Steph Posted December 20, 2008 Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 Starting with the humorous one, then in chronological order. Didn't include all the times kids were hit by cars while playing marbles in the street. 1906 1851 1858 1874 1877 1880 1886 1903 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffy Posted December 20, 2008 Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 youre kiddin right????whats this to do about marble collecting???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Marbles Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Almost sounds like the great "is it a Superboy or superman?" argument that happened last year!!! LOL Sick but interesting Steph!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 And we think so much of the crud that goes on now is the result of 'modern times'! Overall, 'things' never have changed much and probably never will. Cheers, Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Just been having fun with the Times archives. Funny how important marbles were in the 1800's and early 1900's. The Times even imported stories from out of state. They reported on kids stealing marbles. On kids being arrested for playing marbles or playing marbles for keeps (in 1909 a judge in Washington declared keeps illegal). On marbles as gifts. 1884 was the year of the marble. 1885 was the year of the top and marbles "couldn't be given away". But in 1893 a bag of marbles would be welcome, especially if there were several 'reals' in it. Make the bag of duck or coarse linen and embroider the boy's initial on it. On marbles in a nostalgic way. On marbles in an educational and moralistic way. Rich society women apparently disapproved of marbles in 1909 but they were accused of turning their sons into mollycoddles. Public school boys had more "grit and vigor". On tournaments. How Arabian kids played marbles. On city planning, with parks for kids to play marbles. Marbles was bigtime. Oh yes, there was one about collecting marbles -- lol -- this boy had a huge collection of marbles without ever playing a game. He was loaning them and charging interest. Something like giving out 6 marbles and demanding 9 in return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoop Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 Mollycoddles! What a terrific word! And the cartoon. I'm dying! What a great Saturday night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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