Nature's Cycle Path

Most of us at oue time or another have baeked for awhile upon some sandy beach of ocean or lake. We have bathed in the surf, gathered shells npon the shore, and thus whiled away many idle hours, but it was reserved for the bicycle to make ns really acquainted with those stretches of beach and shore which eeem to have been purposely prepared by kind Mother Nature as a glorious cycle path. Whether or not she originally intended it for wheels, she certainly spends a great deal of her time in keeping the path in repair, and those active servants of hers, wind and wave, rain and sun, are kept very busy at ■work upon it all the time. Tbis long and varied path stretches in its entirety hundreds of miles along our ocean shores and around the borders of onr great lakes, but the particular bit with which we became familiar during happy summer weeks, and to share in whose delights I would tempt others, is a comparatively small portion on the southern shore of Lake Erie. It begins ■with the extreme end of Cedar point, which with its long arm holds in a portioo of Sandusky bay, and extends eastward 15 miles or more np the shore. This sandy shore continúes all the way to Cleveland and beyond, but becanse of some intervening piles of rock one cannot ride the whole 50 or 60 miles. The shorter distance is, however, enough for a summer day's ride, especially if one takes it comfortably and leisurely and appropriates to himself the