The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-08

| VuefS vs. the safety anu careful training
CHIC horses, SAYS writer in the New
FIX SIR. Only horse of strong will
peer. wide intelligence and disciplined
news cain bear with equanimity the sue.
eesSn of surprises " sweet girl manages
10 "'nge for him when she mounts for
the Nst time. The first mounting is
lIohi block, and rider has only to sit
uoWh h little spring TO be in her
plnce' Y there are something like u hun.
uieu w" 4 girl manages to take that
niue sprg and take it exactly wrong
oeiore 81 is in the saddle. Then it
taxes an aist to arrange a girls skirts
ah9 TWO ,looms to hold the horse
wui'e III lSionc. When she doesn't
,oreec TO ubook the little loop that
lo.uS iler arg in the back she sits down
SqunIG'y ON tN fullness that should go
oNer li'e pohlel, or gets so helplessly
wounu up III III skirts that no one but
lle ni,eeh'puZz man can ever yet her
out awe. Hersaddie Is never exactly
riRnt' her suTruppither too long or too
snort, ana she hects and fuses and
nesties ana glggleSnd gets pink in her
cheeks and lot ofrofanitv in the heart
of the groom befof she Is finally salts.
fled and rides into Il ring, only to come
back again in nine Cses out of ten for
another horse or sadd or something.
Mounting from thooonnd il vet
more difficult feat an(usuallv the first
few trials end in disaste Ono hand on
the saddle, the other onthe shoulder of
the MASTER his arm abot her waist. her
foot in his hand. and TIN count one.
two, three, and she spring only to land
where she least expects, vile the horse
quivers and shivers in patiet submission
and bears it. The favore mode of
riding is after the English stle, and the
master rides round and roun with the
pupil, correcting, criticising he position,
and suggesting such ideas asshe NAV
find beneficial. Suddenly, without
warning, he chirrups to the hose and
away they go, his hand underneath her
elbow to teach how and when 70 rise
from the saddle as the horse hunds
Faster and faster they fly, and white and
whittier grows the girls face through the
nameless fear that will come and must
be dispelled by heroic treatment.
naturally graceful woman who is
not afraid of q horse and understands
how to manage one, can learn to ride
well in a very few lessons, but a timid
nervous woman requires considerable
practice to accustom herself to the ter.
rifying motion Of the powerful animal
she rides.
81 practiced months and months, "
said pretty young girl in gray striped
habit, ito learn to rise in the saddle ac-
cording to the masters teaching, but /
just couldn't do it at all, and l was lame
all over, until one day papa said: why,
lust sit still and let the horse throw you, )
and in ten minutes | had it, and have
never had any trouble since"
All this time that the young riders had
been Hopping and tossing and jerking
around in the rink, o tall, vigorous
young woman had been drawing on her
gloves, and pink-cheeked girl in the
corner was reading a love letter, waiting
for their horses and scolding because
some one whom they called Bert couldn't
come and ride with them, 81 they could
go out in the park, and when the horses
finally came, two handsome, white
faced, slender-necked beauties, they flew
down the steps, one foot in the hand of
the groom, spring, and they were in
the saddles, every fold of their habits
falling into exactly the correct and
proper place with no fldgeting, and into
the rink they dashed ON the prancing,
dancing horses, flying round and round
and across the circle, striking terror to
the hearts of their timid sisters, while
the fresh, soft color sprang TO the riders
cheeks and the pretty brightness to their
eyes with the swift exercise.
"How is 1t that you seem to have so
much less trouble with your dress in
than the others ?" asked an
inquisitive matron as the girls came pant
ing up the stairs.
ooh, don't know, unless it is because
they were fitted on real live horse up
here at the stable. A great many of the
ladies insist ON their tailors coming to
the stables to fit the dresses now. A
wooden charger isn't like live horse
to mount, you know"
When the beginners lessons are ended
for the day comes the glorious dashing
music ride by all the school together.
crash of music, tramping
OF hoofs, tossing of silky names and
glossy curving necks, aud sixty horses,
all saddled and bridled, dash out into
The rink, and half as many women are
trying to mount the eager, paving, quiv-
ering steeds, and twice as many men are
helping them to the best of their poor
skill. The ladies fuss and twist and
wrestle, strrups are shortened or length
ened, girths are frightened, the music
crashes on, the pretty horses stand i'm
patiently, with quivering ears and di.
lated nostrils.
The queenly beauty goes out to mount,
but pouts in the prettiest imaginable
way as she is led along the block, but
smiles with lips and'eyes as a fair haired
Adonis, anticipating her wish to mount
from the ground, springs down from the
block and holds up his arms invitingly
to her. Twenty horses are crowded to-
gether in little space cavorting and
paving in Impotence and excitement,
but down among their trampling hoofs
she flies fearlessly, and with quick,
light spring she is beaming down into
his face as he fits her foot into the stir
rup and tightens her saddle-girth then
-lings himself on a horse, and round and
round the big rink they all revolve in
steady measured pace to the quick,
.hrobbing music.
Sweet girls ride into the ring alone all
but hardly are they inside the
gate before some mounted knight with
lplifted hat joins them and two and two
hey dizzily wheel, now to the right,
now to the left, divide into two circles,
meet and come up the centre four abreast,
wheel again into the circle of four, meet
md march up eight abreast, separate
)nce more, wheel, meet, and sixteen
horses heads come tossing up in line, as
unlike in expression AS tho sixteen bright
faces above them, and round they wheel
again in pairs.
Then they all form in one straight line,