The morning times., 1895-08-11

three occasions she had come and gone away
disappointed because there were no bicycles
for her sex in the store. Then she began
to carry q small satchel with her. 1t
happened for some time she succeeded in
getting a lady's wheel. On such occasions
she would ask that the satchel be kept
until her return.
Zone afternoon she came and the lady's
machines were all out She had the satchel.
A look of determination came over her face.
She looked towards the office ard then said:
- You gentlemen please all go outside,
am going into the office there and put
on d suit OF boomers
Fifteen minutes later she emerged with
as modest a suit of boomers as one could
think of seeing, yet clothes that enabled her
with ease TO ride the wheel OF her brother
and she peddled away. She had tucked
every stitch of the garments she removed
into the satchel, we suppose, for we saw
nothing of them after she left"
THEY WILL TALK.
The men who rent bicycles all agree that
men are the more preferable customers
of the two sexes The women, they say,
always want to relate every little incl
dent that happened on the ride when they
return, and they Insist on your hearing IL.
If the dealer is busy and turns deaf ear
they grow angry and will not return
1t is not everybody that can rent a
wheel If the man who has them to rent
knows you it is all right reference
is the next best thing II he knows your
face by seeing You frequently pass his
store it is generally all right, for he knows
that you must have some settled business
or you would not constantly travel the
same route. deposit is the last manner
in which TO rent the wheel
THE GUARANTEE
This deposit is generally So, and is given
To indemnify in case of accident, not to
pay for the wheel If the deposit were
for this latter purpose it would al
ways have To be so high that few wheels
would be rented. The renter must take
his risk OF theft or total loss. But expe-
rience soon teaches him, like in other
professions, the honest from the dishonest
customer.
The renter considers a reference TO some
one he is acquainted with or some one
well known in the community as particu-
larry good. He knows that only the honest
can get references.
Very frequently riders will rent bi-
| cycles by the week or month, or even for
| the summer. One city dealer has an even
dozen wheels out for the summer An
other has five taken away-to the sea shore.
/ They are all ladies' wheels, he says. Those
whose vacations are limited to a short time
often hire a bicycle ana take it TO the
country with them.
A WHEELS STORY.
"If one could only follow one OF these
! wheels from the time ii is bought until
! it is past using he might tell an interest
| ing story" said a popular bicycle renter
who numbers his regular customers with
/ three figures. The same wheel VIII to-
! day be leaned against the front fence of a
] fashionable house in the north west where
| the belle of the household is Just learn-
! ing TO ride, and tomorrow it VIII stand
10 the gorgeously decorated hallway of u
resort below the avenue.
1t must be remembered that women ofthe
latter section are among the first to take
up with new fads, and there is hardly one
in the more exclusive houses of that char
acter who has not already learned TO ride
the bicycle.
ONE BIKES ROMANCE.
Al do know a little history connected
with one of my wheels. 1t is not in the
store at this minute. a rather nervous, but
pretty young lady of about twenty has
rented it regularly for-some ,moutis now.
About the third time she took the wheel
I out young man in the Pension Office
| began coming 10 me to rent a wheel
1T SO happened that on Eeveral occa-
| sions one would come while the other was
| inst nninir nnt or cnIniLfr III ANYWAY thnr