Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14

Of men need good shaking up every day.
the health scientists are now declaring, and
horseback riding secures this means to the
highest perfection known It is becoming
the fashion for doctors to recommend it to
those who can AFFORD it and who have be-
come run down in health or are dyspeptic.
Doubtless the same result could be pro-
duced IN other ways. Dumb-bells are good,
and also Indian clubs, and many other gym
nastic exercises which may be readily
learned and INDUCED IN at home without
the expense which the keeping of saddle
horse entails. But here is the difficulty
with such exercises. There is no fun in
them after the novelty wears OF
and he VINO then keeps on is
an exceptional person, and would
not be very likely to get out of sorts ex-
cept under most extraordinary circum-
stances. But with horseback riding it is
different. The more one does of it the
greater does the pleasure become. And
when one gets really fond of the exercise,
there is no need to give it up until absolute
decrepitude shall have permanently fas-
tened on 4 man, in case where wholesome
exercise cannot save him.
Good saddle horses are now extremely
high on account of their scarcity They
usually run. in the Eastern and Northern
cities, at about s25O-horses entirely well
trained run considerably higher There is
not near enough to supply the demand.
It is now a settled fact, says the writer,
that saddle horses must come. They are
getting in the fashion and are increasing in
numbers so fast as the supply will admit
of Every man of means now concludes
that when he feels his youth slipping away
he must hold it back as long as he can by
wholesome exercise, and he finds that exer-
else best secured by horseback riding As
q consequence he wants good saddle
horse, and is not at all particular so far as
relates to the cost, provided he can be
suited. He must gallop over the country,
he feels. The fresh country air blows the
cobwebs from the brain; the iolting of the
horse secures good digestion and a healthy
appetite, and brings about wholesome
physical fatigue which induces restful
sleep.
And now, continues the writer, since the
saddle horse must come, where is he to
come from. Not from stables where trot-
tiers and other fast stock have so long
claimed the exclusive attention of breeders
who know nothing of saddle stock, but
from the broad prairies of the West or
Southwest, where people all their lives
have been entirely familiar with that class
of stock, and have rated it above all other
classes. The horseback riders must supply
the saddle horses, and once they have fairly
gone into the industry the world will take
its supplies from no other section. Texas
could supply all North America with saddle
horses if she would, and it would not take
long for her to make ''the Texas saddle
horse as much household term as now is
''the Texas mustang or ''the Texas pony
This thing is well worthy of serious con-
sideration at the hands of Texas farmers.
Let them settle down to good strain of
saddle horses and push them TO the full ex-
tent Of Texas capabilities, which are GER
tainly very great. A grand opportunity is
now before us, and with a long pull,
strong pullsand q pull all together we can
soon give Texas saddle horses such u repu-
tation that the horseback riders of other
sections with means at command would
keenly feel that they were not figuring well
up to the highest plane of respectaoility with
q saddle horse from any other region than
Texas