Show GOSSIP FOR CYCLISTS A few years ago King Humbert of Italy refused to admit the dowager duchess of Aosta to the Italian court unless she would give up cycling to which she strongly objected Now I both King Humbert and his wife are ardent cyclists and have lately offered a cup to be competed for every year by the members of the Italian clubs The princess of Naples is a clever wheelwoman and a beautifully gotup wheel was one of her wedding presents f > VJ > < f The Chinese have taken up cycling very enthusiastically though only 18 months ago there was hardly a wheel to be seen in China Chinese bicycles are rather gaudily painted and their riders curl up their pigtails on top of their heads to have them safely out of the way I is said that the Celestials are beginning to manufacture their own wheels < 00 The laws about wheelmen and women wom-en are much more strict on the conti cont nent of Europe than in this country or England In France the cyclist is constantly con-stantly getting tangled up in red tape and in Vienna no one is allowed to ride a wheel In the streets unless he or she has passed an examination Vienna nevertheless has 20000 cyclists S > i < S > Not long ago i was reported that the archbishop of Paris had forbidden his priests to ride the bicycle It is now stated that the prohibition applied ap-plied only to those who rode in their cassocks who are quite at liberty to ride if they do so in their mufti Many Parisian priests avail themselves of this permission I I A new cycling skirt < is shown in Paris which is said to look smart not I only on the wheel but off i I has two distinct skirts one for each leg I very much gored In belllike shape and forming a beautifully hanging garment II gar-ment when the wearer walks which is much more than can be said for the I ordinary rational skirt The newest cycling frocks have the fashionable bolero bo-lero jackets made doublebreasted for winter wear and with large collars and reveres There are hints of new and fascinating costumes for the spring one of which has been invented by Princess Charles of Denmark < < s > < Alarmist articles have lately appeared ap-peared on the hidden dangers of cycling cy-cling and a physician named Shadwell has invented the term bicycle face to express the appearance supposed to I be presented by cyclists Dr Shadwell says he expects to encounter criticism and opposition and it seems that he I has already met with both A cycle enthusiast declares that there Is no great cause for alarm as to the new I I nervous disease but far more for the spread of cyclophobia which periodically period-ically attacks certain piembers of the I medical profession |