Show THE CYCLING GIRL The hammock ghl is out of date The carriage girl passe The < irl who rides the bicycle Rules all the world today She flashes by with graceful speed As f she rode on ar And as she glides along she finds Admirers everywhere Let Bishop Doane and Bishop Coxe Abuso her as they may The cycle girl is here brand ncw And she Is her to stay She doesnt care how much they fuss For she knows sites all right And even as they grumble they Must own shes out of sight So heres to the sweet cycle girl In bloomers or in skirts Shes worth a dozen of the girl That lounges rcund and hints And heres a wish for Bishop Coxe Arailing on the fense That he may live and grow in grace And some cay have more sense Somerville Journal We have seen her at the dog show Likewise warbling on the stage Where before the twinkling footlights Her acts are all the rage But now at the academy We watch the daily spiel I Of airy Fairy Lilian Cavorting on a wheel She vetoes knickerbockers And skirts bifurcated too And tis said thr festive Moomers Shes determined to eschew For doublebarreled petticoats With trimmings of chenille Would never do for Lillian Cavorting on her wheel She never weakly wabbles As beginners ofttimes doNor do-Nor has a fit of frantics If the front wheel goes askew But In calm and gracious majesty While others rocs and reel Sits airy Fairy Lillian Cavorting on her wheel New York Evening Sun |