St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-14

they will become more sociable. If
this is happily brought about, the ex-
curSion will be extended, and the
meet next Friday afternoon may re-
suit in a picturesque descent upon
Hennepin avenue, which will throw all
minneapolis into paroxysm of jeal-
ousy and a violent attack of wheel
fever.
1t is easy to distinguish Spring and
Fall girl while on her wheel-first by
her unstudied, but unavoidable, aspect
OF petrified felicity, and next by the
black and blue ribbons streaming from
the Misrepresentation that holds I'D
the handle" This last expression may
not be technical, but 1t is Ineligible
All parts of a wheel are ''what-you-
call ems" to a bicycle girl
The club costume is not yet an
nounced, but it is understood that all
the bicycle pictures that have ap-
peared in Life. Puck, or Truth will not
embody the beauty and originality of
the uniforms upon which the sun OF
May will cast his admiring rays.
Miss Alice Pope is one of the most
fervent cyclerettes in the club. She
believes that excessive devotion to eye
ling disturbs the nervous system, and
that nothing will so calm these over
strained nerves as a quiet wheel down
the aventfe. Therefore, she wheels
for exercise, and subsequently rests
upon her wheel.
"a great many of the girls neglect
their wheels, and do not, therefore,
fully enjoy the sport said Mrs. Pope
Some never wheel at all before lunch,
and very few are out of an evening
Yet this is decidedly the pleasantest
time to ride. except the afternoon and
the morning. If the girls would go out
even on these occasions, and not at
any other time, they would gradually
grow accustomed to the exercise
Miss Leonora Horn complained bit
terly of the malignant disposition of
her wheel. She stated that she had
named it ''Mephistopheles," or
''Mephy," for short, and added: I'm
sure it deserves the name, the horrid
thing! But come away from the win
dow. It's out on the porch and may
hear me. You would be appalled,,
positively. if you'd watch that old
wheel. Now / can ride very nicely.
All the girls say so. But it makes no
difference. That
WHEEL WILL SEE A ROCK,
even in the dark. 1t will hunt up a
tree even if it has to turn down a
side street to get at it. 1t runs over
the stones and into the trees. If it can
only spite me-the mean thing-it
never thinks of it's own feelings. 1 be-
lieve it would like to puncture itself.
II 1t could, and let its soul escape from
the gaping wound, like one of old
Homer's heroes, but 1 don't encourage
suicide. Besides, no girl can mend a
tire-thats the name, isn't it, of the
pipe that curls around the wheel?-
| and they're just deceiving you wicked
! ly when they say they can.
why, / know one girl that put on
| a perfectly lovely bicycle costume,
| made after the very latest Paris pat
terms. 1t was beautiful afternoon,
and every one was out She got way
| down near Selby, and her wheel lost
| it's breath, so to speak. It's front lung
fattened right out, and this girl had
| to take it up tenderly by the front end
and push it along like a wheelbarrow,
all the way up Summit till way past
Mackubin. My wheel would like to
do that. It's just mean enough, but
it doesn't dare"
If the facts above stated teach no
useful lesson, it is because the reader
has not yet realized that, when he calls
this spring upon a representative st.
Paul girl, he must talk of CYCLIC
meters instead of stars. He must Gull
his opposite quotations from the
scholarly works of Spalding, Pope and
Overman and by his centuries he
must swear to love her as long as her
wheel goes around.