A LADY VELOCIPEDIST.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 207, 19 December 1876, Page 4

A LADY VELOCIPEDIST.

K ♦ ■j, jCSeiiffii' Madame is nt prepMt pfrfwinfag alb Wollmgtmi; and this is the Aryus describes the tarima I- £ats performed:—From the footlights to P 'tfit rear (ul.tbo stage were placsid flower- | jpoto abo*tt two feet apart, and Madame tjtauxai entering in fall riding costume, p ■patina on a bicycle, and «rac-lulJy ■Mkssa circuit of the flower-pots; ttien ' lb» intersects them, g*>ts ofeight erolutious md twists and turns * ta d,aaoa«n among the intrcnte n.tvoric tieir plants, with' . out touching any of 1 than. Tbia «ai merely aprelnde u» wk*t m« to cum -, trai it bought dutrn the -tmr. 'l'.ie ter« rwtfVtsl, a:«l Ma.ti»w . in A cW r fiStitij c afciiii.', aii.l V lrentthrongh a nnraWr **t mdt asj£twng with bci* toe tack of t*ie knstt" ingon it,£c. While i'tb » doas the stage Is gr.idoiMy car jtr *1 wit i c'mrn- ■ ppe bottles with a wo<»tL-n stitalanc; projectile from the nse* »»f esc'% satn rated with some kind of »piiri6» and when the whole floor is amral thesjf nr.lighted, and the gas turned oX Th » sens Is nDr pretty. Ainiibl t!te lighted boraMthe graceful artistic ruL&as fnes an J (always side-saddle and working *Jiu treadle with one foot only) easy as if ss.j were cn the bare floor skim:uitig in a:i,l »»nt anJ txoond t';e lights without tunc una and'making cwuipteto cimtts at tituoi rotmd a single bottle, a fuat mf*3t di ficcilt of aecomptishtncnL 1 ?i9(fr ** &is Madame has a fan haa L» '. hsr, an 1 giving the bicycle an extra infpiEis s'le spr.;i a -s off the treadle, kneels oa l«ll *, and potting herself in a grac."ftii pjsttjpe # thus gfidts, like a swalhw, „oiuitM£ du!lypacked tattles, fanninj heras'.f. aiid appvMllljp as Bunch at ease as if she wtrj sitting, in.; a" private W at an op.ra. Fur thssefeats she received a thunder of apflnaSi After tho bottles had been reaOTed Madame performed another extrassdinaxy feat. She stood on the bicycle villi on« foot on the treadle, and in this position she tripped round runnel the stage amidst noisy all porta of the honso. She was mm twice before the curtain before the apptanse ceased. To speak of- this lady's# siding* as being the acme of grace fs but tha mildest term. The entertainment is a mast; novel one, and one which none should allow to pass. After M.ulatne liauiiini'i feats a muaicul milan-p terminated the performances of the evening.