The record-union., 1896-06-28

| Wheelmen know only too we'll how
| handy this garment is when they are
warm and perspiring, and yet fearful
| OF the consequences attendant on lolllng
| in some cool spot. There is too much
| danger of illness, and considerable of
| it could be avoided by following this
| simple suggestion.
| Many riders think that the appear
ance of a wheel is improved by not
having a tool bag on it, and so make
practice of going out with their ma
chimes Stripped as far as possible,
trusting to luck to help them out in case
! they have need of a wrench, pump or
| a repair kit. That may do we'll enough
when riding in or near the city, where
other riders are likely to be met with
| or repair shops found without a long
journey. Apparently, they never stop
to reflect that it is imposing on the
| good nature of another rider when they
deliberately hail him and ask him to
| dlSmount and allow them to use his
wrench for a moment. The rider who
would not comply would be set down
as a mean, surly fellow, and perhaps
| not one in a thousand would refuse.
AT the same time, it is a piece Of as
surance bordering on impudence for one
rider to make such a request of an
other. The wise thing is for all riders,
both men and women, to go out on the
wheel fully equipped for any emergen-
cies that are likely to arise.
| In the cycling, as in the Individual
ity of a mans work, or handwriting. do
| peculiar characteristics manifest them
selves AT every cycle meet, where am
ateur riders centered, is this fact ap-
parent, and the youthful ''speeders'' do
| literally hump themselves in a man
ner which, to the experienced eye and
the hygienic mind, are at once humor-
Gus and deplorable. An example of in
correct positions on the wheel is that
of young Underhill of Columbia Col
lege. At Manhattan Beach the camera
caught him seemingly wasting needed
energy in the attempt to jam the front
bar and fork through to China, and fol-
low 1t headlong into the land of tea
and tom-toms.
The man in the bicycle suit laughed
heartily
| Very funny" he said
d
| section of skin gone from his nose
| Why, these 'Don'ts' for bicyclists."
remarked the man in, the bicycle suit
| Let's see them,'' said the man who
was short of skin.
The man in the bicycle suit handed
him the paper.
The best one isn't there" said tho
man with the fantastic nose. shortly
IT it was the rest wouldn't be neces-
sary"
What do you consider the best one ?"
asked the man with the bicycle suit.
Don't ride" answered the man whose
nose stood in need of grating. and then
he carefully put a large piece of court
plaster where it would do the most
good. 8,
The scorcher is doomed. From all
points of the compass come renorts
where municipal authorities have taken
It unto themselves to suppress this in
dlVldual In most cities the speed at
which the cyclist is permitted to fly over
the payements is eight miles an hour.
and this should be sufficient. The reck
less manner with which the low handle
bar "fend" disports himself is altogeth-
~ INNING Teople nave been
manned for life by failing to escape the
Juggernaut Of the scorcher, but his end
IS near. 1t is very we'll for a rider to
speed at any gait over the deserted
country roads, but when he brings this
practice into crowded thoroughfare
OF big city it is time that he was
| suppressed.
A lady living in the upper part of
New York wanted cook who would
go home at night and put an advertise
ment in the paper setting forth her
needs. Among the applicants was a.
negro woman of huge proportions. The
lady looked at the negress and
thought Of her little Kitchen She did
not want to state the real reason. for
fear of giving offense, so she said I'm
| afraid that you would not get here in
time in the morning, you live SO far
down town" Don't you fear about
that, honey said the negress; .sit won't
take me no time to come up on nv
bike" The lady now regrets that she
did not ask this wheelwosnan whether
she wore boomers or knickerbockers.
The latest device for the production
of rubber tires, for which an American
patent has been secured. is officially de-
scribed as "a protective covering for
pneumatic tires consisting of padding
over the tire, a circumferential SPRING
metal band lying upon said padding,
and a flexible metallic cloth fitted over
and surrounding said band and said
padding and adapted to be attached
to the rim of the wheel
The doctors are still busy discovering
new bicycle diseases There is the BIZ
cycle throat. and bicycle eye.- and the
nose, spine, arm. foot lungs, liver. heart
and possibly the cyclists vermiform ap-
pendix. AS a matter of fact, however,
the thing that is worrying the doctors is
the general prevalence of bicycle health.
H0ax-There. was a fellow in court to-
day charged with stealing a horse and
leaving his bicycle in place OF it.
Joax-what did they do? Convict
him?
Hoax-No; the jury We're all cyclers
and they recommended that the prison
er be sent to an insane asylum.-Phila-
delphia Record.
; A minister of the gospel, active. in
temperance work, said at a public
meeting that the bicycle had done more
for the cause of sobriety than all the