| Show GOODWINS TIT POE TAT It le seEms the little Marshal P 1 Wilder mode made n a biG Eng hit by telling n a story atory that ran like thief Oh yu yes that reminds me the tho night before I 1 left lett Nosy New York I went to my phone and ond rang rong up central Tinga ling What number tho n house bar Hello a Is that the tho hoffman Hortman bar H Yes Yea U Is Mr Nat Goodwin there I Yes N very ory strange Good by ThIs little talc talo excIted the irh to the paint of oC hys hysterical h 11 I I a r rIt rity It ity and Mar tar e shall ne never r fail failed failed ed to score with It especially t f tN N Nat n t Goodwin were Ono one of oC tho ho party The Tho humor ot of the tho rather polled palled tor ono one evening turn os as n a ra raconteur contour precede e C d Marshalls and our flam buoyant haired comedian tol told l n a little him story I Mr Ir t self All Ah Yes that remInds me The night before lafore I loft left New york tork I called up o on tho telephone and naked for the tho House bar Is that the Hoffman House bar barI I Yes 4 Is Marshall P I Wilder there thero Is Yea Yos YosU I IJ U ho buying anythInG II I IY Y s 4 very ery strange And the boys bOs soy say that Marshall rang ort oft that te telephone ephone story so quickly It would make your our head hend snap nap StINTS I VOlt Ot Wheel men In agree that the feeling ot of exhaustion nt at the end ot of n a arun run Is oftener due to the Improper nd ad or of the tho wheel than to the die lance covered Saddles tilted nt at im improper proper angles ongles and handle bars poorly adjusted force torce cyclists to assume bodily posItions that make c cycling a disc om tort orl And the n a sight The expert rider who Is able to mend a tire or 1 a loosened port part knows ho hoto how to arrange his wheel for tor comfort but this sort sorl ot of rIder Is not in III th the majority Th conformation und and adjustment or of orthe the bars ars on n a bicycle would seem seem to be n a detail on whIch popular ideas are hopelessly confused d In de determining determining the position ot of the tho handles practical consideration has to be given ghen to the physical necessities s of the rider The Tho object should be to place Ince the han handIes lies dIes where the they may bo be most corn com comfortably reached and advantageously employed d not on only In the tho guIdance of oC the wheel but also for tor counteracting pedal pr pressure when this Is sUfficiently severe severo to lift a rider out ot of the saddle In order that the handles may bo be vell within reach experts agree that the they be brought back so EO that the knees when raised overlap them corn com The bats bars themselves should nol no be fixed horizontally but should hould have hac a 11 perceptible drop toward their extremities Otherwise any pressure put upon thorn thom Is borne chiefly by the CliPS caps at the ends and becomes painful to the hands In a long rIde Another Important consideration Is that the handles bandies themselves should not be set parallel to the wheel but the tho ends should be turned outward to some somo extent The ridiculous convolutions given to some ot of the raised handle handlo bars are arc unnecessary and force torce the leisurely rider to assume os as unsightly a positron position as the scorcher It often otten happens that the handles lire are not brought back near enough to the rider on the assertion that they will interfere with the legs In turning sharp corners hut ut the objection lion tion Is readily obviated It if the handle handlebar handlebar bar Is bf be the proper width Mishaps to riders are frequent from the Improper a adjustment ot of the handle bars and sad pad tile lie and a 11 disregard of oC the necessity for tor Inspection of oC a wheel at frequent Intervals |
