New Sign Of The Zodiac

The next time the signs of the zodiac are revised room shonld 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 As they stand they are out of date.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 ctays of warmth and sunshine to explore the parks and country roads. Since bicycling bcgan an appalling mount of new knowledge has become necessary for the successful guidance of a family. One must know which bicycle is the best, what is the lowest eum 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, r.nd so on indefmitely. Brlefiy, the active participant in contemporary lifo must know bicycles, anrl if ho ík the father of a family bis knowledge must be co-extensive with nis parental responsibilities. The peculiarity about bicycles which is most impressive, and also most afflicting, is that every bicyclist yearns to start the season with a bvand new machine of the very newest make. Th ere 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quadruped, but improvements in bicycles are devised so much more rapidly than improvements in horses that bicycles get out of date much sooner.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.