Read the excerpt from Chapter 5 of Wheels of Change.In 1895, Stanton contributed an article to the American Wheelman celebrating this "wonderful new style of locomotion." In the article, titled "The Era of the Bicycle," she pointed out that cycling was increasing people's mobility, eliminating the cost of feeding and housing horses, and encouraging the building of good roads. However, she saved her greatest praise for the bicycle's effects on women. "The bicycle," she wrote, "will inspire women with more courage, self-respect and self-reliance and make the next generation more vigorous of mind and of body; for feeble mothers do not produce great statesmen, scientists and scholars."