Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1905 — Another “Bike” Boom. [ARTICLE]

Another “Bike” Boom.

A western organization of wheelmen Is hard at work with the highly laudable aim of starting another boom for the bicycle. It Is an exceedingly difficult matter to create a boom by purely artificial methods, but we sincerely hope that this effort will succeed. The bicycle boom Is a boom which deserves to be boomed. Call It whatever you like—a craze or-41 fad—the popular interest and enthusiasm for the wheel which swept over the country a few years ago was one of the happiest and heultliiest “crazes” that ever struck the America u people or any other people, aud It cannot come again too soon or stay too loug. How much those years of bicycle activity added to the Hum total of Innocent human enjoyment, human vitality and energy It would be impossible to estimate, but we venture the statement, without fear of contradiction, that no other modern contrivance of human devising has contributed so largely to these benefits as the wheel. Immune, “You know, they say,” remarked Mr. Slotnan, gazing dubiously at the mistletoe above her head, “that kissing really spreads disease sometimes.” "Yes?’’ replied the sweet girl. "By the way, did you know 1 was vaccinated recently?”