The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-07-20

many hours day for the ticket and as
reward he may expect to develop into
giant OF strength and endurance; i'm
pervious TO fatigue, with a clear head, a
contented mind, some remindful bruises
occasionally and some new experience.
VI course the clothes lend color 10
these bright illusions-if they prove
lllusions-for both man and woman GER
tainly do look more athletic in the
stockings and knickerbockers OF the
cycling suit than in the conventional
everyday dress and there is salts
faction in that even though the trans.
formation goes no further. But il does.
and as rule he realizes his expectations.
With the PHYSICAL regeneration comes
making anew morally and mentally
under the beneticent influence OF this
magical aid TO reform. The lazy man
finds himself freed from the bondage OF
the morning nap through the superior
enticements of the dewy morning as it
wakes the birds and the blossoms out
in the quiet country 5y-ways. The bit
OF a holiday with which he begins the
day makes business run more smoothly
and the noise and heat of the town does
not seem SO uncomfortable with the mem
DRY OF that morning spin comforting
one soul,
Irritable people are reformed int
respectable members of the community
through the healing influence of quiet
rides on quiet highways after the days
work has exhausted their entire stock
of civility and good nature.
Those evening and morning rides, by
the way. develop all sorts of ambitions
in the cyclist. He cherishes hope
that this close communion with nature
may even develop him into a poet; and
that sitting at the feet of Parnassus, he
too may sing of those beauties of nature
in which he is permitted TO live. III he
is morbid he expects to become christ
ianiZed-and in many senses his expec-
tatioES are realized through the good
fellowship which is a salient feature OF
the wheel. Careless people who neglect
their friends are ambitious to again be-
come courteous in the matter of visits
and they do-since it Low takes less
than no time to go from one end of the
town to the other.
The bicycle is a revolutionizer. 1t
has brought a new stimulous into the
every day life, into the highways and
byways Of this work-a day world. Has
injected new interest into thousands of
hum-drum lives. Proved a safety valve
for much supertlous energy, since it
beguiles the energetic into reactive
resting and offers sane and quiet out
let for animal spirits, that attribute OF
youth so terrifying to respectable .elder
ly people. Has proven the priceless
boon Of health TO many an invalid
woman. to whom came invalidism and a
consequent thousand other ills from the
mete ignorance of rational exercise.
And after all, it IS quiet is the wheels
greatest charm. The fact that in this
invention the problem of noise has been
overcome seems to stamp it as very
high product of scientific knowledge.
We realize today what terrible enemy
Of humanity noise is and We know that
as man grows wiser he will eliminate
this disturbing factor from his daily life
for it is wholly Improbable expendi-
ture Of force. this wear and tear which
we undergo from the useless din that
envelops nearly every industry.
Any instrument which makes noise
is yet in an imperfect state. The clatter
of the type writer must be silenced be-
fore we can recognize that now almost
indispensable and useful machine as
perfect. Listening to the noise OF the
sewing machine has sent many poor,
struggling woman to the insane asylum
and adds in no small degree to the work
of running it. Everywhere noise i'm
plies imperfection while that which