Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-07-14
WHO LOVES HORSES LOVES WOMEN.
Perhaps Some Girls Look Unhappy Be-
hind Speeders, but Don't BE Too Sure

Perhaps Some Girls Look Unhappy Be
hind speeders. but Don't BE Too Sure.
The usually apparently endless stream
of wagons and carriages, two wheelers,
drags and sulkies was filing along the
west side drive in 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:
81 never can understand the women
and the horsey men-how they get along
together. Several things are common
to most men who are what l call ad-
dicted to the horse. They either wear
the most peculiar and pronounced hats
and coats that attract attention from
afar, or they pay no heed at all to dress
and look shabby even though they are
rich. Next, they are rough in speech
and often profane. Then again they
are so fond Of what is called talking
horse that many of them seem to warm
up on no other topic. But last of all,
they are all 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 in mans admiration ever since
the quadruped attained sufficient devel-
opment to create the race of horsey men,
and it has long been a rule that the men
who love horses are also especially fond
of women. But what can't understand
is what fun the ladies get out of the sit
uation.
81 sit here in the park on every fine
day and study the case. The horsey men
do not talk to the women beside them.
They are the most tiresome companions
in the world. They never, as a rule,
know anything about the scenery they
are passing through. They see and en-
joy nothing but the horse they are driv-
ing. They sit bent up on their seats
with a rapt or q stolid expression of
face watching the animal they drive.
Whether there is magnetic Jingle in
the reins, such as we fishermen feel in
the pole that is tugged by trout, can
not say.
Either that or the mere delight of
watching the rise and fall of the horses
back as it warns to its work suffices to
satisfy the man, and there he sits, silent
and engrossed-about as admirable a
companion to the woman by his side as
a 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 disigure 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 companionship is more than /
can see.
"But," said the wide awake man. 81
was once speaking to a woman of this
view of the case, and she plunged me
deeper into the mystery. A man with
a 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 girl will take him and
drop dozen better fellows Why |
asked, ARE women so fond of horsesY
WELL she replied, they like men who
own horses; such men are not so numer-
Gus as those who don't. New York
Sun