The Bicycle An Outlet To Woman's Zeal

There was a good deal of pith to Mrs. Stanton's remark in reply to Bishop Doane that "women are riding to suffrage on the bicycle." They may not be riding to suffrage, but they are riding everywhere and everywhither they want to go, says Harper's Weekly. Certainly and conspicuously they are riding into any sort of costume it suits them to put on. Bloomers are getting so cojnmon that it seems possible that the untutored eye will presently dweil upon them without a shock. The more circumspect American ladies stlll keep out of them, and may never come to prefer them to skirts, but the young and giddy experiment wlth them pretty freely. Was there ever anything so efficacious to give a woman an idea of what she could do if she tried as the bicycle? Soberly speaking, if she had to choose between the ballot and the bicycle as a means of development and advancement, she might better cleave to the bike. It is worth more to her than the ballot. It is more fun, more use, lees trouble, and very much less costly. There was pith in what Miss Stanton said, but is there not some substance in the suggestion that the bicycle has brought women so many new opportunities and privileges that she never needed or wanted the suffrage so little as now?