The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-31

scorchers, and sometimes the term is properly applied, More often, however, their conduct Is better defined by the word cautious. In the case~of reckless, daredevil riders the top head is plnched and narrow, above the ears, while that of the careful and slow-going wheelman Is wide and full at that point, signify ing good-szed cautiousness. Its exact location is where the h5ad begins to round off to form the top on a perpen- dieular line with the back of the ear, and its size can usually be estimated with little trouble. Cyclists with large caution should, and generally do, avoid crowded thoroughfal es for their own sake A ride of only three or four miles, say on the avenue or any of our busy streets, might so tax the nerves of such person through constant fear of accident as to fatigue his whole body, while he would hardly feel @ spin of flf- teen miles on a clear road For this reason any one who has cautiousness very large may expect lttie comfort on the wheel in such places. Moreover. unless he be an exception to the rule, he will spend the best part of his time looking after his own condition and that of his machine.
 'It has been said that when wheel man applies for admission to aU club the first thing to regard is the diameter of his head just above the ears, and also it's diameter about an inch and a half behind this point. Here are found de- structiveness and comhativeness. If the head is wide in these regions and shows only moderate caution and a scanty frontal development, look out for fighting and quarrelsome disposi- ton. Wheelmen of this type are never satisfied with their machines and are always contending for the impossible They favor the total abolition of street sprinklers, the annihilating of every dog in town, and always consider the rights of others subordinate to their 1 own. No motion of the club is valid unless they're present to second 1t. | Such characters will argue for hours on | the merits and den1erits of two wheels that are in every way identical, in the hope of stirring up row. To persons with these characteristics can be | traced the cause of much i'll feeling by non -wheelmen toward the cycling fra ternity Tn detecting this type the structure of the front head is of vital | importance, for destructivsness and combativeness, properly balanced and restrained, are found in the most popu- lar and expert wheelmen.
 ''The cranial structure of Zimmer- man, the worlds champion rider, re- veals both of the above mentioned or gans prominently, but his forehead is full and we'll shaped, and holds the aeins, so to say, of his marked energy and resolution. Another feature of | Zimmerman's head, which is peculiar to all expert bicyclists, is its height above destructiveness This organ is the key to his perseverance,, and is known as firmness.
 l "It gives one the tenacity of purpose necessary to accomplish difficult tasks. Few crack wheelmen can boast of a front head so we'll suited to proficiency in directing their efforts as can Zim- merman In selecting a man. for the work of expert bicycle. riding, good general health and high degree of physical development are, of course, in dispensable, but thesi. qualities without an equally well adapted brain are not sufficient. His head must be wide in | the middle and postertor section and must be spondingly high from | that point. These characteristics in sure force and stability The forehead also should be of fair height, as with l this additional equipment one will be able to discover various means and methods commonly overlooked by oth- CTS and to use them adva1itag giously. l rrriJI L ,ot "A l transgress the law of health.
 | "A freak among bicyclists is the 1 trickster and very close scrutiny is re- quined to single him out. He has all l the organs of the expert racing man but they appear in a modified form and among the organs of the back head, combativeness rules. This fac ulty makes him cool and courageous. Then to regulate his equilibrium in diff | ficult performances he possesses the or gan of weight, situated just above the two eyes and a short distance from the root of the nose. When weight is large the eyebrow is sometimes depressed by it. Weight is onasof four organs found just above the eye, and, of these, is sec ond from the nose.
 l This faculty the trick bicyclist must have; it makes him fond of the sport and gives him skill and graca in balan- cling and maneuvering his wheel. In a person who is able, for instance, to ride his machine twenty or thirty yards or a four-inch surface, the locality and size of weight ought to be apparent te I any one. It Is weight that gives com mand over the muscles in perfornlins ns any feat requiring an application of the laws of gravity, and one in whom 1t is large is said to have a fssteady head"
 Here's how to distinguish the most enviable of all the knights of the vince they who get the most real benefit out of it: The head will appear to have no special development whatever and to be smooth and symmetrical. IT width it will be proportionate to its length and heighth, and although the identical traits of the other classes are present they exert only medium strength, and are of no mere impor. tance in such a head than perhaps g dozen other organs. There is no
 enough cautiousness to cause timidity and too IBttle self-esteem and firmness for conventionality. The forehead is likely to rise gradually, and the tor
 back head will form a natural curve
 downward. Wheelmen of this clas! have what is called a harmonious head
 the power of no one organ being suff