The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-21

seriously initiate against the attainment
of proficiency on the piano.
How do you manage it?" queried the
short-skirted girl in tan leggings, of her
cycling chum. Here you've Just return
ed from an all-day ride and your skin
looks as fresh and clean as if you'd come
cret?''
"Chamols leather" was the reply, as the
speaker drew from beneath her belt a tiny
strip of the stuff. when I feel as If dust
and perspiration were making a guy of
me, polish off my countenance with
this bit OF chamois,, and I'm certain of
A good hint to the damsel who wants
to look in trim while wheeling with the
brethren.
The League of American Wheelmen
now has a membership of $3.50. This is
the greatest number that has ever been
enrolled in the organization The total
has gradually increased from year TO
year, until predictions are now ventured
by league officials that a membership OF
10000 viii be enrolled by December While
bicycle riding has gained in popularity
throughout the country, it is in this state,
Jersey that the L. A. w. is strongest
This state leads with 1852 members, and
Massachusetts comes second with 70l5.
wheelmen of CIearheld, Pa, have
brought about the repeal of an ordinance
compelling. the use of lamps on bicycles.
dinance was unwarranted and unconstitu-
t.onal
My wife she got the cycling fad
And leased me, night and day,
To get for her a silent steed
To while her time away.
So down went and looked around
To see what 1 could find,
And brought her home that night a bike
Which was just to her mind.
The next thing on the list were shoes,
With leggings, gray, to boot;
And finally, to cap it all,
She wants a boomer suit.
Now here draw the line right straight
And kick like any steer
And tell her she can't ride with me
Dressed in such manly gear.
If she will like a Christian dress,
And like a woman be,
III proudly ride the streets with her.
But otherwise, not me-
My wife in silence thought IT Ger,
And pondered well and long
(Her second thought is always good
And finally said; I'm wrong"
So now we take spin each night
To carry out some plan,
And when we meet an old-time friend
He knows which is the man.
Now, girls, be girls. and win the love
OF every manly man,
But do not try to steal his garb,
And merit thus his ban.
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They manage some things better in Ger
many than we do in America. Compact
stabling as it We're for cycles is shortly
10 he nrovided in ali the nrincjnaI stTaets
and squares of Berlin. What a boon it
would be to ladies if they could cycle up
to the shops and, for small fee, leave
their machines in safe custody while they
did their shopping.
George Banker, a Pittsburg cyclist, who
has been i'll in Paris, has recovered, but
viii not race again this year. He will re-
turn to this country next week.
There will be introduced in the market
shortly a remarkable device in the way of
a new bicycle seat. The characteristics
OF this latest novelty are five separate
springs, a. revolving peak and large
expanse of aluminium and cork. 1t con-
tains an aluminium base, supported on
steel springs something in the order of
the usual type of saddle Above the base
is the saddle proper, also built of alum
mum and faced with cork. Four small
springs between the upper part and the
newest feature of this two storied saddle
is the horn or peak. This consists of a
cylinder of cork mounted on ball bearings,
so as to turn easily from the friction of
either leg. This revolving peak is suppOs-
ed to take a great deal of wear off the
riders clothing and to make the saddle
The farmers of oxford county. Me- are
nearly all taking to bicycles The other
day one of them rode three miles to the
store on a wheel carrying a pail of butter
in one hand and a basket of eggs in the
other Another lashed a bag of meal to
the handle bar of his wheel and rode home
with the load, passing a neighbor who
was returning in a wagon.
Ball bearings are sometimes so con-
structed that the balls cannot be depend
ed on to find the right place of their own
accord when they are simply dropped into
them on the axle. If a rider finds that he
cannot adjust pedal or other bearing ac-
curatey, that it has a jerky, uncertain
movement, does not run smoothly and
nOiselessly, is sometimes too tight and
sometimes too loose, and especially If the
cone cannot be screwed home as far as IL
ought to be, he may. reasonably suspect
that the balls are riding on the edge of the
cone, instead of on the curved portion of
the cone. He should examine the bearings
GENTLY to determine whether this is the
case, he may take off the cone and ascer-
tain by measurement whether IL goes
home as far as it should. If1he is convinc-
ed that the balls do not naturally ind
their right place he should put the bear
cone more than is necessary to prevent
the balls from dropping out, should hold
the bearing with the cone downward and
endeayOr to shake the balls into place
the bearing being kept in the same posi-
sion while the cone is being frightened up
ed in their right position round the cone
and held there by vaseline instead Of be-
ing dropped into the cup, and the cone