Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-08-05

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them handle your best horse i9 were
the questions put TO gUod-uatured liv1
cry keeper by an Interested party,
aDrive r. he answered. ~ should
think they c0ulds but as toletsing them
have our best horses. that Is another
matter. We have horses ia our stables
few men could drive. We keep thai
we call safe horses Iof ladies nse~-the
kind that will 60 anywhere IL you just
guide them -old family nagS. SENSIBLE
senough TO trot along and mind their own
business end moi fret If they are pulled
two ways at once"
"Do you object to letting horses out
for women 10 drive 7"
'sNo, indeed; we have from twelve
to fifteen ladies a week come TO Us for
horses, and we give them good ones.
too, but somehow, women fret horses
when they drive them, SO we don't care
TO give them high spirited animals.
Now, look at that sorrel, pointing 70
one frosls which The harness had just
been removed. a"T lei that horse this
morning 10 bit Of woman with wrists
no bigger than my two fingers. Idldn't
want to let it 20. because it's such an
ugly puller. l told her Il had mouth
like iron, but she said she wanted.to
take an old aunt that was visiting her
out to see the town and she drove of
quietly enough. But half an hour later
saw her coming down Woodward av-
enue like a streak OF lightning, every
body running TO get out Of the way and
the old aunt hanging on for dear life.
She Just had the lines wound around
those little. wrists and braced .her feet
on The dashboard, and when she came
10 a corner whisked around il on one
wheel. The rig came in all right, but
that horse won't get his breath for a
week."
'Do they often meet With accidents
aud have smash up
"No. Ii is curious, but woman will
take a team through . dozen hair
breadth escapes and bring il back all
right. We have any amount of trouble
with men, who take our best rigs, get
on spree, andbreak things all to pieces.
A woman is either more cautious, o.
she will call upon every man in sigbl
TO help her out Of the scTape. They
are more apt TO lose their heads IN a
crowd or collision, but there Is most al-
ways some SPECIAL Providence ct hand
TO help them. If you notice, the most
disastrous runaways happen when some
man has the reins.
Further talk developed the fact that
women were not .cOnsideraie in their
management of' horses. They forget
TO blanket them in winter and TO tie
them IN the. shade IN summer. They
sometimes, use the sFeins asshitch8ng
straps, and kaye n settled dislike 10
learning proper names for harness. Not
one m bundled could tell The differ
ence between. The .s1rcingle and the
martiugale, or had the least idea 10
v hich end of the animal tle crupper
belonged: and II compelled to dIvest a
horse Of its trappings would undo eve-
ry buckle in the service. and take the
collar over the animals head: . Ill of
which the intelligent beast would SUBJ
nit. as if charmed by being steadily
talked TO during the process in the
witching tones Of woman's voice.
All this may be a libel on the sex,
but it is certainly true that when an old
family horse, with a ten-minute gait,
comes see-sawing down the street with
comically, reckless ar Of running
away, woman's head looks out from
under the buggy top, woman's hand
guides the steed in its eccentric orbit,
and woman's voice shouts in distinct
tones ssWh-o. a-a 90 at the same mo-
ment that the reins are jerked and the
whip applied, while pedestrians scud
to the sidewalk ia terror. However IL
able a woman Is to run over Cow or {
street car, she wIlI always stop or turn
out for a baby. This II one lof the IN
stincts of her maternal heart to-which
even sgei upl gl-a-n-gP' i sacrificed.
ALBANY Evening Journal,