The Angling Cyclist 
‘““Next to the skin, women should always 
wear flannel or flexible tricot. At all events, 
on returnining home the fair rider should fol- 
low the example of all men who are accus- 
tomed to exercise. She should change her 
moist underwear at once for dry ones, adopt- 
ing on entering on an unfamiliar form of 
exercise, the hygienic habits so beneficial to 
health, and to the utilization of new muscular 
powers. 
‘«Properly to advise any woman or girl to ride 
the bicycle, the physician must take into 
account her age, weight, facilities for learning 
to ride, and the subsequent training. Her 
dietary regime and general conditions, acting 
rationally, the improvement in woman’s health 
will be found more striking than in man’s. 
More striking because we are not accustomed 
to studying in woman the happy effect of 
muscular activity. The thorax, and especially 
the muscles of the arms, neck and shoulders, 
grow hard and enlarge in a woman truly sur- 
prising. Concurrently there is an augmented 
resistance to fatigue, the degree of this resist- 
ance surpassing all expectation. But for my 
part I am convinced that we shall go farther. 
“After noting that the wheel gives benefit and 
not injury to the female riders, the machine 
will be used in many maladies, especially 
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those which result from retarded activity of 
nutrition. From the wheel I shall expect the 
cure of a host of nervous symptoms, which 
now cause so much enbarrassment in our treat- 
ment of women, because we are at a loss for a 
suitable form of muscular activity. Bicycle 
exercise will strengthen the nervous system, 
and for curvature of the spine is excellent. In 
general anemia and lung trouble it is beneficial, 
as it oxidizes the blood. It will counteract a 
precocious obesity, and used in moderation it 
will do a vast amount of good. 
‘‘T would not advise riding where there is 
serious heart complication, as it accelerates 
the heart’s action. It will improve the general 
health, and radically modify many of the 
forms of malaise, begotten by a too sedentary 
life. 
“A light rigid safety, with pneumatic tires 
for rigidity and lightness, can be combined in 
a bicycle, and a light wheel is propelled with 
greater ease. The saddle must be adjusted so 
the rider will be seated squarely, without risk 
of gliding forward on the saddle, even when 
going down hill; the handle adjusted so as to 
sit erect and not lean forward. 
‘«The bicycle used in moderation is one of the 
most wholesome and exhilarating exercises 
that women and girls can indulge in.” 

AN OUTING ON 
To a young man who has a bit of that spice 
in his nature which used to animate the Amer- 
ican youth of the earlier part of this century, 
there is a strong attraction in the sea. Now, 
anybody can go to sea, and the way to do so is 
made plain and expensive by lines of steamers 
operating over every part of the globe, where it 
is worth while to run them. That is not going 
to sea though, in the old and proper sense, and 
there is a new experience in store for the 
tourist who wants to take his ocean strong, so 
to speak, and live directly in contact with it. 
He can get that experience, writes an editor 
of Bullinger’s Monitor Guide, from a week ina 
coasting schooner, although it is not every one 
who can or will take him, because the multiply- 
ing and improvement of steamships has made 
it less and less of an advantage to sailing 
vessels to carry passengers. A generation ago 
it was no unusual thing for captains of small 
AE COAST OR: 
vessels to take passengers on trips to their des- 
tinations—up to the British Provinces, into the 
labyrinthine gulfs of Maine, down to Florida, 
or over to the Bermudas. The Nova Scotia 
girls who were valued as housemaids in the 
days before we got to looking to Europe for our 
help—and precious little help most of it is— 
came to our cities on coasters, as incidents to 
the trade in lumber, stone and fish. 
Compared with going to sea in an ocean 
liner, a trip in a ‘long shore schooner is as 
camping out in the woods is to stopping at a 
five-dollar-a-day hotel. And that is the charm 
of the whole thing: it is roughing it, with a 
vengeance. Passage, when it can be secured» 
is low in price. On such vessels it used to 
average hardly more than a dollar a hundred 
miles, and when one thinks how much time that 
means, and how many meals it incurs, it will 
be seen that nothing farther could be expected 
