Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-04
MARY JEwETT.
A Girl who Believes She Can Ride
Horses Twenty Miles an Hour.

ST. PGul Pioneer-Press.l
Just four miles from Litchfeld, on
the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
railway, is the farm of Mr.. Jewett,
the father If the young lady who has
accepted the challenge Of Mrs. Bella
Cook, of California, to ride the TWEEN
ty-mile a c at the coming MinDeapo-
lis exposition. This is to be one of
the great events of the year in racing
circles, partially because of the heavy
stakes $4,000 pending, but more be-
cause it marks a e era in sporting
circles, and starts a new medium
through which the women of the day
may expend their superAuous vitality.
found Miss Jewett at the home Of
her father, busily engaged in house.
bold duties common TO the female
members of the better class of farmer
homes. Miss Jewett is a product Of
Minnesota, physically aud mentally.
Imagine a woman Of twenty, average
height, of beautiful rounded form,
modest in appearance, aud, at the
same time, with a demeaDor of perfect
courage, self poise and self-owner-
ship. She has light brown hair, blue
eyes, and a cheerful, honest, winning
manner. Handsome according to ma
lures own recognized standard, With
the touches of the san upon her cheek
and the color Of the cherry sn her
lips-a woman that would be marie ed
attractive" in any community and
with any surroundings. She met me
cordially, aud was eager to leara if |
knew aoyCbipg of her competitor, Mrs.
Cook, OF California. With but litiie
putsuasion she US induced to give
me a specimen of her kill as a horse
woman. A horse wa brought to the
door, saddled, and without assistance
she vaalted easily into Che saddle, and
was away like the wind. While she
was gone on a twenty-minute ride ]
learned Fl om members of the family
that she had literally grown up on
horseback Her father is a wealthy
farmer, aud always has a number oil
horses on his well-stocEed farm.
When she was less than a dozen years
of age she would go down into the
fields. select her favorite lamb from
the flock Of sheep, and then manage
in some unaccoUntable manner 10
mount an unbroked colt. sans bride.
sans saddle, and come ~galloping back
10 the house with her pet in her arm
to the infinite terror Of the rest of the
household. Candor compelled the
admission that in those halcyon youth,
full escapades she always rode man
fashion, with one leg on each side o.
the horse-not so graceful, perhaps
but far safer and more agreeable fol
a young miss Of twelve years. Before
she was sixteen her father had learned
to rely upon her for breakingthe colts
reared on the farm, both to the sadd't
and 10 harness. Every horse on thu
farm knows her" proudly remarked
the father, "and if they ever have any
disagreement with her they have alst
learned to respect her" In thi
manner her equestrian education ha
been obtained, until Il -day she state
, that she is more at ease and feels SAT
err on the back Of a most fraction
horse than she does on the groun,
/, with Der feet under her. Since yb,
race became a fixed event, Miss Jew
, EFT has taken DO general course 0
training, but has relied entirely upon
her daily experience since earl,
childhood. "All | have asked" sh,
remarked, SIS as good horses as M,
opponent and a strong saddle; | viii
attend to the rest"