New-York tribune., 1891-05-17

about rdingchange your horses but not your saodle
This m not be the longest sighted view to take OF IT,
because woman should be able to ride any
horse TO any saddle but you will make your best ap
pearance and do your best riding to the saddle that
you are accustomed to. They say in England Twenty
different horses rather than different saddles" An
English teacher who came here last autumn and
secured an engagement with the New Riding and DIV
ing Club of Brooklyn, was always very particular
about this-she would never ride any but her own
saddle, having that taken to wherever she was to
mount. still another thing she insists Is that her
pupils walk and from their lesson, unless living at
very considerable distance when she has them walk
half mile or mile both before and after exercising
In the saddle.
1t is not at all probable that riding astride for
women will become fashionable In America, but the
discussion over riding "man-fashiOn" has created a
demand for side saddles with reversible pommes. to
do away with one-sided development, the danger
which many physicians declared there was In riding for
women. You get a reversible pOmmel saddle for
the same price that you would get without this
advantage and even If you never learn to ride both
sides, it is good thing to feel that you have it. The
latest Improvement to be in reversible pommes
Is a saddle with neat French horn, which unscrews
and may be taken from the left side and put over on
the right at will. The little handkerchief pocket,
which on this pig skin takes the form of a miniature
saddle bag, hung, when the LADY IS riding with her
eft leg over the p0mme on the LETT SIDE Tnen tnere
is the saddleless pommel," which gives a woman a
seat right the horses back, separated from II
only by a thin cloth. These pommels of course
reversible, and ladies who have tried the innova-
ton declare that it gives familiarity and confidence.
1t is well TO get safety strrup one that has
not this advantage, and avoid all possible danger
Of being dragged should you possibly chance to lose
your seat. A good steel bits bride, with curb and
snaffie Of course. is worth about S12 The ordinary
unblacked leather is the most popular though gadet
leather is pretty with a white gray horse and whit.
linen bride looks well black steed. Never get
nickelled bit, for IL will not stand securing Whips
and spurs are Of course, a matter Of fancy. whip
crop will cost anything from IS cents to S25-mOrt
IL you want it to- woman should learn to
spur, though 10 Is dangerous weapon for beginners
1t Is as indispensable TO the finer management of a
saddle horse Is the curb bit. BY the way, what
ridiculous notion concerning curbed bits Is prevalent
curb bit is not to stop runaway horse more horses
made TO away by the improper OF the curt
of one. This Important curb II Is Just as neces
sary for woman who wants to ride, unless she is
always going TO ride under the eye Of mare dequita
ton, to learn the proper adjustment OF the bits and
curb chain. the entire saddlng and bridng of horse
I'm health in trivia. illness, in fact IL is for-weI
for boy TO learn to swim.
IL is not judctOus TO go into the fine points Of ht
riding habit. Fashions constantly changing and
very much depends on individual taste No longer
are any very long habits seen among people who know
what is the proper thing: the dress now coming but
cOOrs with shirt front and hats are often seer
In summer