BICYCLING. 



Chief Consul Potter announces the following- 

 offer of cash prizes for the purpose of encouraging 

 personal effort on the part of members of the 

 New York state division, L. A. W. , in enlarging 

 the membership roll. 



A first prize of $100 will be paid to that member 

 of our State division, man or woman, who obtains 

 the largest number of paid applications for mem- 

 bership between April 30th and December 31st, 

 1895, both dates inclusive. The second prize, of 

 $50, will be paid to the member obtaining the 

 second largest number of paid applications 

 during said period. The third ($40), the fourth 

 ($35), fifth ($25), sixth ($20), seventh ($15), 

 eighth ($10), and ninth ($5) prizes will be paid 

 to the persons obtaining the third, fourth, fifth, 

 sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth largest number 

 of said applications during said period. 



Competitors will file their names, addresses 

 and league numbers with the secretary-treasurer, 

 W. S. Bull, No. 78 White Building, Buffalo, 

 N. Y., before beginning competition. 



The local committee having in charge the 

 programme of racing events for the national 

 meet of the L. A. W. at Asbury Park, has 

 decided on the following : 



First Day (Thursday, July 11). — One mile 

 novice, two mile (handicap), class A ; half mile 

 (open), class B ; half mile (open), class A ; two 

 mile (national championship), one mile (open), 

 with pace makers, class B ; one mile tandem, 

 class A. 



Second Day (Friday, July 12). — Half mile 

 novice, two-thirds mile (open), class B ; one mile 

 (handicap), class A; half mile (national champion- 

 ship) two mile (handicap), class B ; one mile 

 (open), with pace makers, class A, 



Third Day ( Saturday, July 13). — Two-thirds 

 mile, 2:35 class ; one mile (open), class A ; one 

 mile (open), with pace makers, class B ; half 

 mile (handicap), class A ; one-quarter mile 

 (national championship), two mile (handicap), 

 special, class B. 



SUBMISSION. 



She's a maiden fair and haughty, 



And so very, very naughty 

 That she doesn't care when Mrs. Grundy kicks ; 



For she will go out a-wheeling, 



Notwithstanding public feeling, 

 In the dearest, most distracting pair of "knicks. " 



But she looks so sweet and charming 



In this rig they call alarming, 

 That I make a vow if ever for my wife 



I shall chance, by love to win her — 



This dear, precious, little sinner — 

 She may wear the knickerbockers all her life ! 



— Mabelle E. Anderson in Truth. 



ONE MORE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN. 



A new woman attracted a great deal of atten- 

 tion yesterday morning as she made her way 

 from Thirty-first street down Broadway. Any 

 one having attended the late costume show would 

 have recognized at once that the suit worn by 

 this woman was an exact counterpart to one on 

 exhibition. It was of brown cloth, the short 

 skirt reaching from four to six inches below the 

 knee. The jacket was short and jaunty, and 

 gaiters reaching to the knee were worn over tan 

 boots and were the same shade as suit and hat. 

 The hat itself was a small derby worn well over 

 the face. 



At the costume show the model wearing the 

 original costume was displayed with a bicycle, 

 which she mounted from time to time to demon- 

 strate the practicability and comfort of such a 

 suit for bicycling. The woman seen yesterday 

 had no wheel with her and evidently intended to 

 wear her costume for walking solely. The men, 

 especially, seemed to be overcome with wonder 

 at the sight, for they forgot good breeding and 

 simply stopped and stared as she passed. Some 

 of the women looked, then looked away in 

 haughty disdain. Some gazed in awe-struck ad- 

 miration. Some snickered, and others chuckled or 

 tittered, or giggled, or smiled, or laughed. But 

 the emancipated woman strode through the street, 

 with dignity and with an air of absolute un- 

 consciousness that she was the cynosure of all 

 eyes. — New York Herald. 



An eminent physician of Paris has sent out a 

 series of questions to a number of the most promi- 

 nent doctors in France, as to the use of the bicycle 

 by women, and gives the result of his inquiry in 

 the European edition of the New York Herald, 

 as follows : 



" The far greater amount of testimony appears 

 to be in favor of bicycle riding for women, on 

 the express condition that it be done in moder- 

 ation, and never during any indisposition or sick- 

 ness. Not only is cycling claimed to be harm- 

 less, but it is said to have a beneficial effect by 

 its action on the general health of the rider ; for 

 this reason it is recommended in the treatment 

 of certain complaints, such as neurasthenia and 

 other nervous disorders, hysteria, morphiomania, 

 anaemia, chlorosis and lymphatism. It is said to 

 stimulate nutrition in intellectual fatigue, dia- 

 betes, dyspepsia, hypochondria, gout, subacute 

 and chronic rheumatism, constipation, migraine, 

 tuberculosis in its early stages, emphysema and 

 chronic bronchitis; but it is strictly counter-indi- 

 cated in organic complaints of the heart or 

 abdominal organs, and in cases of even slight 

 albuminuria dependent on the renal lesion. 



The second annual cycle show will be held at 

 the Second regiment armory and Battery D 

 building, on Michigan avenue, Chicago, the week 

 of January 4 to January 11, 1896. 



The result of my advertising of the " Layman 

 Pneumatic Sporting and Outing Boat" in Recrea- 

 tion is far beyond my expectations. The number 

 of inquiries mentioning Recreation, place it in 

 line with several of the older magazines, notably 

 Harpers' and Munsey's, both of which I am 

 using with gratifying results, h. D. Layman. 



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