THE ANGLING CY CLS 
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Notes of the Wheel. 
It is difficult to realize the extent and scope 
of the literature of the wheel. It comes to our 
desk in various and attractive forms, the most 
prominent and interesting being the weekly 
publications respectively called The Wheel 
and The American Wheelman. Both of 
these journals take rank with the best of the 
trade or class periodicals, not only in the 
character of their editorial matter, but in their 
superb illustrations, and the diversity and ex- 
tent of the news gathered, hither and yon, from 
every section of the country, That even an 
imperfect idea may be had of the broad guage 
of these two estimable publications we have 
thrown together a column or more of notes 
gathered mainly from their pages, with addi- 
tions of ourown. As we glance them over we 
are astonished at the development of this class 
of literature. It seems but as yesterday when 
the entire field was covered by a single journal 
of eight or ten pages, but now it is only par- 
tially filled by scores of like publications, and 
more are stilltocome. Again, when we glance 
over our morning’s supply of daily papers, 
we find in all columns of matter exclusively 
devoted to news of the wheelmen, what they 
are doing and intend to do. It will be ob- 
served that the annexed notes are full of 
of varied matter, served up soas to be of value, 
not alone to the tyro, but to the expert, he 
who ‘‘scorches”’ on the pedals in August heat 
or in the December frosts. All are served 
alike at this literary feast. 
In mounting, the gentleman, who is accom- 
panying a lady, holds her wheel; she stands 
on the left side of the machine and puts her 
right foot across the frame to the right pedal, 
which at the time must be up; pushing the 
right pedal causes the machine to start, and 
then, with the left foot in place, the rider starts 
ahead—slowly at first, in order to give her 
cavalier time to mount his wheel, which he 
will do in the briefest time possible. When 
the end of the ride is reached the man quickly 
dismounts and is at his companion’s side to 
assist her, she, in the meantime, assisting 
herself as much as possible. 
Judging from observances along the crowded 
boulevards, there is no pastime in which both 
sexes participate where the lady is so inde- 
pendent of assistance as in wheeling. She 
gets upon her bicycle with ease and unassisted, 
and dismounts with the same facility. Eti- 
quette- has its forms in every social meeting 
of the sexes, but excluding its value as a re- 
fining influence, it is of less practical use in 
wheeling than in any other class of recreation. 
The sensible cyclewoman adopts the motto 
that Mr. Ruskin thought should be placed 
over the door of every art school in the country 
—moderation. ‘This she does, not only be- 
cause she is thus the better able to preserve 
her skill and strength as a cyclist, but—alas 
for the inevitable vanity governing all feminine 
standards—because she ensures better looks. 
Said one wheelwoman: ‘‘ The effect of long, 
hard riding resembles that gained in the hay- 
field. Women who would scorn the idea of 
field-labor manage to bring about precisely the 
same results so far as looks are concerned by 
immoderate bicycle exercise. A leathery skin 
and a tomato-like nose cannot enhance any 
woman's beauty, and yet these are the invar- 
iable penalties paid by women who do not 
temper their riding with moderation. ‘The ap- 
pearance of your woman who indulges indis- 
criminately in hard riding is as weather-beaten 
as that of a horny-handed son of toilor a skip- 
per of the seas.”’ 
Setting aside the bad effects of fast riding, 
when continued to extremes, upon the organs 
of her body, a woman who gets what is called 
‘a craze of the wheel” is apt to become un- 
fitted for the domestic routine of her duties. 
It unsexes her, for the fascination of a whirl 
on the road often creates a morbid indiffer- 
ence, sometimes disgust, to home duties. She 
cannot serve two masters at one and the same 
time. This is not from our own knowledge, 
but from that of an estimable lady who forgot 
herself, her home and its duties, fortunately 
for a short period only, in the pleasures of 
wheeling. She has reformed. 
‘To the ordinary observer of the metropolitan 
cycler, the fact becomes at once evident that 
nearly one-third of the wheels which are being 
ridden are out of track. So common does this 
seem to be that it begets an idea that, per- 
haps, after all, the diamond frame is not the 
perfect one itis supposed to be. This variance 
in trackage is all the way from a quarter to as 
much as three inches, and it seems strange 
that the riders should not at once detect it, 
owing to the uncomfortableness of riding a 
wheel in such a condition. When you find 
