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Show Word for the Bicycle. Worcester lends the revival of general gen-eral use of the bicycle by furnishing most of the silent tandem wheels for the six-clay contest in New York this week. This country cannot lose Worcester. Wor-cester. Probably it knows better than to try anything like that. The bicycle has had a long rest while the multitude h:s IVen satisfying Its disposition for riding by building and riding automobiles automo-biles and motor cycles, but the manpower man-power vehicle is coming out with the next open season for nifother long and probably permanent run. It is no longer (lie plaything for the many, but the necessary means of quick local, transit for a large number who live too far away from their work to make walking economical, and who need the open-air exercise for an hour or more night and morning, even more than i hey need to economize the nickels which the trolley cars cost them. The bicycle properly used Is one of the greatest health agencies this conn I ry( can Use to advanlage by (he ml'lUnns, nnd it Is well within the expense limit of many millions of men and women, us well as the young people. Walking Is prescribed for more people than can. afford the time to take that cure. But the blcydc Is handy to economize that time and It provides tho exercise at the same time. Worcester Telegram. ' |