New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-01-20
NEW YORK's HoRsEY GIRLS.

NEW YORK's HoRsEY GIRLS.
"F1aneur'' tells Of the Equine and Femi-
nine Beauties of the Heiress-Love.
Letter to San Francisco Argonaut.
The beautiful women of New York
have made the horse-snow a success.
Its first season was not much of a 60,
because people had no idea that the
show would prove one of the fashion
able events Of the year. The second
season, however, settled it for ever
more, for it was then discovered that
it was more OF a show for beautiful
women than for blooded horsefesh.
The show opened this year with every
thing fully understood, with an admir-
able field of horses, and the most stun
ming exhibit of handsome women that
the town has ever seen. They went
there in platoons, and they carressed
the horses, talked with each other,
nodded brightly here and there, and
looked SO healthy, wealthy and
wise, that the men stood round,
ten rows deep, and stared at
them with child-like and abiect
alteration. It is the fashion
able thing now for women to affect
horses, and the most dashing, brill
liant, and influential Of all the cliques,
into which New York society is divid-
ed is the hosey clique, which includes
the names of hard and fast riders, like
John D. Cheever, Center Hitchcock,
the Rutherfords, the Mortimers, the
Belmonts, Theodore Bronson, and
dozens of other yonng men whose for
tunes enables them to keep extensive
stables. Among the women OF the
clique are Miss Gertrude Cheever.
Miss Lucy Wrock, MISS Georgiana
Heckscher, and Mrs. August Belmont
Jr. Most of them are in the Rocka-
way hunt, and the feminine members
OF the organization have excited a
great deal OF talk recently through the
astonlshment that has been expressed
by some English visitors of distinction
at their daredevil and reckless riding.
It is said that nowhere in England can
be found such young, courageous, and
fearless women riders as those of the
Rockaway hunt. Members of this or
ganization are largely responsible for
the existence of the horse show. They
have supported it heartily and drawn
all New York in with them. All cliques,
jealousies, and petty and imposing
antagonisms are forgotten when the
horse-show week comes around and the
women of New York vie with one an
other to see which shall be most ad-
mired at the horse-show Twenty
thousand dollars in prize cups are o.
Tered this year, and horses OF every M
aginable distinction are on hand.
There ale SO many imported English
grooms lettering about Madison
Square Garden-at least seven or
eight hundred OF then-that the place
offers unusual attractions to the An
glomaniac. All the members or the
Canadian club are also on hand. The
latter is a club formed of Canadian
residents of New York, and they are
considerably more English than the
English themselves.
now that the fashionable world dis
plays a tendency decidedly the reverse
OF that which it retained few years
ago. Once it was proper for men to
cultivate a martial bearing. They he'd
their heads in the air, took manly strid-
IS held their shoulders back, and were
brisk and talkative. The proper thing
in girls at that time was the dropping
and willowy article. Ithadn' much ap-
petite, and it cultivated the habit OF
dropping it's lids over it's large blue
eyes. All this is very bad form now.
Men should droop a little, carry them
selves carelessly. and bend their heads
a trifle forward, if the five hundred
specimens on view at the horse-show
are to be taken as examples. Their
clothes should not fit too snugly,
their trowsers must be very wide, and
always freshly ironed, so that the
seems will show, just as they do in
trousers that have just come from the
tailor. From a glance at FIVE hun
bred OF these men, it will appear that
all otthem copied from the same mod
| Ell. Few of them wear whiskers
now, andnearly all are content with
a simple mustache. They wear high
hats with two-inch bands, about them,
black coats that are cutaway in front,
gray trousers, white over-gaiters, and
vanished boots. Add a pair of brick
colored gloves, a buckhorn stick, and
a red tie, and you have what would
appear to be absolutely correct in
New York at this particular time of
the year at the horse-show. It is
rather difficult to gain this informa-
ton, for no man seems to care for any
other man, and all eyes are turned on
the women. They walk like SO many
dashing dragons, with their chins
high in the air, their big eyes open to
the full limit of the law, and their mag
nifcent shoulders and busts encased
in tailor-made jackets. They stare at
the men with superb indifference, and
walk about as if the world owed them
homage: and must render it in spite OF
everything.
All the girls in town seem to have
caught this air ofmagnifcentself
placency, and their assurance carries
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