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This page is primarily **advertising**, with one cartoon titled "Molly and Her Wheel" depicting a young woman on a bicycle. The cartoon accompanies a poem celebrating a girl cycling with rosy cheeks and visible joy. The accompanying verse romanticizes the activity, praising the "thrill" and "sensations" of wheel-riding while warning against losing one's "charms" through excessive cycling. **Context for modern readers:** This reflects late-Victorian anxiety about the bicycle's social impact on women. The bicycle represented newfound independence and mobility for women, but conservative commentators worried it was unfeminine or physically damaging. The poem here attempts a light, approving tone about female cyclists—yet the cautionary final lines ("not a cent there's 'een paid") suggest lingering concerns about propriety and respectability. The illustration's placement amid luxury product advertisements (pianos, whiskey, insurance) suggests this was aspirational content for Judge's affluent readership.

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Molly dear, as you dash by me — On your wheel, with cheeks aglow — Queer sensations thrill all through me. But, of course, you do not know ' Eyes like fawn's by hunter frighted, x Lips like cherries, ripe and rare — Ne'er had bride to bridegroom plighted Charms more lovable and fair. You dash by and I stand blinking, As by the sun my eyes were blind ; You don't know what I am thinking, I If you did would you be kind ? Well, indeed, do T remember As Tsay, When you chose your wheel that day. It was the fourteenth of September— Nearly nine months passed away es, Molly dear, as you dash by me, Eyes abright and cheeks aglow, there thrill all through me Sensations which vou do not know. Wut not your charms thus make me feel Sensations queer, oh lovely ma am the agent for that wheel, ‘And not a cent thereon 's been paid. L AvaMs, 315. OUTFIT. .. gL. 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