Ladies' Column (con't)
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        Have you heard of the Vegetarian Cycling
Club?  I hear it has a great many members; and
in 1896 a ladies' section was started with about
thirty members.  As many have joined the club
this season, it evidently proves that a diet of
flesh is by no means necessary for the enjoyment
of this favourite pastime. Cycling is such a craze
with some women, is it not/  They talk incessantly
and exclusively about it, and most learnedly to
those who can least follow them.  Perhaps they
would not absolutely deny in words that there are
any other sports or pastimes, but I quite think in
their heart of hearts they doubt it.  Of course their
particular machine is "the one" in the world, and
their maker absolutely without a rival, and should
you dispute this fact, it is quite possible that "high
words" might ensue.  News-paper articles on
bicycling are constantly to be met with, and there
is rarely on in which the question is not asked in so
many words, "Has bicycling come to stay?"  I notice,
however, that this question is seldom answered;
but don't you think one might venture to say that
it will stay, at any rate until something better is
found to take its place, that something combining
pace and pleasant exercise as completely.  We do
not believe that auto-cars or motor-cycles driven by
air propellers, or forced along the road by com-
plicated machinery, or even the flying machines
that have been exhibited lately, if not used, will
ever oust bicycles from their position in popular
favour.---Ever yours,
                                                                EDNIA

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