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Show liEALTY J,11EElS. I Saw a Girl Dismount From Her Wheel the Fictuia or Health and Grace, BEAUTIES OF WINTEE CYCLING. As a Nervine it is a Million Times Better Than Medicine-Try Medicine-Try It. An enthusiastic jJIsciplo of the wheel of Salt Lake Cify sends Tub Times the following letter iu regard to yyuug lady cyclists: " 'Hawkshaw' is the New York Correspondent Cor-respondent of the Bicycling World. His letters are generally of such a common sense nature as to form for me at least, the most interesting feature of the paper. "I append his letter which appeared last week and simply add that I know there are many Salt Lake young ladies who would gladly use the wheel if they could rid themselves of a superstitious fear of old Mother Grundy. To such as these who may chance to see theso remarks re-marks of 'Hawkshaw,' I would say: No longer hesitate in your desire to possess pos-sess and ride a weel; yon will find very much more commendation from men than condemnation from the species Grundy alluded to. Here is the letter:" "I saw a girl dismount from her wheel the other day and the picture of health and grace that young athlete exhibited I will not soon forget. Removing Re-moving her heavy gloves from a pair of hands that were by no means tiny but strong and capable bands, she gave her wheel to an attendant and passed from view, leaving upon me a lasting impression of what wheeling can do for woman. For my own part I admire not the fragile maiden so much as she who re- joices in herstrength. Youth, in woman as well as in man, should be brave and ' lusty; clean of limb as well as of heart; strong of leg and arm as well as of will, enduring hardness of voluntary labor as well as of involuntary pain; with , ' feet that can run and walk and hands that can hold on. Such a girl as the : wheelwoman I have referred to, so tall, j so strong, so healthy, offers, methinks, a home ready made for all the virtues, ,' and especially the virtues feminine, to house themselves therein. , , The able-bodied man who'will crouch down shivering in a comer of a street car in air rank and fetid from the , pack of humanity breathing therein when he has only two or three miles to go, deserves to be assailed by the demons de-mons of inlluenza, neuralgia, coughs, colds and headaches that lurk therein. Even a ride in a carriage robs the trip . of half its benefits. The air ie good, to be sure, but the exercise is lacking and its resulting benefits to the blood and the muscular and nervous system. Winter cycling, wnenever the roads permit, is a cure for cold feet. It ban-isnes ban-isnes the "creep-crawls" from the spinal column and sends the sluggish blood about its business. As a "nervine" "ner-vine" it is a million times better than medicine, and for improving the complexion com-plexion it is worth a whole harbor full of lotions and washes. It will put an edge to the appetite that you can't buy at the doctor's, and in promoting digestion diges-tion is better than a corner drug store's entire stock of bitters and pills. Keep your mouth closed, dress only in woolen garmeuts, don't lean over like a grasshopper grass-hopper in a fit, givo your lungs a chance to expand, and remember that your legs especially your ankles were given you to ride with, at least that is what wheelmen should use them for when cycling. Some people ride with bodies, shoulders shoul-ders and arms and no wonder they don't like it. Who would There is an art in riding as in other things If you don't believe it observe tho action of some one who knows how to rule well, and see how easily and even safely the roughest bit of road is negotiated by him. |