Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — It Made a Difference. [ARTICLE]

It Made a Difference.

The Chicago Record tells of a girl who was slized with the bicycle mania. About a month ago she invested her savings in a bicycle. Every morning she disappeared for several hours and returned home with bandaged fingers, torn skirts, a banged-in hat, a sour temper, and a painful limp. The other day she Invited the family to assemble at a certain riding school to see her perform She nimbly mounted, spun around the hall twice, jumped off and on with the agility of a young kitten, and excited the admiration of the whole crowd. Then some officious person said: “Go around the other way.” She had always practiced in the one direction, but such a trifle did not worry her, so she wheeled around and rode off like a runaway cable-car. When she arrived at the first turn there was a terrible crash, a shriek, a resounding crack made by her head coming in contact with the floor, and then all was still. The family had her taken home in an ambulance, and she has already made arrangements to have the machine patched up and sold at half price.