The evening bulletin., 1896-07-25
THE WHEEL AND HAPPINESS.

THE WHEEL AND HAPPINESS.
II Solomon could see the revolutionizel
OF the age, the bicycle, with all the
attendant innovations it has brought
with it, he would no doubt be willing to
admit that there is something new under
the sun. First OF all there is the so.
called "new woman" The housewife
OF to-day need not degenerate into a
mere carpet-sweeping, dish-washing au.
tomaton.
She need not view the world through
the narrow kitchen window OF her mind,
but may look out of the wide and sun
shiny observatory OF her soul. She used
to sit on her front stoop, betimes, and
watch tired world creep by. But she,
herself, was too weary to enjoy seeing
anything. She had followed one simple
round OF duty so long and faithfully, and
thought within one narrow groove so
constantly, that hel feet attempted no
journeys into the world of fact nor her
mind any flights into the realm OF fancy.
Like lark with broken wing she was
prisoned in her circumscribed cage of
being, and her song OF youth and hope
was but sorry memory. She had ceased
to soar into the hope-giving, health
bringing sunshine of physical and in
tellectual freedom.
1t is said that Darwin, the greatest
scientific investigator the world has yet
produced, in his later years lost all his
taste for art, music, poetry and higher
literature. A slave to one idea.
1t is we'll understood fact that if
man uses one arm and carries the other
in a sling, the unused arm will soon
become paralyized. We bungle with the
left hand because We are taught to use
the right.
Every part of the mind and body re-
quires exercise to keep it in its normal
condition. Play the sweet keys if you'd
keep them in tune, An unused room
becomes full Of dust and cobwebs. An
unused muscle grows to be weak and
useless. An unused faculty OF the mind
grows rusty and unresponsive.
Persons who devote themselves exclu-
sively to one line OF work, physical or
mental, without recreation or diversion
OF any kind, are likely to become narrow
fractions OF men. Men stop growing in
mind or body because they think or do
the same things over and over every day.
The monotony and one-idea-only pur-
pose OF life is detrimental to the race.
We lack perfectly formed and WELL
rounded characters. We have lacked a
generalizing force. We have been shut
ting our eyes to the world of thought
that would broaden the mind, and neg
lecting the exercise thati develops the
body.
To ride soft, easy-going cushion. seate
carriage is not exercise. 1t tends towards |
rather than the higher de-
OF man. Enough of such ease
and lassitude and one would become as
Indifferent to strength and beauty as a
barnacle on South Sea Island rock,
willing to let the tides forever creep over
him and the southern suns steep him in
infinite calms OF laziness.
But there is something new under the
sun. The bicycle is here, and with it has
come not only new woman but also a
new man, and with them will come a
newer, broader thought, and a firmer,
stronger physical nature.
The proper and sensible use OF the BIZ
cycle develops every muscle of the body.
1t is a gentle, gracious gymnasium. 1t is
health-giving medicine OF the pleasantest
sort PIT up in the joyous laboratories OF !