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CAPITAL CITY CYCLIHG CLUB
Rooms 12, 13 und 11, at No. Ul south
Twelfth street, in the Zehrung block.
The rooms ure always open to Tieiting
wheelmen, who are invited to make
themselves at homo there when in the
city.
MEETINGS.
Kegular business meeting second
Tuesday of each month.
Meeting of board of directors second
Wednesduy of each month.
Election of ollicers the first Tuesday
in March of oach year.
OFFICERS.
President Eel M. Allen.
Vico President-S. M. Mills.
Secretary.Treasurer P. G. Yule.
Seargant-at-arms E. K. Mil mine.
Board of directors
Ed M. Allen S. M. Mills
F. G. Yulo E. E. Walton
A. R. Edmiston C. L. Shader
A. J. Hamilton C. A. Wirick
C. E. Seifert.
ROAD OFFIOEKS.
Captain P. V. tloagland.
First Lieutenent E. K. Milmine.
Second Lieutenant II. W. Peter.
ON THE WHEEL
THE GRBAT GYCLIST.
VICE VERSA
ller seaside garb tho critics find
Too cumbrous for their liking;
They also ridiculo tlio clothes
In which she rocs a-biking.
Anil yet she'd charming in tlio wnvo
And comely on tlio highway;
Why should she turn from Fajhion's road
To Prejudice's by-way?
Think of the sight should she appear.
To spite your carping humors,
With bloomers on for bathing suits,
And bathing suits for bloomers !
Washington Star.
SEEMINGLY NOT.
Woman put her foot in it when
The bloomer she did dc n.
Forsooth, was there another way
To get the blamed thing on?
Appropos of the indefinite postpon
ment of the anti-bloomer ordinance in
troduced in the Chicago city council by
Alderman Laughlin and the withdrawal
of his ordinance by an alderman of
another city on the appearance of a
colleague's wife to contest it, other
would-be law makers throughout tho
country might do well to remember that
the women have about made up their
minds to wear bloomers without respect
to common councils, legislatures or moss
back cranks. They will adopt such cos
tumes for cycling, and other exercise
too for that mutter, ns will mostconspiro
to their freedom and 'omfort. Hut in
bicycling will this provo most largely
true. It is not a fad. It has come to
stay. It is one of the very best means
of exercise for girls and young women
everinvented and is destined to improve
tho race physically, morally and in every
way. Tho women have 6et the paco in
this matter, are in the lead and are go
ing'to stay there. In fact it is safe to
predict that with tho many advantages
of tho cycle costume constantly beforo
them, in active every day use, so to
speak, tho day is not far oflTwtien a suit
able rainy weather street dress for
women on the bloomer and high gaiter
plan will be devised. Thus another
Tnko no offense, for what I say is true:
A faster rider, good my friend, than you.
Doth near you rido;
And, whceoe'e you go, you always may
Be sure, that rider take3 tho self-samu way,
Close by your tide.
The champion cyclist of the world I' Tis true.
JIis wheel is old; and yet, 'tis good as new.
Tho snowy rimo
Of ago U in his beard; yet on hollies.
Present, though never seen by mortal eyes.
His namo is Time. American Wheelman
mountains of Ilepsidam and swap tears
with the lonely whangdoodlo which
sitteth and grieveth there; for the bloom
er and tho knickerboeker, Iiko the
bicycle, havo also come to stay.
Uev. Kittredge Wheeler, of Chicago,
in a sermon delivered recently discussed
ditTerent phases of tho bicycle question.
In one part of his sermon he said: "I
shall not venture to touch Umii tho
question of costume, for the reason that
it I wero addressing a company of cy
clists in the latest and most up-to-date
uniform I would be in great doubt as to
the sex of my audience, and where a
manisin doubt in regard to his audience
especially on such a fundamental
subject as sow it would be wise for him
to speak very cautiously, if not to be
altogether silent. I will, however, ven
ture a single suggestion to the wheel-
FRED G. YULE.
step will be taken toward the emancipa
tion of womanhood from the thralldom
of useless drapery, and tho day of real
equality of the sexes brought nearer.
Future Thomas Carlyles in future Sar
tor Resartuses will have to devote a
large chapter to the consideration of tho
wheel in the reform of woman's dress
and her more rapid progress along the
line of predestined advancement. Unless
tho bicycle be eliminated altogether the
knickerbocker wil live and multiply
boyond all present comprehension. It is
harmonious and, under the circumstan
ces, it is beautiful, and no ambitious
solon need for a moment delude himself
with the idea that he can arrest the pro
cession of sweetness, gracefulness and
iight. On the contrary he would better,
while yet there is time, flee into the
men, males, and not, as a matter of fact,
wheelmen who are women. My sug
gestion to the men those of tho mascu
line gender is that they let their mus
taches and beards grow and to make
their costume as masculine as possible.
Wheelmen have no right to appear on
the street in feminine apparel. The
costume anywhere and everywhere
should mark, distinguish and emphasize
the sex. Nothing will ever be gained
by any costume, by any habit, either in
work or play, in toil or rest, on the street
or in the home, which obliterates or
makes dim the line, the demarcation of
the sex. So, if there be but twosuitable
costumes for bicycle riding, the single
closed skirt and the knickerbockers, be
gallant. Give woman her choice, and if
she takes the knickerboi kers do you
take what is left. lie a man and put on
tho skirt. Make it universal. Let tho
public understand it. This will distin
guish tho so on the wheel. Remember,
I am speaking only to men. Never wear
a female costume anywhere."
Ladies who rido should learn tho
mechanism of their machines, at least
tho common parts. Some wheclwomen
never touch their machines and are in
capable of cleaning them. Others con
descend to wipe them ou" with a rag,
but never pour in a drop of oil nor
inflate the pneumntics. All this is very
line since the men dispute for tho favor
of rendering these little services. Hut
the time will come when there will bo
no accommodating friend, and what will
you do? Thero ;s a certain prido in
being able to help yourself and caro for
your machine. Wheehvomen. help
yourselves.
"Your prediction that very few, if any,
lady's wheels will bo sold after this
year," said II. G. Dawes or tho Lincoln
Cycle Co,, to mo last Saturday, "may bo
nearer the truth than most people sup
pose. The woman's wheel in its present
form is a concession to skirts. It is, for
many reasons, not so good a wheol nor
so pleasant to ride as the ordinary
straight bar machine. Expert women
riders would all rido the straight-bar,
were it not for their skirts, and onco
they get into bloomers they, Booner or
later, will abandon the distinctly femi
nine wheel.'"
I hope the merchants of Lincoln will
realize, as keenly as the wheelmen do,
tho importance of the national circuit
meet which is to bo held in this city in
October. It will take, it is true, about
fifteen hundred dollars in prizes to bring
the speedy riders here, but in bringing
the riders we bring at least seven to ten
thousand wheelmen from over the stato
to attend the meet.
The Ashland run was again postponed
last Sunday morning on account of rain
and tho loys have suggested to mo that
a petition bo forwarded to Governor
Holcomb to have Frank Hoagland ap
pointed official rain-maker for tho
stato with positive instructions that
when a rain is needed he is to call a run
to that place.
I hope the various cycle clubs in tho
city will take hold with a vim, and com
bine in a monster parade on Merchants
day for the benefit of tho pic-nic of that
organization. The merchants have been
our friends in every event and we ought
to take this opportunity of testifying to
them our appreciation of their efforts.
I have received this week No. 3 Nol. 1
of the Wheelicoman, conducted by Mary
Sargent Hopkins at 131 Tremont street,
Boston, Mass. Typographically it is an
artistic gem of the printers art; its illus
trations are superb, and it is easily tho
most elegant publication of which 1
Jide O.
It is tho
Swiftest,
Lightest,
Easiest running,
Most Beaotiful.
Alimuinum finish.
Strongest in tho world.
Built of the best of steel.
II. E. SIDLES SELLS THEM.
112 N Thirteenth St. LINCOLN.
If you want a Bicycle see the
VICTOR
Easiest Running.
Seven Different Sizes.
Simplest in Construction.
Weight from 18 to 30 pounds.
Do this and
You Will Ride One.
2B O. Ytile, 113 K Thirteenth,
Best Clincher Tire
Made.
Strongest Frame.
C. A. WrRICK, Agent. 1217 0 STREET.
G-EO. A. CHANCER.
B. G. DAWES
Lincoln Cycle Company
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