The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-05-05

Count TINT day lost whose low descending sun
Hath not beheld at least tcn-mile run.
For my part. I've learned one thing
this winter" said an athletic girl in a
short skirt and n red sweater. 1--WE
ing. It's impossible for me to do
both"
"rhe same here put In three other
girls
what ON earth has bicycling got to
do with dancingYa queried the bru-
nctte. You dance In winter; you
wheel In summer. Why they should
interfere with one another | can't see.
OF course. | didn't learn to ride until
last fall. and"
"That's the very reason you don't un
dcrstand why we must stop dancing"
Interrupted the athletic girl. You
see, we've developed the bicycle leg"
"The bicycle leg" repeated the brp.
ncttc, aghast "What is It? I've heard
the bicycle brain and the bicycle voice,
but the bicycle leg is new to me. Tell
| us about It,
we've got it, put In three others.
And you'll get II II you ride much, "
said the athletic girl with II malicious
laugh. at attacks women rider5tR
| great deal oftener than it does wheel.
men, she continued, probably be.
cause their muscles are more yulner,
able than those of man. | never
rode much until last summer. and
didn't notice that my legs had been af-
fccted by II AT all until the dancing
season opened. The muscles of my
legs seemed TO remain stiff all the
evening the first dance | attended,
and was really uneasy, for thought
I'd contracted rheumatism. My legs
wouldn't act light, and | couldn't ma
nlpulate my feet or make them go.
My partners glnred at me, and none
of them came forward for Il second
turn, SO | pleaded n headache and
went home. ! was puzzled, but |
didn't say anything to anybody, for I'd
always had the reputation of being a
fine dancer 1t was the same thing at
the next dance, and the next and the
next, and at last IL dawned upon me
that | had the bicycle leg"
Il had the very same experience"
testified another enthusiast. ~, too,
used to be considered n pretty good
dancer, but since I've been riding bi.
cycle I'm no longer n desirable part.
ncr"
why how does wheeling affect the
legs so as to make IL impossible TO
dancei" asked n novice.
well, 1t seems we have two sets OF
muscles In our legs" explained the
athletic girl. "One we use in all kinds
Of graceful exercise such as dancing
and Delsarte movements, and the 9th
crs are used for work. Pushing the
pedals develops these working mus
cles, and the others are overcome, and
when you attempt to do the graceful
act you are about as graceful MS u
COW would be. The preachers who op.
| pose dancing would find good argu.
ment In favor of the wheel as Il moral
| agency right along this line. Dancing
| is unquestionably n form of disslpa.
ton; If bicycling does away with that
pastime, IL will certainly do more than
moralists have ever been able to ac-
complish and | believe in time that it
Will. If whcelwomcn find out that
they have to give up one or the other.
predict the abandonment of dane
ing"
And | predict the abandonment of
the wheel" put In n man who came up
in time TO hear the last remark.
wheeling is a fad with women.
They won't stick to 1t. especially il II
interferes with their dancing. In an.
other twelve months they will have
forgotten that they ever rode a blcy.