The herald., 1895-03-25
Cycling IS 1HE FAD
Prominent Society Ladies Are
Learning to Ride the Wheel
Predicted That BIoomers Will Soon
Be the Proper Thing and Then
Will Come knickerbockers

''Yes, Nellie has everything she wants except
a telephone in her room and bicycle" was Il
remark decidedly expressed few mornings
ago. What Nellie wanted. hundreds of other
girls would like. To be able to talk to her
friends from the small den where she has her
desk, her favorite chair and the books she
prefers would indeed he enjoyable. Then to
be able to ride to see these friends just as the
fancy seizes her would be her next bliss. To
learn to ride the bicycle is the fashionable
Lenten pleasure Every morning, and nearly
every afternoon Of the week there are twenty
or more married ladies and young ladies at
Wtstlake Park learning to ride. They go out
just as they come from shopping. The modern
shopping gown is MS good as anything to wear,
for it has plain cloth skirt. Should there be
4 shirt waist under the coat 80 much the b t.
ter, for freedom OF action is one OF the neces-
sary rrqur, ments OF good rider. Circling
around the park on Wheels, with the in
structor walking and supporting the rider, or
irotting after the one who has been on several
times and can be trusted to partially go alone,
the visitor can Sc eight or ten AT the same
time.
To the uninitiated the mount seems to be the
first lesson. This is not SO. for TO noun. a
wheel and get off comes after several le, sons.
When the young woman decides 10 learn to
ride she has fastened around her waist a strong
Canvas belt. with leather handle at,he left
81 e. The instructor holds the wheel upright,
after adjusting the saddle to the right height.
foot on the right pedal, is assisted 10 the seat
tri p 10 made around the park, the instructor
holding the rider and the wheel upright by
means Oh Lne ledtHer nAHuie SnOulu one ID III
there can be but little DANCER, especially on
the smooth roads OF the park for the rider can
step quickly off TO the right or the left.
Only few minutes are spent on the wheel
the first time. some OF the riders a. re nervous.
They utter little screams, tremole and get
chilly and have quite siege OF it for the first
few times around ths park This readily dis.
appears. but there are other experiences
which somewhat unnervs one. Riders will
clutch the handle bars SO firmly that their fin
ger- cramp They bear all their weight on the
bars. The instructors endeavor to have the
rider not try to balance, but keep the body in q
direct line with the center of the wheel.
After being able to guide the wheel, the front
cne, then the direction is reversed This is
equal to learning TO guide all over again. When
the rider has learned to ride the wheel in both
d 'rections. mounting ia taken up.
To get on and of the wheel is more of a trick
than to ride af,er being on. Some learn il
quickly.
Then comes the selection OF a mount. This
is not question so easily settled, but the ma
jorty of ladies are quickly convinced that the
beautiful aud straight lined little twsnty-tw
pound Crimson Rimmed Syracuse Ladies
Wheel is the most popular and talked OF ladies
wheel in the world to-day, and then they take
themselves at once 10 the beautifully ap
poiated quarters OF the Southern Californis
agency Of the famous