The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-05
The I,adv and the Bicycle.

The Lady and the Ricycle.
A great conflict of opinion seems to ex-
list upon the question whether bicycling
by women is immodest. and superimposed
upon it is the question whether some
special costumes devised for the use of
women bicyclers are modest or immodest.
Now the first question appears to be
A totally unnecessary one. 1t has been
the custom for women to ride on Morse
hack from time immemorial, and it has
always been considered decorous, even
graceful for her to do so. Mhy IL
should be any more unbeeoming iof her
TO use a bicycle tina a horse or a camel,
., ;s moro than hard to understand. The
position of the woman bicycle rider IS
graceful and natural, the exercise IS
said to be extremely healtnful. and the
snort is far less dangerous than horse
back riding. The benefits to mind and
Temperament of the rapid motion ana
the free open air and the constant
change OIL scene are JUST %
women as to men, and indeed women
need such spiritual tonics even more imam
men do. All things considered, bicycling
seems to be an amusement or an exer-
else specially adapted for the sex. The
people who would deprive them OF II
are the class who would, if they COULD
clothe women in feridjies and yashmaks
and seelude them in zenanas
The costume question is an altogether
different matter. Any costume "hleh IN
cludes draperies of conventional length
and amplitude should satisfy the most
fastidious: but when a woman or a girl
makes the bicycle an exercise for ex-
hibiting herself in trousers, knickerbock-
ers. divided skirts or any other mannlsh
abomination, it is time for her parents
or her husband or whoever has authority,
to interfere. There is no harms in the
bicycle itself. but it should not be made
the excuse for immodesty any more
than surf bathing.
1T is impossible to find any dissent
from the opinion that the tariff law has
given an enormous stimulus to business.
All general statements in Republican
papers to the contrary Notwithstanding,
there is not a little of evidence that
any American industry has been hurt
in the remotest degree by the change of
rates. In the few cases where wages
are reduced, the real cause is the necessity
for saving On account of the past years
impairment of profits. AS soon as the
current is fully restored, and all the
unemployed in the country are fully oc-
cupied, the pay of every class of opera
tive will speedily regain it's old level.
MR.. McEWAN made a speech on water
last night, in which he very properly
urged the necessity for the passage by
the Legislature of his State commission
bill. Now nothing in the world prevents
the passage of this measure but Re
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Gus Hobart that stops it. We sug-
gest to Mr.. MeEwan that his proper
course under the circumstances is to
come over to the Democratic party and
run for the Assembly again with his
water bill as an issue.
THE COUNTRY is to be Disguised with
a new scandal in which Senator Stewart
cock is the martyr" The sympathy
shown to that vile creature, Madeline
Pollard, is wholly to blame for this new
shock to publ decency 1t was newt
able that the cult of which she was the
object on the part of maudlin, mawkish
sentimentalists, would breed a fresh crop
of adYenturesses, and the only wonder is
that the number has been SO small.
There can be nothing more Illogical
than the public sentiment which drives
Breckenridge out of politics, in which
his talents make him useful, while it
boosts his partner in guilt into the po-
sit1on of a star upon the stage which
she can only deprave and degrade. We
are far from extenuating the guilt
of Breckinridge in any way, but we can
see neither justice nor morality, nor good
policy in placing all the burden on his
shoulders n making a heroine of a
lewd and designing woman, whose char
acter, as revealed by herself, was one
of the most detestable ever laid bare to
the public of this country.
Does the "World' editor know that
for every pottery now in operation in
Trenton one has been a financial failure
Estate Gazette"
This is one of the consequences of I'M
natural protection. It offers a prospect
Of exaggerated profits which tempts new
enterprises in the protective business
until it is overdone. Then o~yererowding,