Show HI DOG mav man rAK eak lun IUN what a wonderful deal or of talk they rale raie about women don t they hind bind thle thie m moat bistor of it Is ia done dode by the ex tex t mex theina el elves ves the they know best how well it is de arved the th z latest is an article in the san ran francisco examiner about the ahe way we ride and the idea iden la Is that we shoud should ride a aride stride waw I 1 have leen een used tot to horsen borsets and horseback horse borbe back bam riding ever bince since I 1 can remember and hav e ridden in almost every conceivable manne reven mista Wista rid tid lug ing up upon on a gunny sack baek filled with straw in a vain endeavor to emulate a female circus rider I 1 had once seen sen and I 1 in fielt finitely ly prefer the side saddle saddie as a matter of orease ease and grace g race it Is ia all very due to talk about it being more graceful and more moroco comfortable co until you have been a woman and tried both ways and until you have been beeh seen heen a woman sitting forlornly astride a horse looking for all the world like a skewered bullfrog bull frog why a woman can ean hit bit on a laide ride faddle faddie aa easy eaby as on it a chair that Is ia if bhe bhe she know how hofto to ridd rido at all and if slie sile bhe she has hlis no sa on a hone horse while on one ope of the maun maus saddies saddles saddies she Is wretched utterly wretched and miserable for fe near fear arthut that she is making a ridiculous object of berbela hen ben elf eif in bome some way and she is incessantly leaning to one kide lide side or the other to see if her ankles dono dont show or her boots boom are ngi unlaced or something else and while deeply engaged in guch auch observations her i back is ia bent beut into unbecoming roundness her bat bobbin bobbing u ab a and d down and herself wit with h it ani and hir her left 1 ift eft hand holding tight light to the pommel no difference dimmie diffie she could makel make in dress would rid a woman of the idea that she made a spectacle of herself and consequently a ride would become beco a torture then too new now women have pretty feet ree tand and do you suppose A a woman is hi going deliberately to work to exhibit those feet to an admiring multitude la the language of solomon not much now for instance lb stance said article in the examiner quotes grace greenwood to prove the beauties of his theory if he be had been as aa 1 I was at yosemite and bad seen grace green greenwood wood mount and rido rida bloomer fashion he would have refrained from the quotation she came out 0 the verandah and the tile old hone horbe was backed hacked up till all she bhe had to JY 10 was to sit alt down with one foot each ihde the horse honse then the q the train arted istiA tr ted ed aud and she letting the relus relna fall tail loosely over the horses neck employed both hands bands in holding ouy ony on while with every motion she rolled to one side or the other ever and anon annn she would make a feeble dash for the bri die only to give a weak squeal and clasp the pommel again as a step of the hone home from one rock to another seemed to trender breuder tr render renden her position insecure indeed she rode much as children i ride astrid astride e long along a plank which they call a 11 teeter 11 holding on with both hands bands her shoulders rounded and her feet hanging banging limp and useless by the horses side she rode rodo so and no other way and recollecting what a figure nhe she cut wants us all to do so too and insinuates that we were born for the express purpose of riding us other otherwise wilee we would bave have been born mermaids and doue done with it you a one that have hilve guarded closely ast as the grave I 1 rode that way myself when I 1 wen into the valley III il never neven do t again when I 1 wali wait a child I 1 could hop on the baek back or of the wildest mustang mus taug tang and with a rope ro e twisted around hia his nose byway by way of bridle pl dieda bauh bh away bare backed the tb wind sweeping bf by my brow as aa we rode ilku like the gale owing blowing b my hair back and flushing my cheeks cheeka fiery red I 1 could not have ridden so BO astredo astride ast ride rido but when I 1 heard beard so inmany many fearful restful tales of the taran sers sera ers of yoh yot emita trail I 1 gave ur up to the advice of an old lady and rode bloom er fashion as they politely term it up there I 1 immediately felt that I 1 had made a tu mis la fake fako I 1 felt aa ir if T idere were 0 of my moy sphere and I 1 knew thab that my 1115 ankles showed my feet too and vand they W were ere number r sevens evens and I 1 kne knew w or thought I 1 knew that the gentlemen who were behind us ua were passing unfavorable comparisons be tween me moe and a galvanized pawl palm polay wog while with every downward step of ormy army my horse horpe I 1 felt as if I 1 would purely surely go over his head heat for us I 1 scorned corned the Ti pommel ommel besides it was an american addle faddle and there jaent any worth of to get at the exact way fay IL a woman feels on a u mans saddle take talce a plano piano stool hitup it up to the hig big highest en notch put it in one ue of these sand band sandhill hill hili stump carts and sit on the top or of the stool with your our oun feel reet dangling down each side and let iet et the cart be driven over newly plowed gro grouns urill you will then understand how it feela feels grace greenwood hlas hiag a perverted taste if she likes to ride in that fashion but on the whole she furnished fun fir a hundred people and und so it was a benefit be i ne and not one of us eyer ever thought of bf comparing her to a mermaid not eyen exen when she bhe was flopping in a mud bath at for which she should be i dul dui duir duly Y thankful we mil mii kno know w that she is not furnished with a nibby tall tali only fit for riding ailing andeway Pid sid eway eways forwe had pretty 1 substantial occult proof to the contrary but I 1 don dont tsay say but what I 1 think she might look better or tor the change I 1 dont say all this out of feminine 81 spite brite ite against the lady for personally pei pel I 1 admire her for a true woman and think sho is a good writer and all that but when she bhe wants us to make wake guylor guys of ourselves w selves it Is too much olive harper in st louis globe |