Book excerpt: Excerpt from Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, 1916, Vol. 14 When standing armies get tired do they rest themselves on the seat of war? Now we are in a leap year. How many people are aware of the origin of that special female prerogative be longing to leap year? By an Act of the Scottish Parlia ment passed during the reign of Margaret, Every maiden of both high and low degree shall have liberty to speak to the man she likes. And mark this, all ye. Bachelors of the year 1916, If he refuse to take her to be his wife he shall be mulct in the sum of 100 or less, as his estate may be, except and always if he can make it appear that he is betrothed to another woman then he shall be free. Now we will all smear our bicycles with vaseline and hang them on the wall In future we must get our outside exercise with the snow shovel. We note that in Chicago's annual road race for bicycles there were forty-two riders and the thirty-ninth man at the finish was A. Zimmerman. What's in a name? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.