The Monitor-register., 1896-12-11

sex: "Girls, all of you who are young
and under fifty, I say ride wheel.
There is no better exercise from which
YOU can derive 30 much pleasure, gain
such needed strength and learn such
lessons In self control and self confidence.
Bicycling for women has come to stay.
Fashionable women everywhere have
learned to ride we'll, swiftly, gracefully,
athletically. But riding a machine not
properly adjusted is about the worst
thing one can do.' The editor then goes
on to say how the machine should be
adjusted for ease and comfort; how the
mount, and to what extent she can
indulge in the exercise without harm.
With the laws of the road every wheel
man is familiar. They have rights which
some cyclists exercise unreasonably. If
all were like the rider, whose letter to the
Bulletin I give in part, there would be
much less hard feeling between teamsters
and wheelmen. 1--WE often hear com.
plaints," he says, "from riders about the
road hog In my experience I find
more riders deserve the name than those
who drive horses. If man does not
turn out for me I am certainly not going
to be fool and let him run me down
when l can turn out and let him pass.
Because one man disregards the law of
the land is no reason why should disre.
gard all laws of common sense"
With the increase of membership of
the League of American Wheelmen the
cry for good roads is growing louder and
louder, and the need of smooth. hard
highways is now being agitated all over
the country. Our neighbor, the Salem
Standard, said only last week that the
good roads movement in this county is
but a question of time. So we see the
farmers right at home are becoming inter-
ested, not for the wheelmer, but for their
own convenience and financial interest.
| Hear what this farmer has TO say. He
don't live in New Jersey, but it applies
to his kind everywhere. "When l look
back forty. five years." he says, "and see
myself walking five miles across the
country to attend little Notification,
because the horses had to work every
day, wonder how we stood it. Even
careless observer can see what our high
ways are likely to be in ten or fifteen years
from this time. The quiet and resistless
influence of the wheel is surely increasing
the value of farm land by causing great
improvement in roads as well az forming
intercourse between families, thereby
affording a healthy and .pleasurabIe ex..
oi tement which will go far towards max
ing thousands of young men and women
more content withstha lonely country
life which has sent SO many to our cities
to their f1al disadvantage.
l. If cyclerss want good roads-and we
know they do, in their long runs to
Il neighboring towns and cities-they
should help pay the cost. Impose tax
on every bicycle Belonging in the district,
add this revenue to the usual road tax,
and instead Of s.inendingD the roads,
organize a system Of road improvement.
Elect for road oyerseers progressive, wide
awake men-wheelmen, if you please, as
'Iwell as farmers-then will sooner dawn
i the age Of good roads for Salem county.
!. Thensyill rural homes be made easily
accessible and the highways snofh " af
Loneliness BY their attractive appearance
and increase of public travel by wheel
i and horse. s - 49,
II Reader, if yon are not yet In the race,
buy Wheel II you don't wShssto ride
for health, ride for pleasure. Buy .
wheel. and buy it now Don't walt for q
fan Of prices in first class bicycles, for
the fall will be slight. The most percep-
Etible falling will be from your new mount
n while learning to ride. We have here .
Igood make and also dealers who will sell
what you want and make q fit On
poorly adjusted wheel you will ride with
little ease and less grace. Make cycling
a study; read between runs, and by stu
dious, careful practice so educate your
self in the fascinating xft as to realize
that skillful cycling is inded a science
land you are its master. 70 attain such
kexcellence also aspire.
: 9 "a 6onclusion, let me say that the CON-
3etdbutions OF this article so late in the
u sesson. and by one having 80 little expert
lience in the art of wheeling, will snatur-
u ally provoke some criticism; but if the
I.writer has impaired a single thought or
.tBugQ estion to the mind of any one who
feels profited by the pernsals any mission
has been fulfilled, my labor rewarded.
B. B.