Women Cyclists.

Hastings Standard, Issue 164, 5 November 1896, Page 4

Women Cyclists.

At the Sanitary Congress in Newcastle (Kngland), I>r K. 15. Turner read a paper on The Sanitary Effects of Cycling for Ladies." There was, he said, an almost unanimous concensus of opinion amongst those best qualified to judge that the average standard of health among women who cyeleil had undergone an appreciable pie vat ion. In his own experience, he bad seen a large number of women and voting girls from whom a la rye number of petty and functional derangements bad been entirely banished, thanks to the good otbees of tlx; wheel, and some also in whom organic mischief bad been alleviatid. Modern-day women, especially among the upper classes, were prone to a condition of what he termed •' under health," the symptoms of which were manifested in slight indigestion, ennni, lassitude, nerves, bloodlessness, and loss of appetite. The cycle whs a means of rapid locomotion adapted to the weak. It calls into play every muscle in the body, while the weight was not carritd on tlafeet, but was rolled on wheels, and a sntlicient tax was levied on the In-art and lungs, stimulating those organs, and producing a healthy and beneficial action of the skin. The appetit. was improved, sleep was encouraged, and there was a free and frequent renewal of the oxvgeii in the bl'JO 1.