The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-18
rIovers and the Homo.

and tho Home.
Miss Ella Lytle in an essay before thu
Montgomery horticultural society Of
Missouri thus prettily treats the qucs-
ton Of house adornment:
The love OF the beautiful has been i'm
planted by a benificent Creator in every
human breast. 1t finds expression in the
admiration of all that is lovely and
charming in nature and art, and it
prompts men, and especially women, to
the adornment of their persons and their
natural surroundings.
The love of the beautiful has caused
men to travel thousands of miles, to en-
dure fatigue, hardship, and, even more,
to risk life itself that they might gaze
from some lofty mountain-peak, if but
an hour or two, upon the exquisite beauty
OF a panorama spread out at their feet
upon a real picture painted in indescrib-
ablc colors by God himself.
Flowcr-gardening has its charms. and
that class of gardening which deals with
landscape effects is delightful. 1 shall
not try to have a flower garden this sum-
mer for the want of space, but shall ex-
ct myself to have a few choice house
plants and some real nice mounds of
flowers in the yard. I find that early in
the morning before sunrise is the best
time to pull weeds, while the dew is yet
on the flowers and weeds. A woman can
very easily, and without much labor,
cultivate q few flowers, q suficiency for
home adornmcnt.
Woman was made to bcautify and grace
the home; to there perform that invisi-
bic work which, although less prominent,
is necessary both to life and happiness.
The home is, in the majority of cases,
her field of action; and the home is the
center Of y.
Then let each wife and mother have a
place at their homes for the cultivation
OF flowers. They will reward us with
both beauty and fragrance. The progress
OF our race is indicated by the care of
flowers. How they Irvine themselves to
our hearts when sad and alone.
A Now Wrinkle in Fashionable Society
The fertile brain of tho New York
girl who pants for new worlds to con-
qucr has hit upon fancy riding as a novel
form of amusement, which leaves tennis
and the gymnasium fur behind. Clubs
arc formed and a teacher engaged, who
has had, usually, an early career under
the canvas and is skilled in various intri-
cate branches of the equestrian art. The
pupils meet ut u riding ring, and New
York's fairest daughters arc taught to
hop gracefully into the saddle without
the assistance of a friendly hand, to dis
pensc with the saddle altogether, to ride
without bit or bride, to keep an un-
shaken seat while their pet horses are
trained to dance and bob and kneel and
jump. The New York girls begin by be-
ing GOOD horse women, says a corrc-
spondent of the San Francisco Post, and
take to their new pastime with natural
delight. Their success is dear to them,
and a great rivalry exists between the
various clubs which give afternoons" for
the purpose of %paralyzing each other
with envy. The riders wear the convcn-
tional short, dark habit and tall hat and
colors of the club on their whips. Parties
are made up for club afternoons, and the
invited guests arc permitted to raise to
any point of wild enthusiasm their fancy
may suggest. The men wear the club
colors i'll their buttonholcs, the girls tic
them on the handles of their parasols,
the ''Qucen of the Ring" receives frantic
applause and responds to e%ncores, and
the whole affair is novel, exciting and
something like the circus, except that it
is ultra questionable.
E.aIfD, Nofss