Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23


world has streets as finely laid out and
as perfectly kept as has Paris. No.
where else in Europe can the cycier
glide for miles on miles over wood-pav-
ed avenues without nut or pebble,
scraped, sanded and watered Till the
road surface is as smooth as floor.
| There is not an avenue or boulevard
in Paris which is not more than COM
Portable riding for the wheel, and such
magnificent driyeways as the Champs
Elysees and the Avenues Gu Bois de
Boulogne are ideal.
Even in the thick OF the business Sec
ton. near the Grand Opera, and along
the Grand Boulevard the cycle Is every
! where.
ALL SORTS OF WHEELS.
There are cycles OF all imaginable
shapes, and there is fair sprinklinR OF
| every style which has been invented.
When the modern "safety" superseded
the ''ordinary" With its big front wheel,
the abandoned ones fell within the
reach of the Paris clerk, and even OF
the .bloused workman OF the better class,
and he now rides IL to and from his
work. All the English makes may be
seen, even to the "Star" and the Eek
traordinary Challenge" besidas innum-
cradle queer French movements. for
one OF the Frenchman's hobbies 10 in-
yention.. Here and there one sees ma
chine with double set OF pedals, whose
rider employs both hands hand feet for
its propulsion, and on the country
roads about Paris sometimes you meet
an experimenter carrying small sail.
"Sociabes" and double tandews are
ordinary, and more rarely one sees .
triple tandem.
| An outfit now attracting attention
along the boulevards OF Paris lie q bicycle
built for fiye-evidentIy family. Two
little boys SIT side by side In front, two
women-presumably mother and dau-
ghter-dIrectly behind them, and back
OF all, on q seat slightly elevated, the
father In charge OF the steering-gear.
There are five sets OF pedals, and each
one does q share OF the work. A Paris
manufacturing firm offers models OF
these family cycles TO accommodate
any number, and with any arrange
ment.
PARTISAN BICYCLE COSTUMES.
Very much has been said OF the daring
| bicycle costumes OF the women OF Paris.
But the new fashion has demonstrated
that ft is fully consistent with modesty,
and at the same time has ali the beauty
Of utility.
What the men do Ia France II Is only
a question OF time when the women
will do also. The Frenchwoman Lahore.
above all things TO appear well tn the
ewes OF the man, and adopts bis lIkings
to please him. This is part OF the
French girls education. The Partisan
sits in the cafe and drinks aDsiDthe, and
the Psrlsienne sits beside him. He
pIay. billiards, and the Parisienne, bis
wife can often give him points- He
! smokes cigarettes aud occasionally
dueIs. So does the Psrisienne.
So, when the men bought bicycles
the French women were not long In
making up their minds TO ride With
them. And they did.
| They soon discovered that the skirt
was very mach In the way. The Eng
Iish woman would have put up with
this forever, but not so the Psrisienne.
who straightwsy began 10 experiment
| She first shortened the skirts and PIT
on long riding boots Of Russian leather,
but this was not graceful. and the boot
hampered the free moysment OF the
limb. Then she tries q plated shirt,
| falling below the knee, aud wore be-
meath II tight knee breecbes.
This costume held sway for two sea-
sons, and was taken up-wtth slight
eIongatIon OF the skirt-by English and
American lady riders. This IL the eos
tune favored By Lady Henry Somerset
in England. just now OF Boston-snd
Miss Frances e. Willard 10 Amsrics,
WAC ara respectively president and vice
president OF the English Mobray House
Cycling Association. wnich isdoing 80
much at present TO encourage feminine
cycling In the Western world.
But the Psrisienne found thai fbs
| skirts caught IN the coGs. aD1, three
seasons ago, kicked tte skirt aside and
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