The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-24
ness, and the doctors cannot account for his strange temporary recovery.
ANOTH BIOYOLN QUESTION.

4ANOTHER BIOYOLE QUESTION.
 The action of the College Point board
 of education against the riding of bicy-
 cles to school by women teachers has
 been pretty thoroughly discussed, and
 the general consensus of opinion ap- pears to be that the members of the
 board are back numbers and should
 be laid on the shelf. There is decided opposition to bloomers for teachers, but very little to bicycles. A member of the board of education of that progressive city Chicago puts the matter about
 right when he says; It would be down.
 right tyranny, just at the time when
 every other woman is riding a wheel,
 or trying to, for a few men to get to-
 gether and say the teachers shall not
 ride to or from school. My observation
 Is that women who have wheels at their
 heels are not troubled with them In
 their heads.
 The queer action of the College Point
 board of education will not be initiated. It will be generally felt that whatever loss of dignity a woman teacher may suffer in riding to school on her bicy- Gle will be amply compensated by the
 gain in vim and efficiency which will come to her from her use of her wheel. But though this matter Is already pretty well settled the bicycle continues to be a disturber. The latest outbreak is in Albany, New York. where the minister of Hope Baptist church has been forced to resign because certain elderly and in- fluential members of his church object ed to his making pastoral calls on a bicycle. Of course there is no telling what elderly and influential members of a church wtll do. We have heard of one elderly and influential member of a ] church who drove his minister out of town because said minister was in the | habit of going to market mornings with | a basket on his arm. He was one of the | best preachers the town ever had, but | the wealthy and influential member couldn't stand such lack of style, and | so the poor man had to go. Probably the elderly and influential members of the Albany Baptist church who have lriven away a minister because he made pastoral calls on bicycle have an idea that it is undignifed for servant of .he Lord to carry the Lords messages on a bicycle. It would be all right to .ake them in a stylish carriage or even 70 walk with them, but to carry them ,n a bicycle doesn't look well, and is It will have to be ad- nitted that there are preachers ofl the ,ospel who don't look impressive on bicycle, just as there are college pro- essors who don't. But there will not ,e many ministers turned out of their ulpits for bicycle riding. Already many f the younger members of churches idle, and some of the elderly and infiu- ntial ones do the same. The habit is oing to spread so that it will include Il the members, both male and female, xcept those who are physically inca acitated So the riding ministers will e all right, as most of those who now , ide are. And soon bicycle riding will t e taught in theological seminaries so ' s to add to the efficiency of mission ries and ministers in spsrsely peopledI 1, agions. | The elderly and influential Albany a aptists who have deprived themselves 2 tLe influence of good man and a n pod bicycle rider have made a mistake. t hey care more for form than substancel h nd they are blind to the signs of the 5 mes N