The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-06-15
CYCLO-MANIA INDEED.
What We May Expect Before Many
Moons By Way of Conversation.

What We May Expect Before Many
Moons By Way Of Conversation.
Scene: Riverside drive on lovely
morning. Mabel and Gladys seen sprint
ing along at q furious gait towards Clare
mont for q morning bracer.
Gladys-Isn't this just too lovely fol
anything?
Mabel-Grand. My cyclometer reads
2:2S to the mile since we left Colum bus
plaza. Now, if the men dared to do that
the park policemen would jug them.
Gladys-Of course. And they should,
too. Women are privileged characters
nowadays. Besides. what policeman
would dare arrest any women in S6Ol
Felix bloomer costume, unless he was
paid to do it for sensation?
Mabel-True, my dear. What have you
on the tapis for to-day?
Gladys-Well, to begin with. at Il
o'clock the Lady Scorchers' Cycle Club
will meet to discuss the advisab ility Of
them into the professional ranks. Great
row anticipated. Then comes luncheon
with the Murray Hill Lady Sprint.
ers' Wheel Club to meet Miss Marie
Pedalmount, who has an English record
of l:2l on a kite track. and who has come
over to compete for the Michaux 81 COO
punch bowl at the next ladies' tourna-
ment
Mabel-Very good. Then what?
Gladys-Oh, then shall saunter down
to Carnegie Hail, where Professor Big
head is to give learned lecture to lady
cyclists on the subject of ''Gears." illus
trated with stereOpticon views, and
where the latest cycling songs will be
sung.
Mabel-How jolly! And then what?
Gladys-Three afternoon cycling pink
teas and a cycling ladies' stunning party
into darkest Greenpoint and back. GreaI
sensation, Pm told. 1t certainly will be
if it looks anything like it smells. After
"How to Train for the Lady Hustler
Handicap" and also 1.-THE Ethics, Future
and Development Of the Hump" by DIR.
Amelia Jambon, illustrated by several
humps in active stages of development.
Then comes the debate at the Park La
dies Pedal League on "Bloomers vs..
Knickerbockers."
Mabel-Then you will come and dine
with me, won't you?
Gladys-Impossible my dear. Dine al
the Waldorf to meet the delegates from
the several Ladies' International Cycling
Leagues. Great speeches and no end Of
sport. Our new organ, the Lady Hum
| naerS' Gazette, speaks OF it as the one
great event of the season to the lady
wheelers. Afterward we occupy nine
boxes at the Metropolitan, where the
Grand Opera troupe is giving ''Zipp, OF
| the High-Gear Maiden of Cycletown,' y
torchlight procession of wheelwomen tC
Fordham to supper with the Lady Squirt
ers' Country Club, and a thOusand.dOllal
road race back again.
Mabel-Gracious! l should think that
you would be tired these days.
Gladys-SO am |. pneumatic tired most
of the time. Great sport, though. Well
mere we are at ClaremOnt. Shall I order
light luncheon for six?
Mabel-Better make it for nine, dear.
am good for five of them myself. How
are your biceps to-day?
Gladys-Fine. Hard as steel. I broke
| q stove-poker over them this morning
just to sec if / could dent them q little
but couldn't. How's your digestion?
| Mabei-Good. can eat all my husband
| cooks and never feel it.
Gladys-Ah the poor men. We quit.
| forget their existence in this rapid pace
of our advancement, don't we? The pool
| dears! We'll. week from next Thurs
day l intend to give my husband a day
out, and stay at home and mind the chill.
dren. / know it will be a terrible bore
but one must give up little time to ones
| husband, and for the benefit OF futur,
generations. you know.
| Mabel (sighing)-Oh, yes; suppose so
| It's debt we owe society and prosperity
but it's an untold bore. 1 think all th,
wheeling clubs will combine in the future
and abolish husbands entirely. They'r,
only necessary evil at best. All, here
are our nine luncheons. PIl toss you Il
see which has the odd one. There!
have won. Who says that the ancien
classic race OF Amazons has not reap
peared on earth in the persons OF the lad
bicycists2 Rah! rah! rah!-New Yorl
| World.