he roadside for a little breathing spell.

Don't absent yourself from church to go wheeling, as you and your
bicycle are welcome at most houses of worship.

Don't leave your bicycle in the lower hallway of your flat-house for
the other tenants to fall over in the dark.

Don't believe the farmer boy who says that it is "two miles to the
next town." It may be two, four, six or twelve.

Don't be more than an hour passing a given point, although wheeling on
a dusty road is honestly conducive to thirst.

Don't smile at the figure others cut astride their wheels, as it is
not given you to see yourself as others see you.

Don't coast down a strange hill with a curve at its bottom. There is
no telling what you will meet when it is too late.

Don't ride ten miles at a scorching pace, then drink cold water and
lie around on the grass, unless you are tired of life.

Don't try to carry your bike downstairs under your arm. Put it on your
shoulder, or you will come to distress.

Don't laugh the watchful copper to scorn because your lamp is burning
brightly. He can afford to wait his time to laugh.

Don't dress immodestly or in the costume of a track sprinter. Sweaters
worn like a Chinaman's blouse are almost indecent.

Don't forget that the modern law of the road requires you to turn out
to the right in passing another bicycle or other vehicle.

Women's Bicycle Rides.

"Women who ride bicycles should make it a law with themselves never to
ride after a feeling of weariness comes over them," said a well-known
physician. "I just came from visiting a woman who tried to ride around
the city last Sunday. It was the fourth time she had ever ridden a
wheel out of doors. She got half way around, came home, in street cars
and a carriage, and has been sick in bed ever since. She ought to be
an example to all women who ride. For those who are beginning,
especially, and in a measure for all women, there is a great danger in
overdoing. Some women ride centuries, it is true, but they are men in
strength. No ordinary woman should start out before knowing how far
she is going. Ordinarily, though, they ride twice as far as they
ought. They start out and ride away from home until they get tired.

"Then they have to ride back, getting more and more exhausted with
every turn of the wheels. No ordinary woman who rides once or twice a
week should go more than ten miles at a trip. That is perhaps an
hour's ride, that may be easily extended