February is perhaps as good a month as any other to learn to skate.

The simplest, and most approved method, is as follows:

One high-ball, another high-ball, 1 more high-ball, simply a high-ball, just one more high-ball, ditto, the same, and lastly, a highball. (Note—After the glass is full say, "Not another drop.")

You will be surprised at the ease with which you can skate.

"Spreading the Eagle" is a very pretty and artistic skating figure. It is done by trying to get from one side of the street to the other all in the same night.

"Looping the lamp-post" is also quite an achievement in skating. It doesn't make any difference which of the two lamp-posts you loop—take your choice. It is difficult to give directions how to do this. The feat has to be seen to be learned. There is a simpler way of doing it, however, and that is—stand perfectly still while the lamp-post passes around you.

Two persons skating together for mutual assistance are known as "a pair of skates."

An expert skater can skate just as well in July as in February.