Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get

some sleep. So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight let's kick off a series of returns to books that listeners have requested more of

with bicycling for ladies, the common sense of bicycling, with hints as to the art of wheeling, advice to beginners, dress, care of of

part of Wheeling, advice to beginners, dress, care of the bicycle, mechanics, training, exercise, etc, etc.

by Maria E. Ward.

Copyright 1896

by Brentano's of New York.

Let's pick up where we left off. Chapter 4. Four

beginners. Mount and away. easy it seems.

To the novice it is not as easy as it looks.

Yet everyone or almost everyone can learn to ride, though there are different ways of going about it.

Unless the beginner is one of those fortunate beings who mount, and as it were wheel at sight,

little need be said about instruction at this stage of proceedings if a bicycle school is within reach.

A few suggestions may be desirable, however, even with a competent instructor.

Nothing more quickly exhausts one's strength

than the first few minutes with a bicycle.

This is due to the fact that many unused muscles are called upon to do unaccustomed

work and to work together in new combinations, and the effort required, and the accompanying nervous excitement

produce a sudden and apparently unaccountable fatigue. Normal conditions can be restored by resting long enough to allow

repair of the wasted tissues. It is well to stop when a little tired, rather than to

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