The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04

breath may be controlled without ef-
fort and without injury. BY all means
avoid the sudden expulsion Of breath
when reaching the top of the hill; avoid
it at all times. as it causes too great and
too sudden diiation OF the heart
When the hill is SO steep that you
cannot ascend without breathing
through the mouth. ycu would tetter
dismount and push your wheel up. You
will do it if you have any regard for
your heart and if you are bicycling for
health
Moderat tion in Bicycling.
That which is moderation with one
may be beyond the power OF endurance
with another. Therefore. il cannot be
expressed by any specified number Of
miles. There are two rules to be OBJ
served; viz. first. do not ride until you
are fatigued always rest before you
are tired) second, do not ride so far
that the last mile robs you of any of the
pleasure Of the preceding ones.
If at the end of every five. eight or ten
miles. as the case may be. you would dis
mount for about two minutes mot more)
in order to change your position and al
low the muscles to relax. you would be
able TO ride 30, 40 or more miles and
know neither fatigue nor exhaustion.
celebrate every birthday anniver-
sary by riding as many miles Ton my
wheeD as am years old. In doing this
| make no long stops. nor do l eat any
breakfast or luncheon or anything un-
Ill the ride is finished. the wheel cleaned.
the bath taken and the muscles relaxed.
| merely mention this to show my many
readers that follow out the principles
laid down in my first article-Practice
Versus Theory.
A man may sit in his Office and write
never so glibly for the newspapers and
magazines on hygiene and physical ed
ucation. and at the same time violate
every known law OF hygiene and take
no other exercise than that involved
in the pushing Of his pen.
Reducing Ones Weight.
The wheel is often resorted to for this
purpose, and II is almost as often a die
appointment, because the rider does not
ride sufficiently far nor sufficiently fast
to produce the desired results. 1t will
frequently increase ones weight while
1t reduces ones girth. | have in mind
a man who weighed 4OS pounds when
he began riding. but at the end of few
weeks he weighed $40 pounds. He rode
slowly and on paved streets, only
There was not enough exertion to offset
the increase in appetite: yet he was less
by the substitution of
muscle tissue for the adipose tissue that |
be burned out
In my own case. weighed 1876 pounds
ghen began riding. and |. too, at first
gained in weight, although (paradoxical
rs 1t may SEEM fell off 1856
pounds the first day. My average weight
IS now 1s0.
Benefits of Bicycling.
The bicycle properly used. not |
Ibused). is veritable God-send for the
weak, frail. delicate person, man or
especially for woman
There exists an organization OF we'll
meaning women that, am sorry TO say,
consider the bicycle nothing more or
ess than the DEVILS advance agent.
This may be true. but only so far as it af-
ects those women upon whom the devil
lready has a mortgage, and merely
mploys the wheel as a subterfuge to
oreclose the claim.
Bicycling should be classed among
be most healthful of exercises. It ex-
ands the lungs. clears the nasal pas
ages. gives new life-force to the brain.
uickens the pulse, strengthens the
cart, purifes the blood, causes the liver
lose its torpidity. dyspepsia 10 take
s flight. and headaches to vanish as
uickly as doth the dew before the morn
lg sun.
Think OF IT. when a man is at rest
e consumes but 500 cubic inches of air
minute; but when be rides a bicycle
inc miles an hour. that increases
1.600 cubic inches a minute; at
miles an hour It leaps to 1900 !
ibic inches a minute; at is miles
4 hour the rider increases his air ,
assumption to 1000 cubic inches a
mute. That is a consumption for ,
hich 1t is worth striving. and such !
the reward when bicycling for !
salth.