Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — The Woman Bicyclist. [ARTICLE]

The Woman Bicyclist.

Belva Lockwood was the first woman to ride a bicycle in Washington and sho was ridiculed and jeered by the multitude, and the regulation anathema of “unsexeef woman” was hurled after her by the old fogies of conservatism. Now Mrs. Lockwood can ride the length of Pennsylvania avenue and not a masculine head would be turned. Cnstoni makes laws as inexorable as those of tho Medes and Persians. A bicycle tournament has just been held in that city, and the wives and sweethearts of the boys rode their bicycles beside them, and the crowds looked on and approved. The world “do move,” and the wheels help it along.