The Badminton Magazine 1899-12: Vol 9 Iss 53 (1899)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 31
ned that there is a little truth in the remark made by a detractor that an Englishman looks as though he had swallowed the poker and had not yet digested it. In foreign skating legs and arms are held anyhow, and, in fact, it does not matter how a figure is performed as long as it is executed with… … versus free trade, bimetallism versus mono-metallism. There is no doubt, however, that foreign skating appeals more to the gallery, even an Englishman preferring it at first sight to the severe British style. At St. Moritz, where there is no skating club, most of the hotels have private rinks for…
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