
where a man needs good exercise
yet cannot take it in too violent a
form. Tennis does not meet the
rase at all. It can be played in
the city itself, and does not of ne
cessity take one into the open
country. It is too violent for men
whocan only get one day’s practice
in the week. It is a game where
the players of different classes
cannot be brought together with
any satisfaction. Lastly, it is far
more monotonous than golf. One
court is very much like another,
whereas at golf not only does one
bole differ from another, but every
separate course has its special
features and problems. A golfer
living in London could have his
day’s golf every week if he cared so
to arrange it, and never play twice
in the year upon the same course.
It is this infinite variety which is
the soul of golf, and accounts for
the fact that whereas men take up
cricket, and polo, and tennis, and
alter ward drop them for one rea
son or another, not one man in a
hundred who ever takes up golf
will ever give it up so loug as ho
can walk round the links.
CO PICNICKING IN WINTER.
Explanation of How This May Be
Done with the Aid of an Accom
modating Innkeeper.
The word picnic calls to mind
pine groves and babbling brooks
with the thermometer dodging
around 80 degrees in the shade;
that one may l>e comfortable and
contented on a winter picnic is
not generally known, says the Out
ing Magazine. You drive into the
country five or ten or twenty miles
to an old inn—an old inn where
they are always expecting such
parties, if you can find it. Then
you make arrangements for a din
ner at live o’clock and sally forth.
You strap on the snow shoes, pick
up the coffee pail, the tin cups and
packages, and “hike” for the
woods.
The fun begins at the first fence;
snow drifts onto a stone wall, but
it blows through barbed wire, and
a fence of this type is a highly en
tertaining proposition for snow
shoes. Some of the partKlie down
and wriggle through, 'ion think
you can climb it; you get to the top
and sit on a post and there you
are! The tails of your shoes hang
straight down; if you jump you
break them. You are not even
sure that you ran fall and do it
gracefully. Assistance is always
at hand, however.
Numerous camping places begin
to present themselves. In tgrn
each one of the party, after a fall,
promptly decides that this is the
spot, setting forth the claim thu*
they have already begun to clear
away the snow. You place them
properly on their feet again. They
dig the snow out of their eyes and
begin to see differently; so you go
farther into the woods. After
awhile you find a sheltered spot
and it is unanimously voted that
you eat right there and then.
You slip off the snow shoes, and,
using them as snow shovels,
scrape away the snow down to the
ground. In the center of the
cleared space—eight or ten feet
in diameter it should be—you
build your tire and melt some snow
for the coffee. The snow to the
windward side of the little clear
ing is carefully packed and lined
with lir boughs. Now you sit
around and eat things; no one
waits for the coffee to boil—not
much! When the last crumbs are
eaten and the coffee pail emptied
you smoke and have a talky-talk.
VESSELS WITH BAD NAMES
Some in the British Navy That Seem
Destined to Meet with
Disaster.
If ono should be so bold as to
characterize the superstitious
sailor as silly he would at once de
clare that there is sufficient reason
for his belief, and would proceed
to prove that war vessels named
after stinging and venomous
things have been unlucky, and that
the country should not be so indif
ferent to the men who follow “a
life on the ocean wave” as to or
ganize a mosquito fleet, says the
Navy League Journal.
That Snake is regarded as an un
fort unate name for a vessel is
shown by the fact that two of that
name have been lost, one in 1781
ad the other in 1847; but no vessel
bearing that name is known to ex
ist now. Serpent, which is only a
substitute name for Snake, is an
nnlucky one also, for the one
wrecked in 1892 was the fourth
British war vessel of that name to
meet the same fate. Viper has
been an unlucky name in the Brit
ish navy. The first one was wrecked
in 1780, but the admiralty would
not swerve, and so kept the name
on the list, each vessel meeting its
doom, and the fourth was lost only
recently. The French navy has also
been unlucky with vessels so nam
ed. The Viper, used in the British
service after she became a prize
from the French, was lost in 1793.
The second was lost a year later,
the third in 1797, and the fourth
was recently lost in a collision oil
Guernsey.
The Cobra, another lint isn war
vessel, was lost recently at the
same time as the Viper. Among
other vessels similarly named and
which met fates other than in bat
tle are the Rattlesnake, in 1781;
the Alligator, in 1782; the Croco
dile, in 1784; the Adder, in 1846;
three Lizards, two Dragons and
one Basilisk. All of these were of
the British navy. The list could
be made larger by citing the rec
ords of other navies.
The Norsemen, who were so fond
of naming their vessels against the
laws of superstition and using hid
eous heads of dragons and reptiles
on their high prows, were less un
fortunate, and these did not meet
with frequent disasters. They did
have a belief, however, that it was
unlucky and a sacrilege to select
‘such a name as did Lord Dunraven
for his first yacht to challenge for
the America’s cup, the Valkyrie.
And this belief was strengthened
when she was sunk by the Satan
ita. The second challenger, with
the same name, gave trouble, and
she was broken up after only a
short existence.
Perverse Opinion.
“What is your idea of a re
former?'’
-A reformer,” answered the
wicked politician, ‘‘is merely a
man who insists on overlooking
financial opportunities.” — Wash
ington Star.
In a semi-arid climate deep-rootlm?
grasses are better than surface-feeding
grasses.
HOW TO LIGHT THE PIPE.
Subject of Vastly More Importance
Than Appears—Two Matches
Necessary.
There has been a little newspa
per discussion recently on the sub
ject of “How to Light a Pipe,” as
serts Sketch. This may seem, to
the feminine mind, a trivial mat
ter, and uire beneath the notice
of any dignified journal.
How wrong! For a pipe ill-lit is
a pipe ill-smoked, and a pipe ill
smoked is a man made testy, and a
man made testy is a man looking
!out for trouble, and a man look
ing out for trouble is a man finding
trouble, and a man finding trouble
is a woman in tears, and a worn
an in tears is the last word in hu
man dreariness. Never let us be
ashamed to inquire, then, how a
pipe may be lit with the utmost
| satisfaction to tin* smoker.
One pa per, I see, recommends
spills. That is good, but tin* spills,
of course, must lie wooden ones.
Another paper retorts that
spills are of no sort of use to the
man in the train. This is the kind
of frightfully true thing that
causes a hush in Hie noisiest as
sembly. What, then, should the
man in the train do?
I will fell him. He should carry
a box of wooden matches, and he
should use exactly two matches to
light his pijie. The first one will
dry the tobacco on the surface,
and the second one will produce
the vivid, even glow beloved of
smokers.
The man. by the way, who lights
his pipe with a wax match is a
bad man right from tin* start.
Never trust him, dear friend.
TWO ENDS OF A MELON.
One Was All Right, But the Other
Held Intoxicants Which
Made Trouble.
Gustam is truly a connoisseur,
and the culinary feats he can per
form upon a two-burner gas stove
in his apartments is a wonder to his
friends, relates the Chicago Inter
Ocean. lie has bee'u put on the
lookout for delectable delicacies
potent to cool and refresh. The
luxury that tickled his palate most
was a watermelon that had been
doctored with rum and claret and
cooled to the freezing point.
Inspired by this work of art,
Gustam forthwith planned a sur
prise for a few of his friends, lie
procured a huge watermelon, the
necessary rum and wine, and, in
accordance with the recipe, st irred
up a mixture, plugged the melon,
poured in the liquid, inserted the
plug, and set the whole in the re
frigerator to cool for two days.
Then, summoning his friends, he
cut the melon.
Before taking a bite himself,
Gustam proudly awaited the laud
atory remarks and exclamations
of praise. His friends ate in si
lence. Upon tasting his slice Gus
tam could detect but the faintest
flavor of rum and wine. What had
become of the two quarts of liquor
he had put in?
An hour or so later the janitor’s
wife knocked at the door, and as
she faced Gustam and his guests
she began with a great show of
righteous wrath: “Misther Clius
(hie) turn, wot did yet put (hie) in
thot inalon? Ma ould mon (hie),
me ould man—me ould mon (hie),
ish down there yellin’ wid (hie)
tk’ jimjarns! Oi wanta know
whash yez put (hie) in thot—in
thot malon! Ish ut a joke (hie)_a
joke thot yez put up (hie) on um?
Oi wanta know (hie)—”
The truth dawned upon Gus
tam. By reason of the melon lying
two days in one position the rum
and wine had all settled in the
lower end and he had given that
end to the janitor.
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“What were you thinking of?”
“Of you.” — Cincinnati En
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