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jll\ IS IX OCR ALLEY.
, vfrN - HAVE invaded clubdom
a emed with TENPIN '.
Social Developments
Proffi!j‘ d From the Present Bowling
Cta’!?'' n Ancient and Honorable
Past:s e Again Wins Favor-Ger
-oani in the Alley.
(Copyright, 1831.
\- E -sv York. March '2B. Jast now we
seme of us shoot, some ride, some
' u t everybody who aspires to be “in
- it Kobert Rowley, “roll the round roll
nci " The thundoring whir of the big
talk as they spin down the long
, "g-j the sharp cracking of the scat-
are heard in the land. Groups
attired girls chatter about “strikes”
snares." ‘'steams" and “tournaraeats,”
gather in early morning a f
1 j-Yrs of the big new atheietlc clubs. If
U - any anatomical defect attributable
bc*i:ng, like the “tennis elbow,” the doc
lire goiDg to find it out very soon.
-3 ihne. some hundreds of thousands of
y irsers of both sexes attribute to it a
£jj,y culor and a hearty appetite.
I:ere are probably five men to-day who
- rno a score of 240 in a ten-frame game
"se ho could do it ten years ago. There
,7m women who can make a score of 180
200 to one who could do it even five years
, The bowling clubs have multiplied
[microbes in milk and their members
,as the sands of the sea.
Old New Yorkers come honestly enough
a taste for howling; it runs in the blood;
descends from a long line of ancestors
c bowled cn green English turf or on the
iter-p .ved towpaths of Dutch canals. It
oes from colonial ancestors who met of
jmer evenings at the Bowling Green
der the equestrian statue of King George,
rail that, it was the Germans who clung
bowiing through good repute and evil
ute, in fashion and out of fashion, aud
o can fairly be thanked for the present
irp revival of interest in it. This revival
i tribute to the German influence in the
nmunitv. There are some people who
re cherished a sneaking fondness for
sling even when it was unfashionable
io are now immensely relieved to find
sir skill appreciated. A gentleman well
own in the city told me the other eveu
;, while we were watching a party of
>n working away at the alleys, that he,
th a number of friends, had for years
ne oDce a week to a German beer saloon
I the east, side whose proprietor kept a
■wiing alley, and reserved it on a
fcular evening for their exclusive
E. At first there was no entrance
Bit except through the saloon, but the
Embers of the party persuaded the pro
■etor by a liberal advance upon the rental
■cut an outside door for their less con
■cuoui egress and ingress. There were
Brgymen and deacons among this group of
Befatig ,hle bowlers behind the beer
Bxm, but their wives did not and could
B take part. Now there is scarcely an
Bletic ciuo in the city whose alleys are not
Bn to women some portion of nearly
Bryday. The new “millionaires’club.”
Bid, Hus had such difficulty in securing an
Br ; riate name, will have the finest alleys
Btr .tv when its splendid new clubhouse
Br passing the Union League — is built.
Be wrest semi-political club in Brooklyn,
B Bushwick, has just adopted a
B:gu for its proposed club house,
Bu splendid bowling alleys in
B Basement. Nearly all the members of
B Bushwick club are Germans and men of
Be physical as well as financial solidity.
By will use the very biggest of the big
Bisand make ten strikes with astonishing
■quency. The clubhouse is to be situated
■ toe edge of the beer-making district, and
■ gocd proportion of the members
i> broad-teamed and well-bal
fted brewers. Bowling is, in
|Bii, essentially the fat man’s game.
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In ne irly every other form of exercise the
slender fellows have the advantage, but
weight as well as muscle is in the bowler an
®'‘ v j an , ta k e - It is agreed among exoerts
that big balls do more execution than the
smaller ones, and it takes weight to give
them the proper impetus. A feather weight
trying to bowl a tig ball reminds one of
the tail trying to wag the dog.
Tbe splendidly housed Union League
C lub of Brooklyn is onsof the organizations
of the sort w here women are permitted to
bowl evenings. 1 saw there a very spirited
game Wednesday evening between a
couple of splendidly vigorous youug ma
trons, dressed appropriately in loose silk
blouses and plain serge skirts and low-
I heeled and broad-soled shoes. One wore
her hat; the other didn’t; from wbiob one
would conclude that there is no rule except
convenience. The woman who took her
hat'off won. One good thing about bowl
iug as an exercise for w- man is that it is
absolutely impossible to do anything in the
alley in tight clothing. The swing of the
the ball, the stoop of the figure, the long
forward lunge of the delivery, are all in
consistent with corsets.
The new Hanover Club of Brooklyn is
another which illustrates well the prevalence
of the bowling craze. It is housed In what
was formerly a private residence, and in
remodeling this it was at first supposed that
there would be room for only two alleys.
Finally another was squeezed in, and the
house committee adopted a rule that ladies
introduced by members could bowl every
morning except holidays. Before the club
house had been opened a month the privi
lege was so appreciated that it became de
sirable to div,de the time. Now there are
Wednesday bowling parties and Thursday,
Friday and Saturday groups; everv day
except Sunday the alleys are in use by
wo iien.
Of course private speculators have not
overlooked the opportunity afforded by the
genesis of the new fad. Lota of men who
were running skating rinks a few vsars ago
are now managing bowling alleys in Har
lem, where neighborhood clubs of either sex
meet for a quiet game at stated intervals.
It is a great point in favor of the alley game
that it is more sociable than billiards and
goes best when more than two or three are
gathered together.
Considered merely as an exercise, bow
ling is of course opento serious objection that
it develops oue a m and one side of the body
at the expense of the other. Any bowler
can easily obviate this by learning to bowl
with the left hand as well as the right, but
Idonotkuowof a single one who lias se
riously set to work to deal fairly by both
sides of his body. It would interfere witn
sc res, a> and the record making instinct is as
keen in the jolly bowler as in the panting
hare-aud-hounds man. Probably it is better
that one side of the body should be devel
oped than that both should be neglected.
But it is the social aspect of bowling that
most compels interest. The club has long
been the citadel of masculine privilege.
Women have gazed on it from the outside
with wondering eyes, scolded about it,
longed to be in it, and wondered what was
going on within its to them mysterious re
treats. They have invaded the club through
the bowling alley, the restaurant aud
picture gallery. How long will it be before
they divide with the sterner sex the entire
establishment from bar to billiard parlor
and from hall to gymnasium? There are
some prophetic souls who are confidently
looking Tor ward to such an outcome from
the invasion of the hallowed precincts of
clubdom by throngs of prettily dressed girls
in whom the young men feel perforce an
interest, and grave matrons who eagerly
embrace a privilege denied them in their
youth.
Will the typical club of the future recog
nize any distinction of sex between its mem
bers? Already we have such organizations
of progressive folks as the Twilight and
Nineteenth Century Clubs which have
abolished the distinction, but they are not
yet typical. The bowling craze squints In
the same direction. Traditions as woli as
teupins are going down, scattered in every
direction, before the thundering onslaught
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.
of the rolling balls and the reverberating
rear of the alleys qn “lames’ day,” makes
the ghosts of old-fashioned club men turn
uneasily in their graves.
John L. Heaton.
HOW TJ E AT A ’PC SSUM.
A Dialect Story as Told by Congress
man Coleman of Louisiana.
Prom the Washington Star.
Only those who have enjoyed an acquain
tance outside of business relations with the
modest representative from the second
Louisiana district know that Hon. Hamil
ton Dudley Coleman is one of the best story
tellers ever a member of congress. In a
distant southern town the writer has heard
him talk, read and sing to applauding
groups of delighted listeners. Tnere are
people in Washington, too. who have
enjoyed his happy gift* in a way
tey will long remember. No
member of the Fifty-first congress who
does not come baok here re-elected will be
more missed by the social circles that knew
him than Mr. Coleman. He is particularly
happy in reading and telling stories which
are illustrative of the dialect as well as the
humor of the genuine far-south plantation
negro, excelling quite as much in the man
ner of interpretation of his genius as does
the famous Joel Chandler Harris in bis in
comparable folk lore tales of Unde Remus
to “the little boy.”
A year or two ago it was at a club, after
a promising meeting of one of the American
shipping conventions, that a score or more
of gentlemen were enjoying a lively run of
such stories as “set the table on a roar.”
Mr. Coleman was called upon by a com
panion and told what is given below, being
twice encored, so inimitaoly did he tell it.
It is the story of an old plantation negro.
HOW TO EAT A ’POSSUM.
“If yuh wants to know what’s good, des
lis’en: Yuh look at de’possum and smack
yer lips, fer he a big. fine feller. Den yuh
take ’em an’ go rite bac home, an’ jes’ fo’
yuh git to de do’ yuh take yo axe-helve an’
put ’em across de neck an’ brake de neck by
pullin’ of de tail Den yuh take ’im in de
house an’ de ole ’oman done lef a great big
fireplace heap full hick’i y ashes; yuh takes
de shubble an’ opens er big hole In dem pile
er ashes an’draps dat ’possum m dar; an’
when yuh takes ’im outer dar de ha’r dress
pull off dess as easy, an’ yuh put ’im in some
hot water an’ scrapes ’im wider case
knife an’ he cums des as clean. Den yuh
takes out dor lntrals, hang ’ira up an’ wash
’im good; den yuh salts ’im down an’ puts
away twel Monday mawmn’. Monday
mawniu’ cum, de ole ’oman take 'im out an’
par biles ’im good; den she gits ’bout
peck o’ taters, an’ den slices dem talers an’
piles ’em al ober ’im. an’ den she bakes ’im
twel de greese run all fru dem taters. Den
she takes ’im out an’ puts ’im in de big dish
an’ sets ’im on de dinner table wid de taters
piled up all ober 'im. Yuh cum ter dinner
from der flel’ an’ yuh walks in an’ sets down
to de table, but yuh doan eat dat ’possum
den. EH! Eh! Ehl Eh!
“No, sah; doan eat dat ’possum den.
Arter dinner yuh takes ’im an’ de taters an’
sets ’im up in der cubburd. Bimeby yuh
cums home Turn de day’s wuk; fer yuh
cums home fer yer supper. Yure tnity wore
out; fer yuh ben wukin’ in de fiel’ hard all
day. Yuh sets down outside de cabin do'
an’ takes yer pins an’smokes. ’Fore long
Ephrem say; ‘Daddy, daddy, thupper’s
ready.’ But yuh dss setv dar; yer
doan go in at'all. Yer wait twel de ole
’oman au’ de chillun go off ter bed—she
null! Den yuh knooks de ashes out yer
pipe—an’ goes in. Yuh moves de little
squar tabl • front de fire an’ put yer char
close up dar by it. Den yuh goes ter de
cubburd an’ gits de ’possum an’ de taters.
Yuh putt ’im on de table. Yhu tel de ole
’oman for to go out an’ lock de do’. Den
dar yuh is 1 Yuh an’ de 'possum all by ysr
selves—togedder. Yuh frowi der ole hat
on de flo’, takes yer seat in dat char an’ gibs
np yer soul to Gord!”
BACTERIA IN CHEAP SuOAR
Thousands of Insects in Every Found
of Cert iln Grades.
FVons the Philadelphia In.rulrer.
The common, plain, ordinary, every-day,
innocent-looking brown sugar, which
stands harmlessly about every corner
grocery store in town, bas loomed up
through scientific investigation as a moie
deadly agent in the human siomach than
Wagner’s Mchuylkill water, if such a thing
we-e possible.
Thousands of disgusting little insects
creep over one another in almost every
pound of the low grade sugars. Samples
taken at random from stares by a curb us
analyst of this city have shown" that some
qualities contain as many as 359,001) ot
repulsive looking little creatures. They are
plainly visible under a microscope, and in
some cases under an ordinary magnifying
glass, and even to to* naked eye. In the
human stomach they are said to be capable
of doing great damage.
Prof. Cameron, public analyist of Dub
lin, and Robert Nioool of Greenock, Scot
bave made some investigations, the results
of which are now attracting attention here,
where similar discoveries have been made
by local scientist*. The insect is known
among scientific men as the acarus sacchari,
and as many as 268,000 have been found in
a single pound of sugar. “The acarus
sacchari,” says Prof. Cameron in
his account' of the ’ insect, “is
a formidably organized, exceedingly
lively and decidedly ugly little animal.
From its oval-shaped body stretches forth a
proboscis terminating in a kind of scissors,
with which it seizes upon its food. Its or
gans of locomotion consist of eight legs,
each jointed and furnished at its extremity
with a hook. Jn sugar its movements from
one place to another are necessarily very
•low, hut when plaoed on a perfectly clean
and dry surface it moves along with great
rapidity.
“The disease termed psora or scabies by
medical meii, but more popularly known
by the more expressive designation of the
•itch,’ is, I venture to hope, only known by
name,” adds Professor Cameron, as he de
scribes how the groedy little insects bur
row under the skiu when they get separated
from sugar and find their way on the hu
man .form. This is the explanation he gives
for the prevalence of what is known as
grocers’ "itch,” an irritating disease which
attacks the bands and wrists of people who
handle common sugars.
DANGEBOUS TO HEALTH.
“In ten grains weight,” says Prof. Came
ron, “I estimated no fewer than 500, most
of which were so large as to be distinctly
visible to the naked eye. It is inconceiva
ble that thousands of these creatures csn be
introduced into the stomach of a hutnau
being without serious endaugerment to
health. Many persons believe that coarse
brown sugar sweetens better, or to use
a common phrase, ‘goes farther,’ than white
sugar, but this is a mistake. A tosspoonful
of damp brown sugar will certainly sweeten
a larger quantity of fluid than a spoonful of
white sugar, but it does so because it is
much heavier than the other; but if equal
weights be used it will be found that the
white variety is by far the better sweet
ener.”
Sugar refiners estimate that in the par
tially refined sugars that are imported into
this country for refining there is in addition
to the acari or mites about 3 and some
times 4 per cent of dirt, a large portion of
which are beetles and other kinds of bugs.
These bugs are more familiarly known to
sugar refiners than to the general public.
And so “ignorance is bliss.”
Princess Elizabeth or Hesse, the queen's
grnuddaughter, has joined the Oreo* church,
though it was eipecially agreed when she mar
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not give up the faith in which she had been
reared. Notwithstanding her assurance that
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