The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-20
ATEXAS GIRLIN GOTHAM.
soME OF HER IMPRESSIONS OF
The METROPOLIS.

ries of The West-The English Style
of Riding Horseback-A Few Sug-
gestions Well Worth Remembering
| About Horsemanship.
New YoRK, April, IS
It's the month before the month of May;
/ And spring comes slowly up this way.
| She gives us a smile, or even a hasty kiss,
then runs back like timid, OF an arch and
coquettish child, leaving US for days to
glum winter.
But we see her influence quite plainly
and permanently in the light and beautiful
spring costumes, and captivating hats and
bonnets, which are masses and bouquets Of
bloom, and in the millinery stores and de-
partments, regular gardens OF beauty,
The magnolias, too, in the parks and
squares are beginning TO show color, hang
| ing their heads bit and seeming to blush
at having come before their leaves These
magnolias are not the Phyrne Of the south,
who filings open her golden heart, so gentle
| and simple, disclosing the secret of his
| witchery to every passerby, and loading the
air with her delicious and prodgal per
| fumes; but the quaint and formal japanese
magnolias, with their oddly-shaped pink
and-purple blossoms, hung like candelebra
on the bare branches, and looking as if they
had just msterialized off rice paper fan,
or bamboo screen.
BUT, o, THE PRAIRIEs!
O,my heart, think of the prairies of West
Texas!
Don't know how the pastures are one
broad smile of beauty You would not
think, if you had never seen it, that
prairie could be 80 lovely and gracious
thing. Along the irrigating bitches and in
every bit of shadow, here and there, are
clustering and crowding blossoms of pale
pink, deep rose, purple, violet and pure
white while the broad gaze of the sun falls
on whole slopes Of vivid scarlet and acres
of clear dafPodil yellow, burning gold, the
very concentration and radiance of the
living sunshine itself. The mesquite trees
are just in leaf and look like tender green
willows. The myriad varieties of cacti,
those queer creatures, who, like some people
| know, assume thorny ways to be catch
ing, are unfolding their splendors of orange,
blood red and rosy pink; and they alone are
enough, in their blooming time, to glorify
| the whole region.
1t is the time of roundups, too, and of
sheep clippings and sheariDgs. Saddles are
recinched, new slicKers purchased, wagons
provisioned and the 'outfit" starts for the
''roundups." There is trampling of many
hoofs, tossing of myriad horns, a multfold
lowing and beating and the voices of the
herder, the dipper, the rustler, the brander,
the hot iron and the believing, protesting
maverick. are heard in the land.
The arroyos are up; the whole face of
earth laughs back to the laughing skies; the
air is wooing, seductive, intoxicating; the
beeves are sleek and fat. and your saddle
pony, that was turned into pasture last
week to rest up, is a broncho as a wild
mustang of the plains
Now, what delight TO get on him and
settle once more that question which has
been argued out between you on many
well-fought field, but which, after a weeks
recreation on his part, always presents
itself again.
Before you start you may feel dull and
half-hearted: you may not be sure but that
marriage is failure, and life not worth
living. At the end of two hours you come
back, your gloves in bits and strings, your
habit covered with mud, your cap drunk
| and disorderly-your best gloves, your
| SWEETEST habit, your most glorious CAPT
But there Is much joy and lsrge-sized and
| industrious circulation within you.
| long ago discovered that circulation
| enough circulation-is, seriously, remedy
| for all the ills of life 1t will cure indiges-
| ton, headache, heartache, despondency-
| despair and, | dare say, bankruptcy, re-
| morse, destruction and humiliation, if it
| own mind, that it was both the Nepenthe
| and the Lsthe of the wise Greeks; the
wondrous potion that rocked all pain and
grief asleep, and gave the sick body and
hurt spirit health and fresh courage, aud in
| the pulsing stream in W hose sweet Obvious
| currents all past failures and disappoint-
| ments are forgot, all JOY, all success seem
possible.
know, by actual experiment, that whom
l hav out
able and active pony, ard come out ahead
| and top, every pulse In your body bound
/ ing, you don't care a flip whether the
| winds in the east or the west; and you
wonder with good-humored amusement
4 what thing it was-what little sneezy thing
that hurt or worried you so yesterday
| You dent want to hit the world too hard,
for fear you might hurt it. but you want it
to keep mighty civil tongue in its head
and do you about right.
| A SUBSTITUTE FOR ROUNDUP
am far from the skies, the plains and the
ponies Of West Texas, ana the spirit Of the
| spring roundup, the longing to be among
| horses and saddles, to see some riding, be-
came so irresistible finally that | went into
| a riding academy the other day, and there /
saw, for the first time. Craftsmanship as she
is taught" the approved English style of
| riding at trot.
| l looked at it with prejudiced eyes, of
course l did. One who has been accustomed
| through long observation, as well as per-
| sonal experience. with the Workmanship of
the western plains, where there is no style
| or form" except what is most natural,
| easy, and, as a consequence, beautiful and
| graceful is not the one TO find whatever is
| good or admirable in the English style
| taught in city riding schools.
| When | saw that SNUG and trim riding
master, with his English whiskers and his
| English top boots, bobbing solemnly around
| the sawdust ring, on steed trained almost
| like circus horse, a vision came before me
of certain glass-eyed, dish-faced, pinto
calico yclept Badly, l wot of, who is in
veterately broncho, for whom the whole
| Devils River region is too small when he
| gets on a rampage, and whose digestion
| troubles him if he don't rampage at least
| once a week.
l could not but fancy, with wicked glee,
| the surprise of this immaculate and con-
| summate individual on his back, when be
felt Baldy's spine arching like that of high
| strung cat when she sees a dog, and his
| well-bred horror when the saddle was sud
denly shot up some six feet and came down
on four legs as rigid as iron with a sicken-
ing PUNK! What disapprobation he would
feel for Baldy's trick of standing on his
hind legs and playing the Carnival OF
| Venice" with all the runs, variations and
heavy bass, on an imaginary piano ten feet
long with his fore feet, or his ballot girl &C
| ComDlishment of hoDDiup clear off the