eling shoes. A cap of
tweed to match the suit completes the rig. At cycling clubs black small
clothes with dinner jacket may be worn, but as yet it is not the
prevailing fashion.

In summer very natty wheeling costumes are made of linen or crash.

One word more as to wheeling. Owing to its popularity, many have sought
to make it vulgar and common. An idea that a man has the privilege of
addressing any woman on a bicycle is most erroneous. You would not offer
such an impertinence to an equestrienne, and you must remember that a
"wheel" is only a metal horse. To catch up with or pass unchaperoned or
unescorted women wheelers is as much a breach of etiquette as to be
guilty of the same vulgarity toward an unaccompanied Amazon.

_Shooting_ deserves a few words, although shooting parties in the
acceptance of the foreign and British entertainments have as yet but few
counterparts in this country. Men chase the aniseed bag or an imported
fox when riding to hounds, and when they take gun in hand it is for the
purpose of hunting big game, such as one would obtain in the
Adirondacks, in the Rockies, in the Southern swamp lands, and in the
wilderness of Canada. In England you may be invited for the shooting.
The start is in the morning, in a party accompanied by the gamekeepers.
The birds are flurried, the guns are loaded by your special attendant,
and you only pause in your work of destruction for luncheon, which is
served somewhere in the woods or on the moors. You are expected to be at
the house about four, where, after changing your clothes, you appear in
the drawing room for tea. You are cautioned in these parties, in order
to avoid accident, before crossing a hedge, gate, or any other obstacle,
to remove your cartridges. You are to be unusually careful in the manner
of holding your gun, and should certainly not flourish it around or
point it at any living thing, save that which it is intended to kill.
Guns used as walking sticks or props to take flying leaps or other
extraordinary purposes are the assinine diversions of some idiots. In
England a position is assigned to you. It is etiquette to remain in it,
shooting in a liberal and sportsmanlike spirit, accepting shots as they
come. The gamekeepers expect a tip at the end of the visit. The correct
dress is loose jacket, knicker corduroy breeches, stout ribbed
stockings, and box-cloth leggings. Heavy russet boots and a cloth
shooting cap are also worn.

_Bowls_ is a favor