The record-union., 1896-08-02


When Mary rides bicycle,
She wears a natty suit,
With leggins trim and saucy cap,
And oh, she is a "beaut''
She doesn't wabble on her wheel,
But sits up straight and fair,
And seeing her, the men all stop
To watch her everywhere.
When Harry rides a bicycle
He straps his trousers tight
Around his ankles in a bunch,
And, oh, they are a. sight!
He humps his back like an old cat,
In most ungraceful crooks,
And every one who sees him says,
How bad that fellow looks
The moral of this bit of verse
Is plain enough, guess;
1t is that bicyclists should be
Most careful how they dress.
A wheel makes one conspicuous,
And one brought in the sight
OF thousands of his fellow-men
Should try to dress just right.
-SOmerVille Journal.
Here is what Dr. Thomas Opie says:
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q few fools and will be an indirect ben
eft in this way, but the direct benefits
will more than compensate for this small
loss to the community.
Woman too long cloistered, needs ex-
ercise. The old-fogy notion that wo-
mans place was in the household con-
tinuously to care for the children and
her other duties is happily dying out.
Cha iS pnrcfif1Itp1 rahH-Sfra i1U a n
are, and just as much needs fresh air
and light and exercise. Our anatomy
teaches that she has the same muscles,
so, surely, there is as much reason for
developing them as for the man athlete
to strive for physical prowess.
FOR a greater reason does a woman
need perfect physical development She
is the connecting link with coming gen
erations. Exercise, properly taken,
gives her better tone, the blood is aer-
ated better and the circulation is i'm
proved. With this comes better assiTni-
lation of food and everything conducive
to building up and maintaining the gen
eral system All this the bicycle gives
her. Primarily it takes her out into the
open air and sunlight, which are the
essentials of vegetable and animal life.
Then il brings into play muscles of
which she was in almost unconscious
possession.
When a bicycle rider first tries to
mount a hill on his wheel he is made
ashamed by the slight-lookng rider who
passes him and easily advances on the
incline. But, after practice. unused
muscles are developed and hardened,
and then the hill-climbing is easy. It
is. believe, not so much knack as bet
ter muscles for that purpose which
makes hill-clmbing easy on a wheel.
With a woman. riding a wheel be-
comes an art as much as the delicate
touch she gives in playing a piano or
as one becomes dextrous in tactile manip-
ulation 1t is not so much a matter of
effort or muscle as Of ability and agility.
Then, a woman is more graceful
looking than man on wheel because
she does not, as a rule. assume the
monkey position. Neither does she, if
she is wise, enter into racing.
"Of course. am assuming that the
benefits to women are to be derived
from moderate riding, according to the
strength and individual power of the
rider. She is to observe periodical rests
from riding, just as she would not en-
gage in any other exercise at certain
periods. At all other times, l believe,
to the great majority of women bicycle
riding is a decided benefit"
The bah bearings of the machine are
delicate pieces of mechanism, in which,
as will subsequently, be explained, the
hardened steel balls run on coned sur
faces. which admit of the adjustment
cf. or the taking up of, wear by closer
approximation, whether as part of
threaded nut or actuated by it, and it
is very necessary to keep the ball bear
iugs adjusted within a reasonable
range.
OF course. the bearing must not be
too tight. or broken balls are sure to
be the result but a very loose bearing
permits of irregular running, which, of
course. means irregular wear; and In
due season when the bearing is prop
ellv adjusted, the irregularly worn
cones cause ii to be tight at one point
and loose at another, with the result
that the balls are broken, the internal
faces of the cones scratched and worn,
and these roughened faces again react
upon the new balls put in TO replace
the old ones.
Every rider of cycle should make
himself conversant with the construc-
ticn of the bearings and the methods
OF adjustment used in the machine he
rides, as in nothing is the wise saw
about "a stitch in time" so fully jus
titled as in the care of the bearings of
the modern cycle.
The same remarks. of course, apply
to the ball bearings fitted TO the pedals,
bracket and other parts of the cycle,
and in a general way it may be said
that care of the bearings is care of the
cycle, for if the bearings are all right
and in good running order the machine,
unless some radical fault exists in its
construction, cannot be far wrong.
The bearings sometimes get clogged
up with oil and dust, and If the ma
chine is only occasionally used they
may get absolutely stuck. This state
of things can be remedied by injecting
a little parafIine, which liquifies the
thiekened oil and causes it to run out
If the wheels are vigorously rotated
for short time.
The salesman in the bicycle shop
afeuped forward fo greet the f,rOSDec-