Daily globe., 1883-08-12
THE HORSE REPORTED 3.

ne OeaSteS a Oe1ec0Se QeSeSoeOp OF Ess4 0esses
Fror the Chicago Tribunel
Society editor in?"
A rather thin young man withl very
tight pants, high collar, and a round
cloth cap of the style worn by bicycle
riders, had opened the door of The edi-
torial rooms and propounded tho 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,
I wouldn't have missed seeing the So
ciety editor for anything. What I
wanted to tell him about was very i'm
portant- really and truly it waa."
'1s Beatrice Perkins going TO Muk-
wonago for the summer again p asked
the horse reporter; because If 1ts any
thing about that, or South Side social
circles are in futter over theapproech-
ing nuptiaIs of prominent bene 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"
mo, it's nothing like that"
Nothing about several wel-known
society young men on the North Side
are about to organize a 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 dry-goods clerks 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" .--.
7 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 it a 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 quarrell"
who is Cholly?"
He is my roommate, you know.
We've been awful friends ever since he
lent me his mauve-colored pants two
years ago. Last Christmas gave him a
lovely pair of dove-colored silk sus-
nenders, and when my birthday comes
lie is going to give me real sweet pair
of silk stockings with my monogram on
them [ wouldn'ta for anything In the
world have any trouble occur between
Cholly and I, because we've been in
the threads together for nearly a 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.
I hardly ever buy lemonade without
asking Cholly to have some of it. But
we're awfully puzzled about this mat
ter l told you about. GhQlly says the
gentleman should always offer the lady
his right arm, but / don't think so. I'm
going to take a splendid young lady
out for a boat-ride next Wednesday
evening, and that's how we came to tall
about it.
well" said the horse reporter, 'Sthi.
what-shall-we-do-wi -with-ou our-girls business
is pretty complicated matter. There
are good many things to be sonsid.
cred, and the best authorities have de-
cided that no absolute rule in regardtc
what arm lady shall take when walk
ing with o gentleman can be laid down.
It depends good deal on the gait o!
the girl. I have seen some shy, de-
mure, please-do-not-say- -piano-leg-wher
Tm-around young creatures that would
carry man all over the sidewalk If you
happened to walk them in front of g
millinery store and had them hitched ur
on the off side; and then there are
others who walk in corn-on-my-little.
toe style. They're daisies. They sort
of drift down the street sideways like 8
One-legged-duck, and keep stepping or
your ankles and acting as if you were
the first of a fight of stairs that the,
would like to climb but couldn't. 1
nice square gated girl that goes straigh
ahead, and doesn't lunge around ant
make you think every minute that she'
going to break her check-rein the mex
dive will do we'll enough on either side
but with the hen+in-a-gsle-of-wind kin,
it's better to keep them on the left sid
all the time, because you can fend 'er
off more naturally"
"Then you think either way is allow
able?" asked the young man.
Wlo, J;5 @,o,1 co., ~,