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218 In short, all these and other advantages combine to make tricycling healthful alike to body and mind. Nor is it injurious even to delicate persons if proper precautions are observed. It benefits many chronic complaints, and, according to eminent authorities, may be practised with advantage even by ladies who are far advanced in pregnancy, during which period many are apt to be too sedentary.

For those who have a tendency to grow unduly fat, especially in middle life, the tricycle is invaluable. Many people who "live well" are apt to suffer from indigestion really induced from overeating, and these are greatly benefited by tricycling. The reason for this is simple. As previously explained, in exercise muscular work is done and tissue used up, hence room is left for new material, and food is properly utilized. Tricycling, like other exercises, should not be undertaken within an hour before or after eating, and this for a simple physiological reason. I have said whatever part of the body is in action receives an extra supply of blood to replace the waste of tissue that is going on. Hence when the stomach is engaged in the work of digesting a meal it requires a continuous and liberal allowance of the vital fluid; but muscular or severe mental exertion draws the blood from the internal organs to the muscles or brain, ergo, rest should be indulged in both before, after, and during meals.

Tricycling has become quite fashionable for men, and there is every reason to hope and believe