The morning times., 1895-07-21
Striking Cycle KttitUd0S
By Woman H8r6abOUf0
Characteristic Poses of Pretty Creatures in Bloom
ers-Those Who Are Fair, Fat and Forty
Seen to Advantage.

The only reference in the Bible toa woman
on bicycle is in the prophet Ezekiel:
For the spirit of the living creature was
in the wheels"
EzekieTs vision evidently extended up the
ages to q bicycle riding school, where The
living creature in blue. pink, black or brown
gets the conceit Knocked clean out Of her
when She goes up against the woObling
steel steed for the first time.
The other day t one OF the schools girl
with a red six-cOrnered hat no her head
got astride q wheel.
I'm off m pedal. Hold me, eaten me,
grab me-" bat it was too late. She ran
into the brick wall on one side of the
bicycle track, and struck an attitude
Her cap slid down over her face. She
was down on her right knee, her left foot
and its covering CLEANED out under the
opposite side Of the bike, she was leaning
scarily against the wall and clung with
desperation 10 both handles of the machine.
We'll that's what you are looking for,
| amt it," said the professor to The Times
That is not exactly attitude number one
/ but it's good thing in the way Of an ex-
! perience lesson
BY this time the lady who got off her
trolley. or pedal they say at the school,
was helped up by an attendant, who
buckled a strap around her aud continued
to grab her. during the rest of the lesson.
She was bird that tried tofly too soon.
KINDS OF ATTITUDES.
In bicycle lessons there are three generic
kinds Of attitudes, but an infinite number
of specific poses when the young woman
gets seated on the hurricane deck.
The three genefiCs are getting on, stay
ing on and getting Off
Getting on is the most important OF all
because as the professor saeely remarked,
If You don't get on you can't ride.
You're in luck said the professor.
there comes our new scholar. Miss l.
You just stay here and saw wood while l
give her the first lesson. -
Miss L is a tall blonde The pro-
fessor aud she had a preliminary tax
about her skirt, and she ilualiy SAID thal
if she learned 10 ride she'd get shorter
one The professor trotted up line bl-
7 cycle aud after some maueuYerlhS go
the blonde on The blind side OF the skeleton
horse She was asked 4 She preferred 70
beheld or be strapped, 70 which hshemodestly
said she preferred 10 be both held aud
strapped
Now said the professor, Just put
your right foot through there ana get j
on the pedal, which you see Is raised or
that side, and then get up lively into th'
seat. or get upon the seat lively aud incl
put your right foot in the right place
The blonde trembled, in fact she WINS
pered audibly to the professor that sI'
had the cold shi vers-
That's all right, miss jump along, an
behold she jumped Her foot struck IN
pedal at an wkwaTd angle which turned
her ankle. she actually kicked the machinl
nearly ou it's hack and she fell back witt
Of q
This was u cross section view OF dtll'uu
No /. and il was mighty effective.
The spirit and the SKIRT OF the ilYih
; creature was decidedly IN the wheels
The professor turned his head IN Th'
direction Of The Times and held up "
fingers, which meant attitude No. z IN
blonde got tired immediately after u
first section OF the first lesson ana stoo
2 up during the rest of the evening Ioohlu
= and laughing al other unfoTtnnates'
ALL WERE BUSY.
The professor, by the way, had SIX a
sfstants. and they were all as busy 9
! they could be. holding girls on, puttlh
girls on, and picking girls up
Now. that girl said She professor
. as an overfIowing young damsel cam
along lis a dead failure. she Is lear
ing very well. hut she can't get ns
: brothers. attitude out Of her mead -
I is mannSh rider.
! This little thing held the handle pa
close in; she was pushing with might an
p main against the handles, and she VIZ
/ rocking her body from side 10 side wit
; superlative activity He face was as It
as boiled lobster, and the boy WI
y trotted behind her was getting as ia
as a rag when she thought she re
!, awhile. .
: whom this girl was in motion, in M
stvIe. whether she or the bicycle WI
- doing the work of lOcomotion-
= Talking about comic attitudes the III
niest of them all is when woman e
!, off both pedals and strikes the posls'
4 of the Colossus OF Rhodes doing hoppn
, match with hobby horse II Is Ju
[, like this:
u Something goes wrong The WON;
wants to go TO the right. and the pFude