The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-05

Yaquis and their ACKNOWLEDGMENT will be-
come like other Mexican Indians.-Mexi-
can Letter.
OF all the popular mistakes about BIZ
sycnng mat OF the hump or camel
back Is the most common. We are told
that the habit OF leaning forward upon
the handle-bars so as 20 get grea ter
leverage upon the pedals and to offer
less resistance to the air has ten
dency to bring about an abnormal de-
Velopment upon the back and shoulders
WHICH is called the bicycle hump
Nothing could be more absurd.
Just note the first wheelman you see
scorchi~g toward you with body well
bent over his work. AS his head is
down you will see at a distance what
appears from your point of vision to
be rounding or hump between the
shoulder blades at the back of the neck
AS he approaches this fancy will be
shown to have been but an optical il
fusion, and when you look at him from
the rear you see at once that the body
is perfectly straight. bent only at the
hips. The very forward pressure of the
mans weight upon the handle-bars has
a tendency to force the shoulder blades
squarely back. so that If it were posi-
BILE to cause a deformity it would be
necessarily that Of a hollow back
rather than that of a hump.
On the other hand, by way of con-
trast. note the man who sits bolt up
right in the saddle. AS he faces you
you are again deceived. He appears to
be erect and his shoulders square, but
as he goes by you will note, if he be an
old wheelman, that there is a decided
tendency to roundness or dropping of
the shoulders caused by his method of
obtaining leverage to work his pedals.
Being upright he cannot get sufficient
power in his weight alone when the
difficulties Of an upgrade are encoun-
tered, SO he must pull forward upon
his grips, and it is this constant down.
ward tension that sooner or later
brings about more or less slanting
of the shoulders from that square form,
the pride of every athlete.
1t is very rare that bicycling is given
up by woman after she has once ac-
quired the art of riding well. Occas-
ional preachers subject to attacks OF
vapors, may disapprove; fatuous i'd.
otto writer's, Of whom there are a few
left, may rail; now and then a presi-
dent Of some feminine organization
may shout to beat the band. but wom-
en- will not relinquish the wheel.
Some one has said that everything
worth while is of essence feminine.
Perhaps then, cycling is by nature
first adapted to the gentler sex, the
males being but second consideration.
At any rate. it would not do to venture
a dispute with any woman who might
suggest that hypothesis, for at all
events the wheel Is doing wonders to-
ward liberating woman from many OF
those dependencies and disabilities
which have hitherto made it in many
ways more convenient to lead mascu-
line than feminine life: and as man
,s, will, eb1 frHf al
fits of the 'emancipat,ns" sort, it might
not be difficult to prove that wheeling
is really doing more for the hepmeet
than for the lord and master.
Anyhow. hundreds of distinguished.
arstocratic women who are almost
morbidly delicate in deciding upon the
proper and improper. electing the pro-
prieties by methods too subtle for the
masculine sense to fully comprehend,
look down with splendid and conclusive
scorn upon all persons who claim that
feminine cycling is not a good thing.
Wherefore women will cycle needless
OF the warning of old fogies. back
numbered writer's, misanthropic min
listers. or the truculent growing OF
feminine cranks.
At Sioux Falls, S. D., plan has been
adopted for permitting cyclists to use
the sidewalks, remarkable for its SIM
plicity. 1t provides that all wheelmen
desiring to ride on the walks shall take
out a license of 81. The license GER
tificate is a tag placed on the frame
of the wheel. Wheelmen discovered on
the sidewalks without tag are liable
to arrest With the proceeds two spe-
cial policemen are hired and vested
with the duty of enforcing the ordin-
ance in respect to speed, manner of
approaching pedestrians, etc. A viola
ton of the ordinance lays the offender
liable to being deprived of his license,
besides being fined.