Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-29


When he pulled up he had no idea they had
| done anything special, and no one was more
surprised than he at the time when we gave il
| to him.
IF understand the value of toe weights they
! were to bring her nearer to Aldine's speed,
yet with those she lifted her mate along and
did her own pace as well. Plucky little lady. y
Marfd has not been driven this season, but
soon will be. Meanwhile she stands in her
room and looks ont the back door on Seth
street. Day and night she is cared for by this
groom. But nothing that relates to her is done
except by Mr.. Bonner's express order. Near
by is Rarus. who seems still to have recollec-
tions that he was once king of the turf and cost
$4,000. He has not and never had the lovea-
BILE nature of Maud 8. In his proudest days he
was cross and his ill-nature has now settled in
his hind heels, which we skirt with caution, for
they are active, though sore. Rarus is never
driven on account of these sore feet, which Mr..
Bonner is caring for. He is walked on the track
outside the stables. which is prepared with re-
gard to his tender feet
Across the stable is the stall in which Dexter
died. and from which he was taken to his grave
on the Tarrytown farm. Here also are
Pickett" one Of Mr.. Bonner's favorites, bred
on the farm. a four-year-old who has made %,
and some two-year-olds who have already ac-
complished 40. These are but a handful of the
blooded stock which Mr.. Bonner keeps and
breeds at his country stables.
COL. LAWRENCE KIP's STABLES.
Talk of Dutch cleanliness, Of the traditional
kitchen floor off which one may eat, neither
can surpass the spotlessness, the shining neat
ness of Col. Lawrence Kip's stables. There
can be no house in town inhabited by humans
SO fiawless as this cheerful, spacious home of
May Dawn and Katrine. The waxed floor is
fawless as q mirror. The heavy hemp carpet
on which the horses walk from their rooms to
the door is swept and garnished, really gar
nished, for an ornamental border of straw
fringe borders it. The stalls are thickly laid
with straw, scent-laden and shining as If just
from the threshing floor. The stablemen have
an art of arrangement all their own, and it il
turned in at the edges as skilifully as hem
learned at sewing school. The carriage wash
is covered with large and handsome red rug
and shade of all that is decorative. The car
riage wash is faced three feet high with Mexi-
can onyx. The plate-glass stable doors and
windows, the faucets, glass and brass every
where are shining.
MY stable is my yacht" said Col Kip.
The comparison is good, for it is AS profusely
and nattily rugged and beautifully tended as a
yacht Col Kip has been a military man, and
he brought to his stable all his military habits
of order and precision. Every morning at
O'Clock he is at his stables, and everything is to
be ready for inspection. Every implement
must be clean and in place. We are casual
visitors and the hour is early, but as Col Kip
opens the door and throws the light on dark
corners and shelves, cedar closets, and what
not everything is according to line and plum
met. What there is not for convenience he
has invented. Swinging like brackets are
gilded spikey frames. This is one of his in
ventions, intended to hold the harness as it is
removed from the horse and the ends are COW
cred with rubber that the harness may not be
scratched
1t was Col Kip who suggested the prize Of
fered at the horse show for the best-equipped
road-wagon-a prize that he himself took last
year. This, too, seems to have come out of
that military training which bids men prepare
for emergencies.
''The idea is that man shall carry with him
all that he needs, but as 1 suggested in the
catalogue. not everything that he owns. For
example, he wants his horse blankets, his own
lap robe, goggles. pick to remove a stone that
may get lodged in hoof, &c. Such things that
"a man may happen to need, but is likely to for
get," Col. Kip explains.
Col. Kip's precautions go farther. 81 always
have two single road wagons that may have
one in any case. That one 1 will begin to use
this fall. The other will go to Brewster, who
will take it in part exchange for new one."
They are spidery affairs and seemingly not
much more than red wheels. They weigh 155
pounds and have all extra strength conferred in
the axles.
The favorites of the stable are May Dawn and
Katriile. dark bays. Katrne is the half sister
of Guy, whose record of all makes him the
formidable rival of Maud s, whose time many
people think he will yet equal. as he is years
younger. She is a beautiful little bay mare.
with slender aristocratic legs and an air of
trimness and tautness which again suggests
yachting SMILES She comes up promptly to
be petted and cubs her nose in that affection
ate manner which. as Alfred Wallace says. is
the documentary form of kissing once practiced
by humans. She has no record, having never
been trained for speed. She is simply for her
masters delight, and says Col. Kip, lit would
seem a spoilt day if, from to 6, l was not out
with May Dawn and Katrine."
May Dawn is but a shade different in color
and lives next door with a small fox-terrier,
who plays in and out among her heels like a
kitten. Her portrait is in the large room and
Katrine is to sit for pendant to an artist next
month.
Col. Kip has quite picture gallery, includ-
ing ETHEL Medina" whom he once owned, and
who was the late lanented "Maxey Cobb's''
great mate.
The only racer in the stable is Bay Tom, who
has record of 2:25. but does not commend
himself to feminine eyes on account of his ar
chitecture. which Col. Kip describes 'hippy,'
and which no amount of corn and oats can
overcome. MARY Gay HUMPHREYs.