The Bearings, Vol 5, No 21
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
Brief item on English small boys who have taken to lassoing cyclists with lariats — a development described as 'noose' in the worst possible pun.
- p. 1
Contrast between the sentimental tourist awed by alpine grandeur and the unsentimental one who only wishes there were a good coasting road down to the valley.
- p. 1
Observation that care and cycling seldom travel together, but when they do, care must soon lag behind.
- p. 1
Brief exchange between hub and drill in which the hub complains of being bored and the drill replies that boring is what it does — and it puts the hub in a hole.
- p. 5
Classroom exchange in which 'falls' is given as the correct answer to what begins bicycling.
- p. 1
Willie concludes that when the light went out, Moses was about ten miles from home without a match and had to walk all the way back.
- p. 1
Clarification that a 'bi-metalist' is not necessarily one who supplies metal for bicycles.
- p. 1
A mother interrupts a bicycle lesson and objects to the young man's propriety; he explains he has to support the girl to keep her from falling, but the old lady is not convinced and the lessons end.
- p. 1
Satirical portrait of a cycling editor who is 'editing' by running his scissors through The Bearings, pasting the clippings on paper, and sending them to the compositor as original copy.