The evening times., 1895-08-20
All Around the Wheel.

| The bicycle, face" which seems. TO
worry some people 81 much, Is undoubtedly
a reality and NOT a mere. product OF the
| Imagination. says the Providence Journal,
and 1t is perhaps not SO pleasing to behold
as the smiiing vasuity of expression " hich
| In society passes for a sign of affabiiit y
and an indications that the person wearing
| IL is enjoying himn.if. But he isn't always,
whereas the bicycle rider invariably is,
even though he may mot look So Besides,
! the bicycle facr. IL Will be observed, maKes
up in healthiness Of color what it may
lack in softness OF Ines.
The gardens and tho cycle-paths
A close resemblance bear,
For now the flo wer beds are clothed
With blooming pians 81 fair;
whiie DER the winding wheelingtours
Devotees Of the fadG
On graceful "blkesr fair maidens speed
Likewise with bloomers clad.
Divided skirts and bloomers have been
dignified by the name of nationals in
England, where the bicycle craze seems 10
be raging now as fiercely as 1t does here
TIE qursliem of cvstu's-s i,as causeu more
commotiOn there than In this country, for
IL was even brought to the notice of Par
lament. where the commissioner OF pub
lie works was interrognted as to the rules
concerning bicycling in Hyde Park. No
special rules were made, however, because
the ma jority of the women who ride find
q skirt rather than boomers the most con-
venient. Among the most graceful OF the
cyclists is the Princess Maude of Wales.
She is devoted to the exercise, and often
is seen out early in the morning merriiy
Ia king a spin. The Ducness of Fife has
taken up the fad, nd it is whispered that
Tie uucness or YORK Will be won over be-
fore long.
Bcebe-How did he come to luse the b.
cycle race?
Kaysee-His wind gave out.
Beebe-That's strange; I thought his
lungs were very strong.
Kaysee-Lungs, my eye! One Of his
tires got busted!
The men seem to be having almost as
much tronbie over their bicycling costumes
as the women, says Harpers' Weekly. There
are hotels, II seems, that will not entertain
men in knickerbockers. and they are by nc
means as welcome in all places in their
bicycle clothes as with trousers that flap
about their ankles ud modish shirts
It b largely to this consideration of
clothes that the far-seeiug look for the
preservation of the horse aud the con-
tiuuauce OF some of the oldfashioned
methods of conveyance. If men could
live and move aud transact their b,isi-
ness IN golf stockings and knjckerbock-
ers, aud women In boomers or short
skirts, the bicycles progress might be as
sure as It has been swift But as II is,
the formalities. of life, such az they are.
initiate gently, but firmly, against the
bicycle, and though they are not effect
,lal to hold It back, they do make q Httis
for its restraint.
'.Is the old man up yet, Jimmie?'
Nav" %. If
."eickr' ~
"NaW." IIs-yt ,..
"well, what's the matter with Aimr'
eMammy's. wearius his. bioomers"--At-
lauta CouStitsftioni ID,
10 :. s-'-.
Observations .by,t sxperts show that it
b not only TIE legs which are developed
BY wheeiiuE Inprevtpsrsiy sedentary per-
sons . considerable increase in the cir
cumfereuce OF the .chest takes place, the
increase often amounting to one, Two and
sometimes even three. ipchea The arms
and forearms also oaErQ1 firmer. aud it is
said that IN them als9 qaise marked In
cyease IN sisa has been seen Tho nuscu-
lar system everywhere 10 the body. also I'm.
proves is toae.-Hr. Roosevelt in scrtb-
uer's Magazine.