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Show CYCLING FOR WOMEN. It ! I-rrnhlr lmlorail by Hlch Mcdloal Authority. In an article In tho Nineteenth Century Cen-tury entitled "A Medical View of Cycling Cy-cling for Ladles," the author, Dr. W. H. Fenton, Indorses tho exercise, asserting as-serting that It has done more to improve im-prove tho health of women than almost anything that has over been invented. "Let it nt onco bo said, an orgnnlcnl-ly orgnnlcnl-ly sound woman can cycle with as much impunity as a man. Thank heaven, wo know now that this is not one moro of the sexual problems of tho day. Sex has nothing to do with it beyond the adaptation of machine to dress nnd dress to machine. Women nro capable of great physical improvement improve-ment whoro the opportunity exists. Dress even now heavily handicaps them. How fatiguing and dangerous wore heavy pottlcoats and flowing skirts In cycling oven a few years ago tho plucky pioneers alono can toll us. "Inapproprlato dress has a certain number of chills to account for. When fair practlco has been mado and tho 'hot stage, so to speak, Is over, tho feet, ankles, neck and arms got very cold when working up ngnlnst wind. Gaiters or Bpats, high collars and close-fitting close-fitting Bleoves meet this difficulty. Summer or winter, it is far safer to wear warm absorbent underclothing and avoid cotton. "Tho diseases of women tako a front place In our social llfo; but, if looked into, 90 per cent of them nro functional ailments, begotten of ennu( and lack of opportunity of somo means of working oft their superfluous muscular, nervous nnd organic energy. The effect of cycling cy-cling within tho physical capacity of a woman acts llko a charm for gout, rheumatism and Indigestion. Sleeplessness, Sleepless-ness, eo-called 'nerves,' and all thos petty miseries for which tho liver Is bo often mado tho scapegoat, disappear in Uio most extraordinary way." |