Bicycling On The Road

There are very few peoplo of the farming class who, if properly approached, wlll decline to take you in for the night, provided you are reasonably well dressed, a gentlemanly looking personage and are not traveling In a company of more than two, lEcluding yourself, says Harper's Round Table. You ride along through the day and towaí-d evening come upon iüme attractive-looklng farmhouse. You approach and ask the mistress if she will take you and your friend in for the night, adding that you are traveling on a tour from sueh a point to such a polnt, that you wlll gladly pay for what rest and food she can give ycu. In nine cases out of ten she will take you in after a short talk. An evening spent with the farmer and his wife and family, if you enter into the spirit of the thlng, is one of the most enjoyable of evenings and at the same time oe of the most valuable methods for picklng up a knowledge of the people of this country who Hve out of your immediate sphere. Toward bedtime they will probably want to put you in the spare chamber, whlch, in such homes, means the one unused room of the bxiuse. If you decline and take one of the poorer but frequently used rooms you wiil be happier. I any case the mistress of the house will probably think more of you and charge you less. Often in the morning when you set put to continue your journey the farmer and his wife will laugh at the idea of payment. In that case it Is due to those who come after you as well as to yourself that when you return home you send them somethlng in the nature of a present or remembrance. In this way some very pleasant evenir.gs are passed and some attractive acquaintances made,new places are discovered and new features of old places found,out from day to day and, over and above all, it is the most inexpensive method of traveling afoot or awheel that can be imagined.