San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-04
THE HORSE AND THE BIKE
The Bloomer Girl Says the Horses
Dav is About Over.

The Bloomer Girl Says the Horses
Dav is About Over.
"Since the cycle has come into use
the horse day Is over" remarked a
bloomeritp. "No true wheelman
could feel any interest in the.
beast after having known the joy
OF taking ten mile run on a BIZ
cycle over first class road. When
/ look at woman all logged out
in velvet and ermine, think Oh,
if you only could know how much
better you would feel in a short
skirt and sweater! and at a man
in his stiff shirt front and careful
ly creased trousers, wondering if
he knew of the comfort of golf
stockings and knickerbockers.
Really, think the horse will pass
into history in few years"
"What nonsense you do TALK
put in slender girl in an i'm
ported suit. "Now, Pm very fond
OF cycling, but l wouldn't give up
my horse for anything. The wheel
cannot be compared in the same
breath with the horse. and the
.horseless age is by no means upon
us and never will be so long as
man reigns over the earth. Think
what this animal has done for us.
1t has led nations to great victories
against each other. 1t has broug hit
n fhnnnonIn 80
women, and it has carried thou
sands from some plague or other.
1t has put the very food in our
mouths, for how could the farm
ers till the field without horses?
Can a man plough with a bicycle?
/ rather think not, and when it
comes to pleasure horses can
certainly bring Measure and SUM-
shine and air to the countless
multitude Of invalids who couldn't
think OF getting into an electric or
steam car, much less mount a BIZ
cycle.
"There is no reason for anybody
saying that cycling will take the
place OF riding or driving. Such a
thing is absurd. People who can
afford to keep a horses generally
own a wheel, too, and I'll be will
ing to wager a good deal that
they are fonder of their horses
than their wheels. The horse will
never be laid on the shelf until the
millennium. That's coming when
all the earth is at peace, l believe,
and until then there will be war,
and so long as nations fight each
other the horse will continue king
over the wheel.
"4ou are right" interrupted a
stout woman in homemade bloom
ers. at is the middle class that
rules the world, and the middle
class says that the horse must 90,
Very few people in this class
can afford to keep a horse, but
most of them are able to own
wheels, and Furthermore, working
people are beginning to use bi.
cycles, both for pleasure and for
business, right along nowadays
When people generally take up a
hS oS ohoy are Taxing I'D cy-
cling, 1t is pretty sure to become
universal. Now l don't mean to
say that the time is coming when
we won't see some horses in use
but rather fancy that in a few
years man or woman on horse.
back will be as much an object OF
comment as person, especially q
woman, on a wheel was ten years
ago. 1t will be a great day when
wheels become universal means
OF locomotoin where no great dis
lance Is to be travelled, and I be
Ileve that day will come in the
woman's century, which is next
so wise men and women SAW
Nit, nit" said a girl in .
Princeton sweater. "It's no use t.
vast more time talking about thit
subject. The horses day is almos
done, and he will probably pas
! lto sausage meat during the frs