The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-06
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M.M. TURDOCK. EdItor.
The Woman Who straddIes the Wheel.

The Woman Who StraddleS the wheel.
There are woman writer's hold that the most sug-
gestvey vulgar thing which the modern woman is adj
dcted average girl loses more or less
of eeninate the practice Of athletics there Is
little question What gains in stamina is lost to her
gracefuness all the athletic fads Of the wheel
is the most to femninity. The wheel
hardens the face tends to hxidy Of features.
nattens the breast shoulders dus innate mod
esty and in general terms tends to mascuinty. The
bicycle has probably stay but there is stamp OF
man who will never reconciled to its Imbabor. to its
inevitable lmbghts and its suggestive stradde This
stamp Of man will probably with the present genera
zion while the coming man. having been impressed
with the grace Of sx-foot riding habit or the artistic
beauty of the folds skirt train win never know
what he has lost except undehnable way as he con-
templates an old-time statue or dreams
naming Of the past That which hardens woman, how
ever innocent ITSELF tends to minimize her attractive
ness may by the labor Of the mine or by inur
ing herself to outdoor life of acquire mans
hard and angular but for her that attracvenes
which sways holds the will be forever lost
The and the bicycle woman cannot be made
herones of this generation whatever may
be standard of the coming automobile age Probably
no girl who rides wheel will agree with this
mothers Of Of them. nor the stockholders
in trust but it is nevertheless but the solemn
conviction Of good many men too old to ride bicycle
DR.. ArabeIa Kenealey woman of London fame hav-
ing lately written paper woman astride the
wheel for Westminster Review, which paper was re-
printed Iders Living Age caustic pens are being
turned upon her. not to be bured by either
scientific or moral writer's In late issue
Of the London Telegraph appears rerejonder from her
pen of which the following paragraphs excerpts which
we reproduce for the edfcaton readers Of
the Eagle as are in clned to give woman fair hearing
DR.. Kenealey goes to
"As the schooboy cannot cake and yet have it.
neither can the expend twothrds of her
muscles and yet have than third left
for other If set habit Of expend-
ing twohrds Of her nereforces her muscles these
unduly greedy and encrOach still more
upon producing the restlessness
SO distressing herself and ali about her which is
spreading alarmingly among our modern women
is quite possible for emotions undrected by brain
by wholesome exercise to degenerate into
which overrun and sap the nature This the
condition the have read about-the woman
before day made a habit of fainting when her
canary died. Who because had proved him.
self unworthy wept herself into early Her emo
devolved But my part
that felt and suered-to have been
than is she who to the other
treme who developed her muscular until it has
become species OF steam roller. which overrdes and
trampes more delicate sympathes
bies For 1t is better cannot help thinking, to
a nature by which merely sickly
fashion than it is to nature which produces
flowers at all
ct have known charming good women. I have known
charming bad have known enchart-
ing and delightful the
of somewhat varied experience have known any
who after years athletics any pre-
tension whatsoever charm The main characteristic
athletic is that they alike The more COM
pick the character the varied developments
the athletic woman In reverting the merely primitive
type (or the primitive facuIties
delcacy individuality spontaneity impressionaby-
word, loses temperament which is naturally woman's
most delightful attribute.
"The athletic woman (and by the term mean woman
accustomed to strong but not necessarily extreme exercs
through the human epoch of lovemakng marriage
and motherhood with the astonishing nsensibty You
her her bridal trip with scarcely trace Of emotion
bearing her on her bed Of mother
hood unumined by that which is the
submest light atainabe by womanly beauty For has It
not been her aim, and has her goal in
Etate being which is described hard as nas?"
She has lost her capacity ideazng and for idol
zng those capacities upon her when It
made OF the hoyden For nature intended her to
deaze her chldrens father in order that children
might be-in her conception-the children hero On
other hand gorifes poorest ne For no lux
uriousness Of wealth artcaty devised joys
which compare any way simple joys Of
the emotions"
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