Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1887 — The Art of Falling. [ARTICLE]

The Art of Falling.

A party of bicyclists were traveling along the macadamized road beyond Carondelet, when they met a funeral procession. They separated, some going on one and some on the other side of the hearse. The horses became frightened and shied to one side. In so doing the pole of the hearse swung into the bicycle of a rider, and, lifting machine and rider, carried them against a fence at the side of the road to which the horses had run. The bicyclist was not inj nred,nor was his machine broken. However, I must say that bicycle riders are very seldom hurt, although they sometimes have hard falls. They seem to learn how to fall, after having taken a few headers, so as to light on the ground easily. After a man has fallen once or twice he learns how to gather himself before he reaches a landing.— Si. Louis Globe-D j mo< rat.