Show WOMEN WHO DRIVE COACHES noted whips among society women miss ogden miss barney W C whitneys Whit niece and others mrs alfred vanderbilt her husbands inseparable companion correct trappings for a smart coach perhaps the most picturesque adjunct to the fashionable life of the day ia the in great cities and more especially ally along the highways of sonic noted summer resort a coach and four bowling along resplendent with the gay toilets of the women and the li veries of the statuesque grooms is sure to be followed by what the cockney called ha mounting to hawe nothing else gives the same impression of wealth of luxury bif and of a general good time they are sufficiently common nowadays but twenty years ago there were none of them that is none of them correct in every particular for let no one think that the noble art of coaching is without its ore which regulates the smallest details of the turnout tiie jacc august belmont it was who first set abc fore the delighted and imitative american public the spectacle of a really truly coach horses properly matched learness li arness just right and grooms correct in their li veries down to the baat leaah button nearly a quarter of a century ago that was and today there more coaches and moro eagerness for i the sport twice over than abany other time 0 it is no light matter to choose 0 hoisea for an to thel ordinary common or garden spectator a coach h a jchick drawn to the ing of a horn by four horses but end less care taken in selecting the i forr they not be thoroughbreds of course or they would never bo able to draw the load at steady trot nd alicy must be along a long vay removed from animals whose strength haa made them clumsy they must match to a hair in color and what is more difficult they must be equally well mated in disposition the wheelers should be just half a head higher than the leaders and most important of all they must be able to trot steadily unvaryingly their eight or ten miles an hour then with proper li veries aal harness the latter not too showy you havo a coach if yott can pay for it if the very thought of sitting aloft guiding four noble animals ia fascinato ang what must the realization bel no wonder the society women are turning their attention to coaching tac is a rather to be lamented fact that the american woman does not add any very marked degree of to her acknowledged charms if sport mess is to be considered a charm as few are going to in thee strenuous athletic days it took the coach to tempt them but now that a fair number of society women handle the ribbons in fine style others are taking lessons in the art no very easy one as may be imagined will ece more such turn ivoin eh on taft bocca than ever before of women drivers perhaps the very best is miss helen barney a favorite niece of william 0 whitney alio is shown in the illustration making a short turn in central park not many women drive in the city and miss birney h the head and front of these could anything be more dashing than the way in which ghe sits and handles i the ribbons keeping a watchful eye on her wheelers the whilst this summer liss barney will be at newport where she will spend much time on abo box scat of a coach miss barneis barneys Bar rival for the leadership in this sport among women is mm kate this enthusiast docs not drive in the city her stunning turnout ia ifko seen among he iuds about lennox every summer another lennox coacher of distinction is miss marioh A haven who is shown in chii illustration miss mills the daughter of mrs ogden mills is knotner cathu liast wio docs not to tool a coach even in the city one of the first converts to this delightful sport waa miss helen benedict who is now mrs tom JIa stings she was very devoted to it nd her teacher william cf tiffany was exceedingly proud of the style of hiis pupil around meadowbrook Meadow brook mrs james kernochan may be been on the box 0 a coachi and mrs J E S haddon and miss may bird arc yet others who tool along the roads of long island in the neighborhood of long branch in the fc ummer midd nonna monro may be seen guiding her four in good style mrs alfred vanderbilt is not a sporty woman but she is fond of going out with her husband who h devoted to coaching partly on account of hi health and one of the illustrations shows her sitting beside him on the box of his private coach there is no doubt say the horse authorities ties that interest in coaching and indeed all sorts of sport in which the horse a share is on the increase automobiles are many but they do not oust the from his traditional place in the affections of mankind and womankind too there more coaching jn philadelphia almost than in any other city and in the neighborhood of the brookline county club boston society people galore may be peen on alim r coaches it takes money but given a sufficiency of that there seem to be few better ways of spending it than in detling up a strictly correct coach and delighting not only the lucky drivers but alo the less fortunate wayfaring beauty man with i its style and PRISCILLA HOWARD |