Show NG BOTH w professor elliott cons reasons in behalf of women old riding habit must go Is an old fashioned out of date monstrosity which the hew woman is discarding copyright ISY 1 y the author both ho answer to the question on which bido of a hordo should a woman rule biow well they lide and how they looka so I 1 exclaim n I 1 eit sinding on abo veranda of he hotel in hos springs S D and seo the women both young and old go by on horseback riding astride like the men I 1 am a from the east and ho novelty of thought at BOTH SIDES tracts my attention but that is because I 1 am a conventional old fogy hopelessly behind alio times in the progressive west chero everybody rides and the women know how to rido as well as tho men that is something they never learned to do till hey let the old riding habit go and got into the new habit of riding as hey ought to it is saturday afternoon in hot springs aal the principal street is thronged thron ged with town folks and country folk shiao walk and some drive but most of them ride hero comes a couple of the best riders in the world in from the stock range swinging along at an easy hand gallop man and borso one they personify the poetry of motion ir ease grace speed strength and safety A moment more and they are ont of sight here come two more of them but no As these sweep by like a breeze I 1 perceive they are two girls riding astride like the men and like tho men riding with ease grace speed strength and safety this Is the first time I 1 have seen anything of the sort and I 1 watch them till they are butof sight but that is because I 1 am an old fashioned tender toot nobody else notices bliem nobody turns tho licad to look at them nobody says anything and why because it is fashionable in hot springs and in a good many other parts of the west tor women to rido sensibly and dress sensibly for that purpose fancy the sensation of such a spectacle in new york it some woman should come bantering cantering cant ering along fifth avenue on both sides of a horse I 1 but why not BO on a horse as well as on a bicycle the only reason is that women can ride a horse sidewise but cannot possibly cy clo in such an awkward and ridiculous manner thatis simply thanks to the horse which can stand up under what the machine cannot bear but it is no credit to the rider who turns the head now to take a look at the flying wheels and beela of the woman cyclist nobody and just aa soon as tho new equestrienne appears in the east she will find she has the right of way abo wheel by a mechanical paradox has proved to be the entering wedge with power to split conventional prejudice if a few sensible city mount horses as they now do bicycles they will soon find them fashionable loaders of a much needed reform the period of probation would be too brief to try their nerves much and the triumph would bo complete the men would tumble to it after a brief stare because women look so well riding astride the women would take to it naturally if for no other reason and thoo who now ride the wheel would not wen have to buy a now dress because the cycling costume would answer jast the purpose tho new equestrienne makes the strongest strop gest possible comans womans right to ase her lower limbs and clothe them to euit her purposes why she should swathe them together for walking and for riding swaddle them in something like her original baby slip on a large scale are things no fellow can find out or woman cither there is no reason why a woman should sit askew and asland on a borso except that some women havo been forced to do so for some time in some coun trita of which ours is one there is every reason why a woman should sit squarely arely on a horson back and hold on with her knees the way men do ja many or most countries they havo always done so and do so still it Is the natural way to ride there is nothing whatever in the difference between a mans and a comans womans figure to account for abo awkward uncomfortable ungraceful unsafe and oven perilous in which our women aro they must bo good natural riders not to cometo grief often CT than they do if there bo any difference between men and in conformity with a horbes back it is decidedly in favor of the female figuro she can taka if anything a better seat than a man and got a better grip on the bho abma hotter built that han a man choso whoso prospective brides who need not be caught unless they want to be I 1 lately rodo with a lady who rode as I 1 did she was a good horsewoman in tho old way and tried the new way for the first time on occasion she eaid abe never knew what riding was before for comfort and security and she certainly looked well it tho horse could bavo his say in this zeatter za atter I 1 fancy his enthusiasm on the subject would bo great A horse hates a sidesaddle ide saddle because it hurts him and ia naturally latu rally afraid of long skirts because 10 does not understand them women ire said to bo harder on horses than men jt ia tru ask any liveryman ual 13 m my they no askea and ts tsar nr with heir legs twisted awkwardly to bide and nothing ill their eliat ats a hack aud n us the saddle palls and drags and galad the horse it is likely to turn if it bo not cincher cinched BO tight that tho poor animal cannot comfortably it is as bad for tho horse as corsets for tho woman A sidesaddle is nu abomination ita proper place is neither under u woman nor over a horse but in a of machines like tho thumbscrew the boot iho wheel tho rauk and tho daughter tho dlo must go with other bad riding habits somo fair reader may think this is allwell enough when I 1 am on the horse but bow abent getting en and especially getting off again it bo awful no certainly not half so awful as the performance in which yon are now a star actress with a full stock company for tha benefit of tho whole neighborhood you appear in your stovepipe hat and tight waist holding up your black baby slip with both hands somebody is holding your by the head and punching him in tho stomach to make him stand up close to a chair which very likely he refuses to do by about a baid then somebody elso comes to your assistance and gets you in hia arms more awkwardly than on boino other occasions not knowing exactly what to do nest and you give a gasp and a gulp and a jump and he gives a heave and if things are simultaneous enough you are dumped half way on the side of tho horse with your skirts batched bitched so tight you can get no farther then you wriggle and hunch yourself about till you manage to get your right knee over tho pommel ant cannot find the stirrup for your left foot then ho fumbles foolishly about tho folds of your drapery till he finds abo stirrup and the foot and sticks them together then somebody hands you your whip and homebody else puts tho bridle in your hands yen are really on horseback and after abo rido you repeat tho process hind end foremost all becaro yon have been taught the wrong way to get on a horse tho wrong way to stay on a hoise and tho wrong way to get off a horse yon aro at the mercy of ome man to begin with and to end with and at the mercy of the borso from beginning to end notice that girl coming out of the store in hot springs she hitched her horse to a post when eho went in by throwing the bradlo over the post the saddle is just like tho ones the men ride stirrup leathers a trifle shorter sho throws the bridle over the horcos neck md holds it in tho same left hand tast grips the pommel the other and is free for thero are no to hold up she juffe lays it on the cantlo a moment puts her left foot in the stirrup and vaults into her seat tho right foot coming down into abo off stirrup with perfect easo and accuracy after no ungraceful swing of one limb over the horses quarters she is away in an instant and when sho is ady to dismount she reverses tha ay of getting on just as a man docs and why bot do so yourself COVES A VALUABLE GOOSE for and contained a diamond mrs bobert of east thirty second street new york bought a booso home days ago from her family butcher and paid ago tor it both mrs bal and the butcher considered abo price a fair one but when mrs Boscn thal got home and began to pluck the feathers and os amino the goose in detail she found that it was almost as valuable as the good old bird iu the fairy talo that had a pleasant habit of laying golden eggs for while preparing abo bird for the oven she felt a hard substance in the interior which upon examination appeared to her to be very much like a diamond with a small fragment of gold attached to it as though it had been set in a ring A knowing friend to whom mrs ro lonthal took the day told her that the gem was a diamond of very high quality worth probably mrs rosenthal lias been baying geese ever since and she always takes charge of tho preparation and cooking herself the butcher has raised his prices HE WILL ARBITRATE tills enoch arden exiaa agreed to peaceable measured Meas urea about years ago john pearson of Eo W va married miss anna bewly after a honeymoon of three months pearson wont hunting one day and failing to return in a reasonable time was mourned as dead about three months ago mrs was married again to franklin seals a well to do young man living near her homo they lived together most happily till a few days since when pearson ant in an appearance the woman explained the situation to him antl ordered him to leave and not annoy her further but pearson was not to bo put off that way and declared his intention of relieving the bigamous aspect of the comans womans situation by murdering the new husband on sight seals was warned and kept away till pearson could be persuaded to act reasonably the two husbands are to meet both agreeing not to his wife in the meantime and see if some amicable arrangement cannot be devised to be acted upon baltimore american Thoron Ehly A incident was enacted the other day on the paris font dea arts A well dressed man who displayed no emotion stopped a passerby pas sorby and handed him a bundle of bank notes remarking 1 I civo yon this money as a free gift uso it as yeu like I 1 can only bobo bopo that your life will be dioro happy than nibuo before the recipient could recover from his surp riso alie man had thrown himself into the seine and was drowned they do things in ahls would please stonecutters among the students at parkville Par kville college are gettig out tho material during their leisure time this winter for tho new observatory building which is to be erected there iu the spring kansada city star cant fool hear john bull succeeded in mizing tho russian bear as yet and the cli ances aie lie adver will ia iii anapolis news governor jones ua cancer it is discovered that governor jones bf nevada has cancer of the stomach and bis physicians sav ho recover the police department received a message tins afternoon ironi salt lake to arrest the progress of a westbound west bound gentleman wanted for forgery the officers were just in time to mis ahe train they telegraphed to the in corinne to detain the man there and silvey will go out by first train and bring him in A suit for divorce was filed in the second district by clias E durfer vs helen M the complaint atiat they married in sauna colorado that in 1892 alie defendant willfully deserted and abandoned alio plaintiff and lias without his consent continued 10 live apart from him wherefore he prays that the marria ao bond be dissolved annulled and for general relief |