The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-14
HEAVENLY TWINS OF WHEELS.
Women Riders, Their Attractive Costumes
and High Speed.

Everybody who rides q bicycle in Brooklyn
knows the Heavenly Twins. They are the
most conspicuously dressed women bicycle
riders seen In Prospect Park or on ths bicycle
path To Coney Island. They are Nobably the
most loyal devotses Of the wheel among !hs
women Of Brooklyn. Whenever there Is the
slightest. chance for making a dash TO the
Island the Heavenly Twins may be- seen
streaking down the pathway. They always
attract attention. but they mover seem TO
notice IL, and although their dress Is more
PARTISAN than any other seen on the road their
conduct Is always modest and dignihed.
The name Heavenly Twins has been given
70 these two young women because they dress
just alike and arc invariably seen together.
What their real names are no one among the
mother and daughter. and others that they
are sisters with q stretch OF years between
them. Generaly they are accompanied by a
man, who dresses as nearly like them as
possible, and Is without doubt the father Of
Ihe younger woman. All are expert riders.
ride d~ivinely. and a young woman in a group
who were DISCUSSING the Partisan appearance
Of the riders one dav, applied to them the
spreading rapidly. and when one rider Joins
another. although they may be strangers to
each other, and asks IL he has seen the Heav-
understood usually without further ~explana-
tion.
The Heavenly Twins wear black derby hats.
UNDERSTANDING collars and shirt fronts. dark
blus sack coats, and trousers that Mt more
tightly than a mans trousers. They wear
stout walking shoes OF ordinary cur and
brown golf stockings with pronounced bug
tops. They do not use ~leeeinps or other de-
vices to prevent a display OF the calf. Nature
has been generous with them. and they prob
ably think that "a tight covering TO the leg.
that reveals its outlines and gives 1t an APP
pearance OF being padded, Is an evidence OF
mock modesty. Their tightly fitting trousers,
their derby hats. with the hair tucked mp
under the crowns, the buff tops of their
stockings, and their complete mastery OF the
wheel serve to draw attention TO these riders
the minute they appear on the highway:
They can be seen n great distance of, and
men, women and children watch them 'gener-
ally until they are out OF sight. They usually
wear boutonnieres, and these. too, are OF a
color that may be- seen at some distance In
the fall the boutonnieres were tremendous
yellow chrysanthemums. Lately the twins
have taken to roses.
The twins never neglect 10 go to Coney
Island at least once on every clear day.
Sometimes they go twice a day In that case.
usually in the summer time, they make their
first "trip early In the morning, often before Z
o'clock. They arc fast riders and keep just
has been tired out trying 10 keep up with
them. One OF the twins was seen late in
January going toward Coney Island with her
escort, and n man who Is one OF the regulars
with them. IL took some work to keep the
pace. hut the regular kept close behind. He
was n little winded and was thinking that ho
wasn't such an inferior rider after all, when.
whiski something dashed past him. IL was
the other win. She soon caught up with the
others. and the three went dashing OF TO the
Island at the pace of the twin who had just
come up. She had dropped behind for some
along at a slow pace until the belated ons
could catch up. Then the regular. who
thought he had heen keeping mp with their
usual gait, found out his mistake I Sun.