Evening journal., 1888-12-06
: THE RIDING SCHOOLS.
WHERE SOCIETY SPENDS PART OF
GJTs TIME WHEN SUMMER IS OVER.

ing TO Music
The base Of all riding 'ssons Tor beginners
is the safety and careful trasl ing OF the
horses. Only horse Of stronS. VIII power,
wide intelligence and disciplined nerves can
bear with eouaninity the successis N OF sur
prises a sweet girl Fnanages 70 ar uige Tor
him when she mounts for the nrst l. me. Inc
first mounting Is from blockt ana rluer
has only =, sit down with a little spring 70
be in he Slace, bat there are something ilke
q hui ,dfed Ways a girl manages . EaAg tHHt J
i de spriytg and TAX" y - ,ono oe,ore
she Is ip the saddle. Then it takes an artist
10 arrange a girls skirts and two grooms to
hold the horse while it Is done, When she
doesn't forget to unhooli the little loop that /
holds her dress In the back she sits down
squarely on the fullness that should go over
the pommel, or gets SO helplessly wound up |
In THO skirts that no one but the ffSen puz-
zls man can ever get her out alive. Her sad
die is never exactly right, har stirrup either |
too long or too short, and she iidgets and
fuses and nestles and giggles and gets
pink In her cheeks and n lot Of imprecation
and profanity IN the heart Of the groom be-
fore she is finally satisfied and rides into the
ring, only to come back again IN nine cases
out Of ten for another horse or saddle or
something.
Mounting from the ground is a yet more
difficult feat, and usually the first few trials
end in disaster Ono hand on tho saddle, tho
other on Che shoulder of the master, his nrm
about her waist her foot in his hand, and
then count ono, two, three, and she springs
only to land where she least expects, while
the horse quivers and shivers in patient sub
mission and bears it. The favorite mode of
riding is inter the English style, and the
master rides round and round with the pupil
correcting, criticising her position, and sug-
costing such ideas as she may find beneficial.
Suddenly, without warning, he chirrups TO
her horse, and away they 90, his aand under
meath her elbow 60 teach how and when to
rise from tho saddle as the morse bounds.
Faster and faster they fly, and whittier and
whittier grows the girls faoa through the
nameless fear that will como and must be
dispeled by heroic treatment
naturally graceful woman who Is not
afraid of a horse and understands how to
manage one, can learn to ride well in a very
few lessons, hut n timid, nervous woman re-
quire considerable practice to nccustom her
self to the to hur terrifying motion OF the
powerful animal she rides.
II practiccd months and months,n said a
: pretty young girl in gray striped habit, Ito
+ learn 10 rise in tho saddle according to the
] masters teaching, but just couldn't do it at
p all and was lame all over, until one day
!, papa said; why, just sit still and let tho
! horse throw you, and i'll ten minutes / bad
u 1t aud have never bad any trouble since"
? An this timo that the young riders bad
4 been Topping and tossing and jerking arounl
= in the rink tall, vigorous young woman
p had been drawing on her gloves, and a pinl
y checked girl ia the corner was reading low,
letter, waiting for their horses and scoldins
because some one whom they called Ber
couldn't come and ride with them, So they
q could so out in the park, and when thl
y horses finally came, two handsome, whit
= faced, slender ueckod beauties, they flar
~ down tho steps, one foot In the hand Of TIN
~ groom, a spring. and they were ia tho sad
~ dies, overy fold 81 their habits falling int
n exactly the correct and proper place with ii
iidgoting, and into the rink they dashed o.
the prancing, dancing horses, flying roun
~ and round and across the circle, striking ten
IA ror TO the hearts Of their timid sisters, Will
OF the fresh, soft color sprang to the rider
rs cheeks and the pretty brightness to thei
.er eyes with the swift exercise.
~ Chow is il that you seem to have so muc
less trouble with your dress in mountin
than tho othersl n asked an inquisitive matro
as the girls came painting up the stairs,
IN "Oh / don't know, unless it is because the
es- were fitted on a real live horse up here at I'll
ar, stable. A great many Of the ladies insist 0
no. their tailors coming 10 the stables to tt Il
dresses now. A wooden charger isn't like
live horse TO mount, you know"
When the beginners lessons are ended fl
the day comes the glorious dashing mus
tet ride by all tho school together. Suddenly
crash OF music, a trampling Of hoofs a tos
per ing OF silky names and glossy curving neck
..HH NJ IL
~ dash cut into the rink, and half as mar
~ women are trying to mount the eager, pay
ioy- ing, quiverng steeds, and twice as mar
IS men arc helping them to the best of the
poor skill The ladies fuss and twist al
non wrestle, stirrups are shortened or lengthene
non girths are frightened, the music crashes o
,.,s the pretty horses stand impatiently, wi
an. | quivering ears and dilated nostrils. ~
cat queenly beauty goes out to mount, but pou
per in the prettiest imaginable way us she is !
aes along the block, but smiles with lips al
ewes as q fair haired Adonis, auticipati
her wish to mount from the ground, sprin
,,a down from the block and holds up his arr
III. invitingly to her. Twenty horses d
rs. crowded together in little space cavorti
40. and having In impotence and cxcitenel
do. but down among their tramplng hoofs
Vest dies fearlessly, and with quick, light spri
and she i beal,in9 down into Ms face a IN
A+AAN 49, AsN
IL, her foot into the stirrup and tightens
con saddle girth, then filings himself on q hor
Mn and round and round tie big rink they
ran. revolvo in steady measured pace to the qui
ideF- throbbing music.
$50 Sweet girls ride into the rim 8 alone all Z
lots lessly, but hardly are they inside the &
.,s@ before some mounted knight with uplif
ss " hat joins them, and two aud two they dir
i'm wheel, now to the right, now to the L
do divide into two circles, meet and come
tho center four abreast, wheel again into
Deal circles Of four meet and march up eli
a. 70 abreast separate once moro, wheel, ms
i i and sixteen horses heads come tossing NJ
~ ~ line, as unlike in expression as the sixt
~ bright faces above them, and round {
wheel again in pairs.
using Then they all form IN ono straight i
Blsc while the music beats the time, dash
NO ward the whole seventy Of them, in a sal
lac to tho leader, and the lesson is over, onl
'Ss'' few Of the bravest OF tho ladies remaining
ride for the rings, and only two Drawing
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