The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-08-02
WHO LOVES HORSES LOVES WOMEN
Perhaps Some Girls Look Unhappy Be
hind Spesders, bat Don't lie Too Sure.

IA Some Girls Look Unhappy Be
hind Speedcrs, bat Don't lie Too Sure.
The usually apparently endless stream
Of wagons and carriages, two wheelers,
drags and guikies was fling along the
west side drive il Central park, and a
wide awake citizen was seated beside a
reporter looking on, when the wide
awake citizen relieved his mind by this
speech:
Il never can understand the women
md the ho-sev men-how they get along
together. Several things are common
to most men who are what | call adj
dictcd to the horse. They either wear
tie l4ost peculiar and pronounced hats
sd coats that attract attent&)n from
afir. or they pay no heed at all to dress
ald look shabby even though they are
y:.h Next. they are rough III speech
and Cf.en profane. Then again they
are 50 fond Of what is called talking
horse that many Of them seem to warm
ND on no other topic. But last of AL,
they are al! fond of women That is no
new discovery of mine. | suspect that,
though women were mems first cOmpan-
ions. the horse has been coupled with
woman i'll mans admiration ever since
the quadruped attained sufficient deyel-
Opment to create the race Of hOrsey men,
and it has long been "A rule that the men
who love horses are also especially fOud
Of women. But what | can't understand
Is what fun the ladies get out of the sit
uation.
II sit here in the park OF every fine
day and study the case. The hOrsey men
Go not talk to the wo1ne beside them.
They are the most tiresome companions
IL the world. They never, as a rule,
know ANYTHING about the scenery they
are passing through. They see and en-
Joy nothing bat the horse they are driv-
inc. They st bent up on their seats
wi,h II rapt or il stolid expression of
face Watching the animal they drive.
Whether there is a magnetic tingle in
= the rtins. such rs we fishermen feel in
the pole that is tugged by a trout, | can
not Eay.
EITHER or the mere delight of
watching tu, Z and fall of the horses
back as it warns to its work suffices to
satisfy the man, and there he sits, silent
! and engrO>sed-abOut as admirable a
/ companion to the woman by his side as
Il mummy or a statue, but that is not
all. He has taken the ~precaution to put
on big goggles to protect his eyes from
dust and flying stones and clOtS of dirt.
She cannot so distigure herself, and
therefore has to hold her head down and
strain the rim Of her hat to make it help
protect her face. Sometimes she has all
she can do to keep her hat from blowing
away. What fun any woman gets out
Of such a companionship is more than |
can see.
But" said the wide awake man. Il
was once speaking to a woman of this
view Of the case, and she plunged me
deeper into the mystery. "A man with
u horse has a tremendous advantage
over those who have not got horses in
gaining favor with young girls said
she; "a horse will cover many deficiencies
in a man, and a girl will take him and
drop a dozen better fellows WHY |
asked, are women so fond of hOrses?'
Well, she replied, they like men who
own horses; such men are not so numer-
GUS as those who don't. '"-New York
Sun