The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . FIGURE SKATERS. SKATING IN AUSTRIA AND GERMANY. By the REV. R. E. MACDONALD, British Vice-Consul at Innsbruck. S f^UCH severely coldweather as used tomark the wintermonths in England thirtyor forty years ago isnowadays rare the days of my child-hood we used to reckonupon a certain amountof skating each year, norwere we often out of ourreckoning. In these days,however, he who is benton enjoying this health-ful and exhilarating pas-time, if not content withartificial ice, has fre-quently to cross theChannel to
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . FIGURE SKATERS. SKATING IN AUSTRIA AND GERMANY. By the REV. R. E. MACDONALD, British Vice-Consul at Innsbruck. S f^UCH severely coldweather as used tomark the wintermonths in England thirtyor forty years ago isnowadays rare the days of my child-hood we used to reckonupon a certain amountof skating each year, norwere we often out of ourreckoning. In these days,however, he who is benton enjoying this health-ful and exhilarating pas-time, if not content withartificial ice, has fre-quently to cross theChannel to gratify histaste. It would be in-teresting to know what percentage of the boysand girls now at school in England have everworn skates. I fancy the returns would show avery small total, at any rate when compared withwhat the number would have been in the dayswhen ice was not so rare a luxury. Of the main-English who, whether children or adult, have notyet attained to the writers venerable age, andwho are spending their first winter in any foreignresort that brings skating within their reach, it isvery obvious that the majority, with very fewexceptions, find the experience an entir
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