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Show B BICYCLE RIDING. B Newspaper reports have it that the bicycle is to be- B come popular again this year. Perhaps so, although the B hills up which you have to push are just as high as ever, B the roads just as hot and sunny. B The young man of 20 years ago who owned bicycles B have now in a great measure bought automobiles. Their B sons, if the same athletic type, have probably bought B motorcycles. The boys never expend more leg muscle B than is necessary to accomplish their ends. While the B motorcycle racks the old lady's nerves and keeps the whole B country side clamorous, the youngsters enjoy the pleas- B .urable racket. B One well remembers the pages of bicycle advertising B the magazines once carried. They set forth how weak B and invalid indoor workers could recover health on the B fascinating wheel. It made cquntry life possible, as the Bj office man and the workers could live in the suburbs and B Tvlieel in to work. Nothing was said about dust, rain, or B winter weather. Men of every slender physical ability H -would take their 50-mile or even century runs. They re- B turned thoroughly exhausted but enjoyed it. Usually B they sold their wheels after a few years of it. B It was phenomenal also what the girls could do. They B weren't found sitting around piazzas long when their B ' brothers and sweethearts were 20 miles away. The most Bj amazing distance feats were accomplished by slight fem- B inine creatures who previously had handled nothing more H -athletic than an embroidery needle. H The bicycle is tremendously useful today for working H people, and many a business man finds it the easiest way H to get around to his customers if these are located in a t limited area. Every school house has its row of juvenile ' ' sizes. Many grown-ups would find it still an exceedingly " health giving recreation if indulged in moderately. But present day sentiment favors the cushions of an automobile, automo-bile, and it wants the wider radius given by the gasoline motor. o |