Eureka Reporter | 1906-06-22 | Page 5 | Women Know How to Drive

WOMEN KNOW HOW TO DRIVE many are now informed as to han adling of horses and can be trusted it Is not many years ago that any thing in the shape of a horse was supposed to be good enough for a woman says country life in amer lea it was the popular idea among those who knew that given a good horse a woman could ruin it in less than a year all this has changed among the intelligent women however nowadays the women know how to handle a horse that is those who use their brains and have watched the real horseman at his work so this question of sex is not as important as it was at one time of course there are thousands of women who know little or nothing about the horse but with the great number of horse shows all over the country their education la progressing fast and it will not be long before almost any horse with a reasonable disposition can be safely trusted to a woman and be driven or ridden without damage at the same time there are ladles and men s horses not due to the fact that the animals will be handled by the differ ent sexes but because they require different characteristics according to the persons in charge of them