Sherman Daily Democrat
Thursday, October 16, 1919

Reports from bicycle factories are that a large demand has set in for wheels, and that a lot of people have taken to riding again. Higher streetcar and railroad fares promote it in some of the larger cities.
The bicycle has had much influence on the life of the people. Before it was popularized, most workers had to live pretty close to their jobs.

The bicycle enables a businessman or mechanic to live anywhere within a few miles of his work, and get back and forth with comfort. It has greatly promoted the tendency for people to live in open places on the outskirts of towns where they can have gardens and good air and avoid crowded quarters.

Children own bicycles today in enormous numbers. The boy of 25 years ago had a velocipede with which he used to trundle back and forth on the sidewalk, but he never got far from home on it. His son ranges the surrounding country on his modern wheel and to and from school. Many youngsters living in towns use the wheels to get to and from work on the farms.

With the girls and women the bicycle seems to have lost its charm. The trouble may be that they can't wear the modern tight skirts on the wheel, or that nothing but automobile rides will satisfy them now, or that the young men friends no longer invite them on long distance runs.