New Sign Of The Zodiac

The next time the signs of the zodiac are revised room should be made among them for the bicycle. As they stand they are out of date. The bicycle has come to be about the most conspicuous and omnipresent vernal emblem, and it is more conspicuous and omnipresent this year than ever before. Hordes of new adventurers - women adventurers in particular - have learned to ride it during the winter that is past, and are ready to seize upon the earliest days of warmth and sunshine to explore the parks and country roads. Since bicycling began an appalling amount of new knowledge has become necessary lor the successful guidance of a family. One must know which bicycle is the best, what is the lowest sum it can be bought for, what sum any given second hand bicycle is really worth, whether last year's machine will do for another season, and so on indefinitely. Brlefly, the active participant in contemporary life must know bicycles, and if he is the father of a family his knowledge must be co-extensive with his parental responsibilities. The peculiarity about bicycles whieh is most impressive, and also most afflicting, is that every bicyclist yearns to start the season with a brand new machine of the very newest make. There is such a thing as being satisfied with last year's horse, and even preferring him to an untried quadruped, but improvements in bicycles are devised so much more rapidly than improvements in horses that bicycles get out of date much sooner. And then, too, when you buy a new bicycle you can know pretty deflnitely what you are getting, and when you buy a new horse of course you can't.