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Skating is a sport for everybody—girls and boys, young people and old people. It can be started in extreme childhood and enjoyed far into old age. It can be a fast, strenuous exercise or a gentle enjoyment of poetic motion. It stimulates health, prompts to wholesome life out of doors, is a social diversion and, in its best development, requires considerable mental application. In every respect it is an ideal sport for people of any nation, especially those situated where natural ice is found or artificial ice is provided.

Frontispiece and cover design by Mr. Karl Struss.

Portrait Study, page four, by Count Streclecki.

All other photographs posed for at White’s Studio.

I wish to thank my American skating friend, Mr. James A. Cruikshank of New York, for his assistance in the arrangement of this book and for preparation of the manuscript for the printer.

“CHARLOTTE” on right inside edge forward.

CHARLOTTE’S personal equipment for skating.