Daily globe., 1883-08-12
THE HORSE REPORTED :.

he SesS]eS a DlSc1te QssestaO& OF EtsQ &etSA
Erom the Chicago Tribunal
Society editor in?"
A rather thin young man With very
tight pants, high collar, and a round
cloth cap of the style worn by bicycle
riders, had opened the door of the edi-
sorial rooms and propounded the above
question.
No." said the horse reporter, @the
society editor isn't in. Did you want to
see him ?".
20, awfully," was the reply why.
L wouldn't have missed seeing the So
ciety editor for anything. What I
wanted to tell him about was very i'm
portant- and truly it wasi."
Us Beatrice Perkins going TO Muk-
wonago for the summer again p asked
the horse reporter; because if Its any
thing about that, or South Side social
circles are in futter over theapproech-
ing nuptiaIs of a prominent belle and
one of our best-known young business
men, any one of us can attend to it
just as we'll as the society editor. Both
those sentences are kept in type"
"No, it's nothing like that"
Nothing about several well known
society young men on the North Side
are shout to organize riding-club, "a
it? We've get that all ready, too, bnt
we generally wait till about the middle
of June before printing it. Then it
means that some drygoods cAerks are
going to hire mustang ponies for one
consecutive evening, and spend the bal
ance of the summer getting over it.
I know all about North Side riding
clubs" -
I never ride" said the young man" !"
II wouldn't advise you to, unless you
take along postage stamp to make you
sit quietly on the horse"
What I want to know" said the
young manS "is whether in walking with
a lady gentleman should always offer
her his right arm, or make il rule to
have the lady on the inside of the walk,
no matter which arm she takes in &C
complishing this result. We've had an
awful argument about it over on Ash
land avenue, and Cholly and I nearly
had real serious quarreli'
"Who is Cholly?"
We've been awful friends ever since he
lent me his mauve-colored pants two
years ago. Last Christmas gave him q
lovely pair of dove-colored silk sus-
nenders, and when my birthday comes
he is going to give me real sweet pair
of silk stockings with my monogram on
them. I wouldnta for anything in the
world have any trouble occur between
Cholly and I, because we've been In
the threads together for nearly year" :"
I'm the what?"
"In the threads-in the thread de-
partment, you know--and we think
everything in the world of each other.
L hardly ever buy lemonade without
asking Cholly to have some of it. But
we're awfully puzzled about this mat
ter I told you about. ChQlly says the
gentleman should always offer the lady
his right arm, but I don't think so. I'm
going to take splendid young lady
out for a boat-ride next Wednesday
evening, and that's how we came to talk
about it.
Well" said the horse reporter, @this
what-shall-we-do-with-o h-our- business
is a pretty complicated matter. There
are good many things to be sonsid-
cred, and the best authorities have de-
cided that no absolute rule in regardrto
what arm lady shall take when walk
ing with q gentleman can be laid down.
It depends good deal on the gait of
the girl. have seen some shy, de-
mure, please-do-not-say- -piano-leg- when
rm-around young creatures that would
carry man all over the sidewalk if you
happened to walk them in front of q
millinery store and had them hitched up
on the off side; and then there are
others who walk in a corn-on-my-little-
toe style. They're daisies. They sort
of drift down the street sideways like a
one-leggedduck, and keep stepping on
your ankles and acting as if you were
the first of fight of stairs that they
would like to climb but couldn't. A
nice square gated girl that goes straight
ahead, and doesn't lunge around and
make you think every minute that sheaz
going to break her check-rein the next
dive will do we'll enough on either side,
but with the hen-in-a-gale-of-wind kind
it's better to keep them on the left side
all the time, because you can fend 'em
off more naturally"
"Then you think either way is allow
able?" asked the young man.