Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-18
Parisians Interested in Bicycles.
POSSIBLE CHANGE OF FEMININE DRESS ON ACCOUNT OF
THE WHEEL.

Faf1s1anS interested IN BtCyCleDs
POSSIBLE CHANGE OF FEMININE DRESS ON ACCOUNT OF
THE WHEEL
Writing from Paris to London Truth Mrs. CraW.
ford, the bright and brainy correspondent says:
Is only twenty years ago since Rochefort scorched
with his vitriolic humOr the late prince imperial
and his young friend AlphOnsO OF Spain hen Prince
OF Asturias) on their rage for bicycling They used
to ride matches against each other In the private
garden gardens OF the Tuileries, hidden by screen OF
shrubs from the public gaze. The velocipede was
first known somewhere about the beginning OF
the century and came out In Paris in the
champs Elyseea But 1t soon went out riders
having met with serious mishaps In descending
the hill there. Then the original poiture du1
Peddtes was forgotten until one was found by q
glazier In the garret OF an old beau. The machine
tickled the finder. He bought it as old iron, and
sent corrected and improved copy OF It to the
prince imperial, who took fancy to it. insisted on
give 1t up. What place the velocipede has since
taken In the world as bicycle or tricycle.! After
French ribbons had killed Coventry the town was
raised to LIE again by the manufacture OF the steel
horse, and It Is now, as velOcipedOpOlis, whipping
the rest OF Europe. Improvements succeed each
other SO swiftly that what is novel to-day at Gov
we nave had the sociable tricycle..
LATEST THING OUT.
hear that the last thing out at the great works
at st. Ouen, which are trying to get up to War.
wickshire manufacturers is the velocipede divorce
1t is capable OF being divided If the pair travelling
60 one way and the gentleman another Amerf.
cans have familiarzed US with honeymoon tours
on sociabls tricyclea Yankee who ran around
enabled him to claim honestly the famous fitch OF
bacon They passed so quickly from one place OF
absorbing interest to another that neither had the
went into Spain, but soon went out OF 1t again
they found the roads so rough and rutty. There
Is a velOcidrome as well as hippOdrome now in
Paris.
Members M the town councf, tbint NJ turn,no
over the Grand Prix fund to the velOcipedists and
so encouraging the home manufacture OF steel
horses. Carrtage-builders are taking valuable
hints from the metal steed. have just seen a
pony dog-cart, miracle OF lightness, with wheels
and springs borrowed from those OF bicycles and
tr1cycleS The vehicle was strong enough for a
couple OF adults to use 1t, and light enough to be
drawn at fast pace by Newfoundland. On the
I'd OF next month there will be grand interna-
BOulogne. Turfists had better look out for them
selves. can imagine the public being brought to
regard velocipede matches as more exciting than
horse racing.
EFFECTS OF WHEEL COSTUMES ON DRESS
II there is to be q thorough change In feminine
dress 1t will arise from the use the American
lady tourists are making Of the sociable TRICYCLE.
Madame Art1e de valsayre ought, therefore to
look with hope TO what the future may bring
forth. The Amazon has tried in vain to convert
her sex here TO blOOmerism, and she petitoned the
chamber to authorize them to get rid OF troublesome
gowns a ana inc more complicated
committee OF the house appointed TO look into her
prayer found that there Is no sumptuary regula-
ton In the code against ladies dressing themselves
as men.
Encouraged by this discovery, Madame Artie
has appealed to Worth as q legislator on dress,
and has asked him TO devise q costume which
would secure TO the working woman the free play
OF her muscles and release her from half-hOOps
n0unced pett1coats, and so forth Plus 0uUent!
Worth Is not going TO quarrel with fashions that
Drought him wealth, however ridiculous they may
be. But think that somebody who has name
business by launching the tunic and baggy zOuavo
trOuSerSespecially II they were tastefully got up