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present their most estimable trait, modesty, to 
the public eye. They seem to have lost sight 
of propriety under the effort to appear “chic,” 
and when this endeavor is uppermost and ap- 
parent, or not so, as the case may be, they get 
on the wheel arrayed in the most inappropriate 
garments. The long full skirts look like twin 
sisters to the outflowing sleeves, even when the 
speed is not beyond a few miles an hour; the 
“bloomer” Mary Walker, the 
man-woman ; the short skirt and leggings, es- 
pecially if the latter are heavy and yellow in 
color, shows bad taste in form and coloration, 
and the abbreviated skirt and long plain stock- 
ings are apt to shock even a man’s modesty 
when seen under the action of the pedal move- 
garb suggest 
ment. 
The proper dress for a woman, when riding 
a bicycle, is yet to be discovered, or, more 
properly, invented. It should be one that shows, 
as little as possible, the movement of the lower 
limbs. Of all awkward and to many disgust- 
ing things, the tread-mill action of a woman's 
limbs, when riding a wheel, is most to be re- 
gretted and remedied. This can only be done 
by some new device of clothing, and a fortune 
awaits the female haberdasher whose ingenuity 
can devise such a costume. A “riding friend” 
at our elbow suggests “rubber” as a cure all 
for this immodest display. He _ says, place 
around the edges of the skirt a rubber band to 
prevent it from flying outward on either side, 
and that the movement of the limbs may be 
lessened to the sight, attach one or more light 
rubber bands to the “head” just under the 
handle bar and then to the skirt by self 
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claspers in such manner and place as to hold 
the skirt free from the body. By this device 
the distressing and gyrating movement of the 
lower limbs cannot be seen. We are not suf- 
ficiently a modiste to elaborate this idea, and 
only give it for what it is worth. 
Personal. 
As all the departments of each issue of THE 
AMERICAN ANGLER are entirely made up of 
original matter, we will be glad if our angling 
friends and readers will aid in the work by 
contributing articles, especially for this de- 
partment, which is designed to be the re- 
ceptacle of such communications as will be of 
value to all lovers of the wheel, and especially 
to those who go a-fishing on it. 
‘*Some Useful Things.’’ 
We find on our desk three ‘‘useful things’ for ang- 
lers, which are described in Reuben Wood's Son’s cata- 
logue, also left with us by Geo. Barnes Wood, a son of 
“Uncle Reuben,” of Cosmopolitan fame as an angler. 
The first of these articles which lured our attention 
was ‘ Wood's Attractor.’”’ It is simply a small spin- 
ner with single hook attachment for trolling or cast- 
ing for black bass. Upon the hook can be put a min- 
now, worm, or other lure, and in this shape would, 
doubtless, be very attractive for striped bass or weak- 
fish. The second article is a rod carrier, adapted for 
all sizes of rods, which slip into the leather ends of the 
“ carrier,’ thus being protected from harm at the tip 
ends. Both of these articles we have been looking 
after for years. The third is an admirable leader box, 
which no fisherman can do without. The catalogue is 
handsomely and practically illustrated and contains 
descriptions and prices of every article that enters into 
the imepedimenta of the angler. 
