The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-19

Mrs. Potter Palmer has given her
opinion that it is too bad for women
to be forced into athletic sports in or
der TO enjoy mans society.
Kate Field, commenting on Mrs.
Palmer's remarks. says, 1.-THE future
generations will bless their mothers
and grandmothers before them for
having given them robust health by
reason of developing their long neg
lected physical possibilities.
Over at Niagara Falls the other day
T saw hundreds of tourists, many of
them on cycles. The hack driver who
conveyed our party to the interesting
places told me that about one-half
the sightseers either bring wheels with
them or rent them. 1t is an independ-
ent way of getting around and much
more desirable than getting in and out
of a carriage. OF course, the hackmen
have no love for the blamed wheels"
Where is it going to stop? The pro-
prietor of a fashionable summer resort
at Richfield Springs, near Utica, n.
Y, has Just built a race track for the
accommodation of his guests in addi
ton to having supplied rooms for the
storage of wheels and attendants to
care for them. The track is banked
and it is used daily by large numbers
of his fashionable guests.
Kate Field says: what would not
Mrs. Bloomer give to walk the earth
and see her triumph after years of
derision and abusei Or is it her spirit
that pervades the atmosphere and i'm
pels woman to the very act their
grandmothers shrieked against? tbs
but step from the wheel to the
ground, and when once women enjoy
the untrammeled freedom Of short
skirts they will wonder why they have
carried about ssuch awful loads and
swept filthy streets like gratuitous
scavengers, bringing home microbes of
every species for the benefit of the
medical fraternity and destruction of
the family health and pocket
A sensible woman frees her mind"
as follows on the question of the "a
tional dress:
'I can't, for my life, see why the
papers, preachers and school teachers
are kicking up such a dust about what
wheelwomen should wear. Women in
the theatres, churches, carriages and
shops wear what they please. Each
suits her own individual taste. Why
can't the women who ride bicycles do
the same. Because a SLENDER graceful
woman looks we'll in a godet skirt is
no reason why her 200-pound neighbor
should don one and make a guy of her
self. IF plump, well-developed girl
looks fetching in properly-made
bloomer suit, there is no reason why
her scrawny friend should wear one
If those who cannot wear boomers
or do not approve of them would quit
criticizing those who have adopted
them, ana if, on the other hand. the
bloomerites would let their sister
wheelwomen of the long skirts swear
skirts in peace, these useless and tire
some arguments on the subject of
proper wheeling costumes would
cease, to the great relief of all who
read
1t will be remembered that DR..
Blanche Moor Haines said: ''I have a.
pet hobby that majority of woman's
difficulties are due to weak abdominal
muscles
From this would deduct that the
corset is responsible for weak abdom-
inal muscles; weak abdominal muscles
are responsible for woman's weakness.
woman's weakness is responsible for
weak, sickly children; weak sickIv
children grow up to be race of in
ferior beings.
The wheel is the Moses to lead weak
woman to robust health and save the
nation.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. sc &
Mitchell and w. B. Taylor. bicvclistq
arrived here today from Denver. bav,
ing covered the entire distance on their
wheels. They left Denver on June
WITHOUT cent, on wager of $500 that
tney would reach Philadelphia by An
gust 70 with $500. With a week To
spare they have accumulated $3.50 nv
giving banjo and mandolin concerts
en- route. -
COLOGNE, Aug. 1S.-The worlds
championship and International cycI-
ing congress continued it's sessions
here today. In the race for the mile
championship of the world twenty
eight started Eden, of Arnheim, won:
Petersen. of Denmark. second, and
Schaf. Of Cologne, third
In the race for the hundred ki1o-
metres, open, professional worlds
championship, with pacemakers, Mich
ael, of England. won, being three
miles in front of Lucien, of Denmark.
second, and Homann of Munich. third
Time-2 hours, "a minutes, IS rs sec
onds.
All Cream Tartar tested and found
pure, before 1T is used i'm the max
ing of the new High Grade T7,-o.