The record-union., 1896-07-05

| through Tuolumne and StanislauS
| Counties. He visited Sonora, James
| town, Chinese Camp, Coulterville.
Knights Ferry and other towns in that
section.
Sonora and jamestown, he says, are
| enjoying quite a mining boom, and
times are prosperous there. Mr. Ingram
| is becoming a great wheelman. He has
| covered perhaps nearly three thousand
miles this year, chiefly through the
northern counties, and has Travelled
over some very rough roads-roads that
| would. paralyZe the average bltumen
| pavement scorcher-but he says the
roads he struck down in the southern
| mines are the worst he ever encOun-
| tered All along the Coulterville road
he found bicycle tourists from San
| Francisco, San Jose and other cities
mending their wheels and punctured
tires, and he gave them some good ad-
vice. The great mistake made by most
city tourists is to ride with well-infiated
| tires. This, Mr.. Ingram says, he has
found will not do where the roads are
covered with sharp stones. The hard
| tire passes over the stones with much
less danger. He astonished the city ex
perts by riding at good speed over rocky
roads where the others had to go afoot
and lead their wheels.
|
The bicycle brake question is one that
will not down. Just when there are
indications that it is dying out interest
is renewed owing to an impetus re-
| ceived from an accident, more or less
| serious. "A brake" says an old rider,
lis like a pistol. You may not need
one for lifetime, but if you do, you
need one very badly. Personally, l like
a brake ON my wheel, and l wish the
| laws demanded that a brake should be
affixed to every wheel. We are going
to have a great many accidents this
summer, and l believe that If some of
the men who are paying SO much atten-
ton to bicycle politics would give some
of their time to the agitation of sensible
regulations for riders they would be
accomplishing some genuine good. The
rights OF bicycle riders have been dis
cussed so much that the rights of pc
deStrians have been several times lost
sight of
The brake problem has apparently
been solved by E. NJ Graham of the
Golden Eagle Hotel in Sacramento. 1t
is an adaptation of the roller-brake to
foot use. Tine "Shoe" is clamped to
front forks, just over the tire, and at
tached to it is a hard-rubber roller
The latter is pressed down upon the
wheel by the toe of the rider, and when
released springs back to its place, clear
of the tire. The roller prevents chat
ing and wear of the rubber tire.
If you are a woman it is your bound
en- duty to call down blessings upon the
head of him who first made wheel
| which a woman could ride 1t was a
great day-a white day for the sex and
the race-when woman mastered the
graceful art of riding, for by the wheel
she has reached many things most de-
sirable.
From the makers and sellers of
| wheels comes the good news that the
output of wheels for women this year
J will be not only greatly in excess of any
past year, but more wheels will be
made than for men. The news is good
news, because Of its cheering signifi-
canoe. 1t means that many women will
be more in the open air and sunshine
than ever before in their lives; it means
that their fabby muscles will grow
firm and strong, their eyes bright and
quick, that their cheeks will lose their
sckly cast and will glow with life-in
short, that the thousands of women
who ride will become healthy creatures
in mind and body. And every improve
ment thus made in personal health
means a corresponding gain in public
health so that we are all better for
every wheel sold to woman
WCmankind.
Some of the newspaper editors are
recommending the cycle scorcher to
; wait till he gets out on to the country
roads before he goes to scorching. A
narrow path by country roadside is
no place for scorching. 1t is too dan
gerous for both scorcher and pedes-
trian. There's no room for the scorcher
anywhere except on the race track. Nc
: one wants him elsewhere. The scorcher
must go.
: A bicycle bang" has been invented
for those whose hair has grown limp
: and straight under the influence of the
+, heat and wind until their dearest
e friends would describe them as per
t feet frights." 1t is simply fringe oil
> hair to be pinned to the wearer's own
Growing glory and it has been sc
e treated by chemicals that it will re-
= main curled on the hottest day or even
D in fog.
4 What kind of wheel are you going
/ to get?"
q ITO tell you the truth I haven't de-
S cided; there are now over 1000 best
{ makes to choose from, and each o1
= your friends goes the other one better
r when he is telling you how much bet
ter the make he rides is than any Other
9 best make made. Life.
She-Just look, dear. I bought 20(
. papers Of tacxs for fifty cents.
: He-What in thunder did you do thai
e for? They are cheap enough, but what
0 are we to do with 200 papers of tacks
She-Why-ah-oh, Maybe some day
somebody you don't like viii get bicy-
y cle.-Indianapelis Journal.
: In summing up an interesting article
Q on the question whether bicycling is
p good for girls, the Medical Press says
a sands of girls and women are now ir
!. the enjoyment of better health, in con
sequence of bicycle riding, than they
, have ever known before in their lives
! and 50 far there is practically no direct
> or indirect evidence to show that this
! benefit has been obtained at any sacri-
. flee to their well-being.'
=
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9 three inches deep coil chain and nIacf