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AMERICA IS BEHIND EUROPE IN FIGURE SKATING
THE SUN, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1912.
Art
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Originated Here, Yet This Country
Produced a World s Am
ateur Champion at the Sport
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li.i- in-. t li.nl a world'
,i i hampinii figure skater,
ii.' uriiaUii!! pari of tin1
- ! 1. 1 1 ll was nil tiicrl
: i.iiii ". w lin taught I'.u-
vrit- their names mi
iiNmI ill,- H'at.' with which
lli.it wu irearly llfly year"
II . '
- ttli" wa a professional, wa"
. ,rwhere ill r.uropo a- tin llli
I .. ii ; of "l..ilir. 'I'li, iiitcro-t
I in ;lri.-i' "Uiitln; in Lumpo
i ilm.irc Tli.il iuttTf-t grew.
.: ,l II. nil,- in Tact marked III,'
Mil .a lin- "..-li'iiialic hi ml. uf
,ltl where
t It.i - line till' Swedes, l!ll"sialls,
.iii l i"tri,iU" have I .-(-ii the
i- i nt mil" llgure f Later. 1 hey
I i , ih" art to a definite lorm,
ii ill" .r'"iiil da t.i 'r.' i" the
I i 'tituii'iital ir in;, i national
In'- national I- perhaps tin- hotter
Lngli-h liav.. laid adopted
i- -iK-i il'.i . ill.- original hoiiiu
. -.i ii" i". "trance lo say, the
, -. ii ' iepivi'iil'il in tli,.
. .i, ,. - i..itmg ' liion of i:ino;,.
, to ' - l.iliil or it- 1 . 1 1- 1 1 , ih,'
u'l.u ; i" allowed lo cii h
m. i u ,iii" ati all outdoor
: , tli- 'I lii'V ilti' going
. .1 hi figure on tin- ice
., ' .iini at tlif t IK lit nioiiit'tit
i ami mailt- a row nihil-
gallery ol ititiTtiat ioii.il
pion t ".I i n 1 1 i i-.riainly wry small,
ail il i wry vigorous, I'irsi conic
Irving ilrokaw-, ntiiatcitr cliampioii of
Unerloa in Hi mi. who liail tlu distinction
llii" yi'.ir of liciir; i ; fji American
to lit' invilt'il lo talc pari in ill" world's
amateur championship, Ii !! in Man
oheter. I'nglnud Al ill" nil'-' Olympic
game in Stot'l.liolm f-U.i . in appeared
Tor tin- lli'"t tinit' on tii pro ;iainiiU'
America, iiufurt iiii.iti-1.-. Iiailn'l a ghost
of a rh. in,'" in ihl" liraiicli ol' athletics.
Hut a li.itnirnl or i'ii!hii-i.i"t-. 1,'ii by Mr.
I.rokaw, are eti'M 'ed in an oducution.il
campaign which, it i' l.tipctl. will result
in America liavin.; a wiiitiitu k.il
init tt'iimiit tin" UHi.Olmpicgaiiio
What It the mattt'r with fkuti:ig in
America? To bo honest, ii" : to nothing
i" known in thi" country about the sport
it" moilcrn form. Americans have
Irving DrokbsU' &,T7cL
IttiOTJ
PA I ft
AMCRICAIj CHAMPION
in (he liitLTimt inni.l 1 1 m Miniature
on i hi It', executed nt n tcrrillo speed,
arc not wanted 'Hie man or woman
who nt tin Marl of n figure strikes an'
artistic poo, holds it and skates the '
largest figure gel tin iiiti'rnaliotial i
prize Figure skating nowadays Is really
an art "ho thrilling American acrobat,
on skates has no plai o in it 'i ho aimless
flinging nlioiit of aims anil leg It penal-1
izi-il. ou tnu-t skate 111," a Cusslan
ilancir and not 111." u wild Indian. '
Like the average rjiglishmuu, thu
us'criigc American skutes chiefly for the
hmtiIk1. lie doesn't care u rap for the
spectutors "he Continental Muropean
skate for the gallery lie tries lo niiil.e
every feat appear dilllcult and delight
in ruining in hi" spectators feelings of '
astonishment ami admiration.
.. i liami'ion lliireHl;aler. come" k
.iti.l !' the champion of
to up to m K
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the m
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it mo-" r B
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in the T IHvX
mid VA X -.
the V K )
the or V B
bUllte ill too liRllre- PA 'vV
tooeiierKetically. 'l'licy make Hie tnu iti J " v r?&B V-1 w
o, lure- ,00 nine,, of a Mrenuou- ,. M (CS
...nr.. .i..iiin. i....ii.i n..tiii.!.. t.rJ &.' jiHF X'.Q a ' fck.-. I
I I ,, - , ..,.! a ..Helen- lor a eli ,m. "m!' !,'," 'tiKu're'"' couutUfirTeryVhmK fXOjdjDj Whllt JijSK !
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Irvlnu Brokaw and Odier Enthusiasts
J 1 1 ILLUV.VJ 111 C I JV1UVVI I l-l 11 I. w I 'l I I -,
the Pastime Up to Date
In the tntiller of co"lume, too, foreign ,
dialers are far ahead. Americans wear,
ordinary, everyday diess with t rotifers
that ereiift ami fold with every motion .
of the body, or cli-o they tal.e a golflMK
or ridlliK full Aliroail skaters wear '
hinh-llttiiiK coats ami clothe their lower
limli" in tights or elot; llttiiiK trousers'
with liinh hoots or lles"iatis as footKear,
'I liis costume shows up the lines of the
IlKure, empha"ies the rhythmical motion
ol the body and calls attention to every
nicety of tl.u swing and motion of the
unempl ye ';.
The varioii" styles of skating emanated
fioiu l'aris, Stockhohn, Meiiua, lliidaffl,
Iterlin, .Munich, St. 1'eterflturK and IXivos
I'l.U.. The l'li'iicli M'lmol is markid liy
its aliaiidou; the .Swiss shows greater re
serve; much of the freedom of the French
and Swedish schools is tost in the 11s-
, tiian, hut in the Viennese style there is a
great gain In a certain grucelul reserve
and addetl accuracy. 'I he Viennese
school really set the model for F.uroe,
Heir Salchow of Stockholm is the Ifst
Spoilt III ul t 1 1 l-lised .SM'di"ll-Vietllll
sty I .
'I hem are in this country a few ex
ponents of the inlet national style, On
tin Conservatory Like in Central Park
and on the links and ponds in Koston,
Philadelphia and Tuxedo llieie are skaters
who have learned the correct po! ahroud.
Mr. Hi oka w has compleleil nil entirely
new organization for these enthusiasts,
the International Skating t'luli, for (lie
purpose of recovering America's lost
pnstl;e in the skating World. Mr.
Ilrokaw ho es to see the world's llglire
skating championship held In America
in a few years. Salchow, ten limes I'.uro-l-i'iin
champion; (luslav llttgel of Viiiina,
Dr. (HUmi l Fuchs of .Munich and Henry
(Ireiiauder of l.iindoii, alt former I'.uro
M'lin chunipioiis, are among those who
are giving Mr. Ilrokaw active assislanci.
In America (ieorge Hi own of iloston
and .lames It Dee or Michigan are helping
to huild up llie organization. Ill New
York those liilelested ill Mr, Ilrokaw's
seheme include Mis. Ilarger-Wallncli,
who until this year held a skating class lit
St. Nicholas ltink: Mrs. Charles S. Urown,
Mrs. Harry Ui .Montague, Mrs. II. Fahtie
stts'k, Mrs. F.rnest Isi'lin, the Misses de
Copls't, Kisklne Hewitt, AI011.0 I'olter,
Kmll Fuchs, I.ln'e lllagileii, Norman de
It. WhilehoiisK and T. C Trask.
There is a wry enthusiustio following
of the movement ut Tuxedo whi.'h in
cludes Mrs. Frederick (laltatiu, Mrs,
Cliail 's II. Alexander, Paul Tiickerman, j
Jlllllt'S C. I'.lllisll, Pielle Lilill.lld, (ieorge
(!ri"Wokl and Stuart Duncan. Among
lie llo"ton mcmliers of the new iismicI
( ii hi are Mrs. Natliaiiii 1 Sayor, Mis Ii. S.
lllililiewell, Mis. ltoheit ('. Hook -, Mix,
(ieorge Von l. Meyer, .Miss IMith I'otch,
Dr. 1. Collins Warren, llollis II. Ilunne
well, Itariell Wendell, .). Motiigomery
.Seats ami Cotuteiiay Crok.-r
;"M.hnp in the lTJt'crrja.tiorj2.l l-yl:
Mt, ar7cl Mrs. IrviTJjf Iirok.jv
PHOTO COI1ltHT
Ot KDWIff LKVICK
hJIJ OPVlQMT
fl rOnlN hfv.bK.
FIVE THOUSAND RED STOCKINGS BEING PREPARED FOR HOMES WHICH MIGHT BE FORGOTTEN AT CHRISTMAS
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' 1 1 lati" i" listening and of
he always listens hardc"t
1 et ire i hntmas he i" hear
1 lew iiue-tion this year 'I he
a 1- What am I going to gel
, nig'" Hut the new tine 1-
I put 111 my flocking?"
i nn- where Santa Claus is most
me the children are lmy
, - and scissors Awkward
- ! holding needles and
tries of the world to put 111 the top or
Vituciicio's stocking He hud watched
the Iniying or the sweater und cup and
the skutes that went Into the toe with
eager interest And now he addetl his
own chief treasure.
"Wont you miff them, dear?" his
mother iisketl.
"Of course I will," he answered. "Hut
he'll like them too. and you know I'm
all the Santa Claiif he's got."
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I For es'ery city child knows that deep
I and wide as the big puck is it wime-
times runs short on Christ nms morning.
It wus the picture or one such tragetly
.that (Irst sllggeftetl the idea or the red
'stockings. It showed two little children
sitting up in bed in a bare room with
1 cracked plastering And there wus
Santa Claus with the Christmas joy gone
out of his face and his pack unite empty
"Nothing Left "
I lie picture was on the December pgu
ot a culemlur that hung in the pleasant
Hroo! lyn sitting room or a very busy
woman ' he was a doctor's wi.'e, with
many calls upon her time, hut she round
hersell loo'.ing at the picture often that
first week ami w ishing she could put some
thing into that empty pack.
"Just as 1 hud decided that 1 could not
stand the picture and would have to take
it down. I got my inspiration," said A rs
W'atermun, smiling happily at the re
membrance "I went to n hospital to
seen sick friend and round her busy lilliug
a big red cambric slocking for 11 child
in (he out patient department. Every
body who could sit up seemed to be
j whittling, pasting or sewing.
I "I borrowed the hospital's idea at once
laud miidu up my mind 1 hut I would get
other people to help me (ill Santa L'luus's ' found a woman with six chilt'ro:i a:i 1
W'iU - rnwr
wio .Ma-raw
Jl' FW Stocluriqr
M- vement.
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1 a'" mending last year's
'hen are lilliug stockings
" ii"t their own stock-'-"
of iheir friends Santa
1 u-ted 10 loo'i out for these
' is The giant red cambric
leet long ami u foot
' 1 he boys and girls whom
-"iiH'times misses F.very
-mended lor a real boy or
"am", addles and age il
1 ; rinied curd The little
biking iheir mission very
N all or the toys lire die-
tuarl, who brought tho toy
-id colh,'ttHl in ull tin? coun-
LotxcliT? the Van yfrr Swit. Cltus.
puck, since there must Is muny who, like
me, hud never hud the chance to till 11
stocking. The city wus full of lonely,
childless people and there were thu chil
dren themselves. Wouldn't they like
to llll us Well us to get stockings''
"I called a meeting of friends and
people with whom 1 had worked on com-,
mitlees and charitable organization ofli-
cers at the Hurnard Club. 'I hey were
all enthusiastic. One woman went to the
'phone and came back w it ti the announce
ment that her husband, who wus with a
big electrical company, would have ull
tlie ctockiiii;s cut for Us. An organiza
tion iilTered 10 do the sewing for us.
Another husband has furnished the linen
name curds und hud them printed. Our
only serious e.x petise has been the cam brie
ami this year it amounted to $? til.
"At that first meeting Mr. W'ukciiiau
of the Children's Aid Society offered to
fill .Ik) stockings Several persons took
loo stockings and others took do.eiis.
W'e decided what we would put in them
sweulers, caps, games, toys, books, toilet
articles, school supplies, candy, nuts,
anything a child could use or enjoy,
except fruit, which is apt to spoil or crush.
This year a store is supplying und lilliug
the stockings for us ut wholesule rutes
rr $1.&ii, fi or $'.'.: Tin, since we found that
there were many people reudy lo give
them who did not have time to shop.
"Illlt we prefer to huve people lid them
personally, because they get more or
the Christmas reeling out or Ilium that
wuy. Mrs. W'lllium It. Adums or JS27
Pacific street. Hrooklyn, hus them to give
out, all ready ticketed w Ith the nutne und
uku "f u child cerlllied by one or the
churitahle organizations. We uru par
ticularly glad to have the children take
I hum, for this is the 'Children's Christ inns
for Children.'
"I must have filled W stockings myself
thut Urst Christmas, for wo were so lute
gutting started that bo:;o und burreU
of things were sent hero and the house
looked like a museum. Appeals came lit
on Christmas morning und I couldn't
Iwur to lot any of them go by, so I worked
right up to tho moment thut the automo
bile wus reudy to start.
"There hud liocn u heuvy snow and the
car with its loud of roil stockings coiil.I
hardly got through tho strcots, Tho
doctor woro a fur coat and uvorywhoro I
tho children grouted him with shrieks of
'Hero comes Suntu Claus!' It was hurd
to resist them when they liegged us for
thu stockings, und next trip (.took along
a pail of loose candy for I hem. ,
"At one of tho first plan's wo went wo
lit tlu new biiby without any elotV
Fortunately sve hud an extra habyV
slocking in the car. She hugged it i:i
her arms us she thanked mo.
" 'Oh. mu'utii,' fho said, 'I know tho
Lord wouldn't let a Christmas baby go
without anything to wear!"
"The next home wus two rooim in u
liM-ment where a man und his wife mid
foven children lived. They were clean
and neat, but barefooted, for thu man
simply couldn't earn enough to supply
shoes for them, In the same house wui
a little crippled girl living in one room
with her grandmother, 11 scrubwoman,
who hud to leave her iilnno ull ni-;ht.
The little thing hugged her slocking for
a minute ami then she held up her arms.
" 'I want to kiss you, Smitu Cluus,' she
said.
"Il wus all she had lo give.
" The stockings were a complete stir
priso us the organizations hail not uoliilo !
any one that wo were coming. Whe:i
win people asked whore they came frori
vo fiiid 'Santa Cluus.' The children w i
sa'.isflod with that, but 011.1 man woul.l i'i
believe limy were for his children ua il
ho saw the name.) on the card. II a.ii.l
he hadn't had s'.eady work for months
and hud hoped the society might send
the children some dinner, but ho hud
nes'er hoped for anything like this.
"The committee members delivered
2.0(H) stockings, for we hadn't time to make
any other arrangements. Iist year 11
storage concern offered space to store the
stockings and vans to deliver them, for
we had double the number. The men
couldn't lens'e their other delivering until
o'clock, and then they worked straight
through the evening without nny supper,
so thut not a single child shou! I be disap
pointed on Chrlst'iias morning This
year another company is going to help,
for we have 3,11m stockings already proin-i-eil,
though not enough to llll the appeal v
"So netimes the appeals are very hard
to resist. Iist year a teacher telephoned
me at the last minute from a free kinder
garten in Astoria, asking tor stockings
I told her I wus afraid we couldn't furnish
them. She said she hud triitl everywhere
el"e, and she guessed she would just hu-e
to pray. That was too much Tor me and I
telephoned twoof my friends. Oneof them
appealed to a Sunday school in which she
had taught for years and the other said
she would tin tell more stockings, though
she already had filled a hundred for us.
"We got the names and iiddresses of
,he cnildren ami 011 Christmas morning
ny friend telephoned to nay that ho Sun
.1 ly school had brought thu stockiu;;s.
;"ne.-o were sixty of them stucked up in
hr hallway, and two men hud come out
from the kindergarten with four suit
cases. They thought tho stockings would
lie six inches long. They dually hired n cab
and loaded it full, and they wrote uiu
afterward that after the dris'er got out
there und helped to distribute the stock
ings ho wouldn't take any money.
" I'hat is why people sometimes like to
iL'liver th" stockings i.i person One
friend savs her two littl, girls never get
into the car without begging to go see
Annie ami Mamie, whose stockings they
Tilled last year, und who came down
stairs to thank them. 'I hey get to feel
that they know the other child, whose
needs they have thought of so long
"A little hoy from across the strpel
brought me the stocking he had filled for
Willie. On top wus the black horse he
hud drawn up und down the walk all sum
mer. 'Don't you think we hud better give,
the horse to Vietro?' I asked 'His name
has just come in und there isn't time lo
fill a stocking for him,' 'Well,' he said, 'I
mended it for Willie und it's his now, hut
I guess he would give it to I'ietro.'
"The Imys like to llll the stockings us
well us the girls, and I huve hud some
splendidly filled ones from I he private
schools. If 11 boy ever thinks thai il is
girl's work' ho only hus to Is. reminded
Dial Santa Claus is 11 man.
"Wo have hud some touching reminder
of lust year. One widow wrote me thut it
we intended to wild her children stockings
I ids yenr she would like lo divide witli the
woman downstairs 'who was so poor.'
Sho euclofed the two big stockings cut
oser into four smaller ones.
"I used to have lo struggle to lie. cheer
ful nt Christinas time- the household
Unit is without children always does.
Hut I don't have to nny more und them
isn't 11 chiltl in the city who is huppioi
lliuu I, Thut's why I know thut, how
ever much tho stockings may huve
done for the children who received them,
they has-e done infinitely more for the
lieople who have filled them. It is such
a privilege to help Santa Cluus."
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PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN.