Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-02
COMMON SENSE FOR N
BOYS AND GIRLS
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Of your boy and girl before turning
them loose unchaperoned. If they
have been trained as they should have
been they will be guilty of no mis-.
take-but both should have had prac-
tically the same sort of training be-
fore they are granted full liberty.
The rule that applies to cycling APP
plies to boating, to fishing, to walking,
to riding, to driving. If signs 60 for
anything, however, there will probably
be more wheeling during the coming
season than any other of the sports
I have named. The bicycle is not
what it was once-a machine that
had to be cleaned and oiled the mo-
ment it was brought in from an out.
ing. The new chainless does away
with this nuisance: The coaster
brake, the possibilities of two speed
gear give charms to the wheel that
it never possessed before It is sea-
son when it is necessary to decide.
what rules we shall lay down for our
young people when they go bicycling.
Once upon time 1t might have
seemed needless but We are entering
upon different order of things. =
Even the best bred boys and girls
will occasionally give way to the an
imal spirits aforesaid and make fools
of. themselves. That is, they will
have "a tendency to do this, And for
that reason It is good thing for their
parents to send them out equipped
with a; sufficient store of good advice.
Often it is mere. thoughtlessness that
makes young people ride along coun-
try roads yelling like Comanches and
disturbing the peace of quiet, folk.
Sometimes they seem to lay aside
their manners when they put on their
cycling toys. On this account it is Of
ten more desirable to have chaper-
one when there is large party than
when there are only few on the ex-
pedition. A racket of, any sort is con-
tagious and where two or three peo-
pie would not think Of waking the
echoes with their shrieks of innocent
glee, a dozen or so would be pretty
sure to raise rumpus. 4
There are other conditions in which
chaperone is advisable One is
when the excursion is to be extended
and return made late in the day.
If the party means to stop for night
anywhere, a chaperone is indispensa-
BILE. 1t may be jolly young married
woman or a girl of the older set who
is the sister of one of the younger
, members of the band. In any case
she will lend dignity to the company.
Even ifaa meal is to- be taken at q
hotel or inn tits well to have an order
person along. Y
Once it would have. been hard to
find a woman of even comparatively
mature years who would be called up
on to chaperone wheeling party.
But we have changed all that The
improvements in modern science are
bringing things to such a pass that
soon there will be no.old people They
will all of them be always young.
Keeping in step with this advance is
modern invention, making exercise
not only easy, but delight. The vi.
sions that the old men saw and the
dreams that the young men dreamed
in Bible times will be matched by the
realities that will be achieved by the
young, middle aged and even elderly
women who have the physical training
that keeps them in order supplement
ed by the means that render out dool
excursions a joy ~.