Foreign News: Bicycle Boom

Still careful never to employ so coarse a word as "legs," Manchester's inimitable Guardian published recently the following despatch, dated not from "London" but meticulously from "Fleet Street" in London:

"Mr. George Lansbury [Leader of the Labor Party] opened at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, today, the Lightweight Cycling, Hiking and Camping Exhibition. . . . In his speech Mr. Lansbury declared that it would be a bad day for us when we ceased to use our limbs. It was a good thing that some machinery should be so adapted that men and women...

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