Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . naturally followed that an etiquette of cycling should be established,and that it should be well established and rigidly regarded by society. There are the details of meeting, mounting, right of way and variousother points which are carefully observed and give the desired airof fashionable righteousness, without which, for many people, thepleasure of meeting in a social way on ones wheel would be butlegendary. It is distinctly understood in the first p
Twentieth century culture and deportment, or, The lady and gentleman at home and abroad : containing rules of etiquette for all occasions ... . naturally followed that an etiquette of cycling should be established,and that it should be well established and rigidly regarded by society. There are the details of meeting, mounting, right of way and variousother points which are carefully observed and give the desired airof fashionable righteousness, without which, for many people, thepleasure of meeting in a social way on ones wheel would be butlegendary. It is distinctly understood in the first place that cycling is thecorrect word; the up-to-date woman dares not speak of bicycling norof wheeling. A Cyclers Guide. If in town, the early hours of the morning are chosen for a ridethrough the park. This is on the same principle that it is consideredgood form for a young woman to drive only in the morning, that is,when she herself is the whip. In the country the rules, both asregards cycling and driving, are not as rigid. The maiden, however,who is a stickler for form, does all her cycling in the hours whichcome before noon—unless
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