The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-27

From note BY Mrs. Cora Urquhart
Potter. in the Chicago Tribune. on the sub
ject of The Wheel
Fret. then, is a woman ridiculous on
bicycle? For one, I answer. No Per-
haps my best proof lies in the fact that
women everywhere are taking it up. To
assume that any considerable number of
my sex will voluntarily make themselves
subject to rldicule al the hands and pens
of the public is to fly in the face of their
own feminine nature. The countless sac
rifices made by them everywhere to the
dictates of fashion in order to escape the
dreaded verdict "out of style" show to
what lengths they have always been
ready to go. The Parisiennes, who have
always ruled the world through their nice
sense of the fitness of things in dress, have
taken up the bicycle eagerly and made the
costume it requires as appropriate as the
gown of Worth is in a drawing room.
The motion itself is graceful, the twink
ling feet steady arms and slightly sway
Ing body making q perfect picture. A few
minutes calisthenics after each ride will
DO away with the effect of holding the
hands before one, and prevent any stoop
ing of the shoulder. There is no reason
whatever in bending the body forward in
ordinary riding, and the seat and handle
can always be adjusted SO that perfect
erectness is maintained. In this it com
back riding where the side saddle is
used. the distortion of the spine in that
torturing attitude being inevitable and I'M
avoidable.
In India. Ceyior Java, China and Japan
the most reticent countries. surely
whenever a woman goes on horsebac
she sits like a man. Arabs, Turks and Per
slams always DO and in Palestine 1 saw
many women on horses. mules, donkeys.
and carnels. and always in what l am
sure is the way nature intended Us all to
ride. Our own Indian women in all the
Americas so ride. The remains of classical
antiquity make ii certain that no Greek
or Roman woman ever thought it neces-
ssrv to face forward by turning ner body
at right angels when on horseback. Gus
toms are immutable in the Orient, ana
lust as surely as the Holy Family fed into
Egypt with the aid of the mules and don
KEYS of the country, just so surely did
the mother Of our Lord sit astride as she
rode Nor in conclusion, do believe that
this newer generation, sprung from moth
ers made stronger and better BY exercise
fresh air and sunshine able at viii to es-
cape from the smoke of modern city to
green fields and pastures new in q way
impossible to a mere pedestrian will make
In turn worse wives and mothers than our
revolutionary foremothers.
Cold water as a cure, says Society
Fads." in Demorest's Magazine for Feb
rllary. has at length been formally inau-
gurated as q fad by the gentle ladies' of
New York's smartest society. One of the
eayety-loving matrons. who went abroad
last wear a hollow eyed. romantically pale
wreck of her lovely self, the victim Of
supDers over-dainty for a delicate diges-
TOR. and of too much frivolity for so
fragile an American frame, has come back
a rosy. living exponent of the virtues OF
cold water. and an earnest prophecies
preaching TO her afflicted sisters. So ef-
factivs has been her work, that every
eeoond woman one meets is, not absent
from home and society and plunged into