Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-10-05
ROTTEN ROW IN JUNE.
The Famous London Promenade Where
EngIishwomen Are Seen at Their Best.

The Famous London Promenade Where
EngIishwomen Are Seen at Their Best.
Rotten Row is sight to behold, and
alone worth a six-thousand mile jour
ney by sea and land to witness Such
horses, shining like satin, with a per-
fection of grooming, food and care!
Such equestriennes, sitting as no wo-
men on earth but Englishwomen know
how to sit and can sit on a horses back,
and dressed as no women on earth but
English women know how to dress and
do dress-on horseback! Wherever and
whenever else they are dowdy, sloven-
ly, rough, ill-assorted or uncouth in
their apparel-and all the world knows
they are one or the other, or all to-
gether, when following their natural
taste-just SO soon as they don their
| riding habiliments, nothing can come
near them. And that their ''style" in
this respect is copied by all ladies of
good ta- goes without saying-ladies
of other countries 1t is a pity that
some of these foreign imitators of dress
cannot as easily and successfully copy
the horsewomanshiP and their models.
Their chamois trousers, ankle-short
skirts, glove-ftting habits, tightly
grasped 'crops" and single diamond
pointed spurs" would be less ridiculous
and outre.
But you ought to see the Englishwo-
men in Rotten Row. And not only see
their dress (you can see that in New
York;, but their riding-which you can
not see i, New York, begging the New
! York Ia { pardon. AS for their dress,
imagine the very shortest of short
skirts, beneath which, as sharp can
ter sweeps the trihing drapery back
ward, seen the broad hem of the
trouser leg just reaching the instep (or
the place where the instep ought to be)
of a-tr-um-candor compels me to
say it-big foot There is no doubt
about that. Englishwomen's feet are
big, WI ther on horseback in patent
leather 'Hessian" or "Wellington," or
in a white satin shoe at a drawing
room. However, riding boot, being
black, does not make the Englishwo-
mans foot look so ''all out of doors" as
the satin shoe does There is some
advantage IN that. But it Is big
enough in all conscience, however
you clothe it. But the foot i.
the only flaw in the spectacle which
in dozens gladdens your eyes il
Rotten Row of morning. You soor
forget it altogether as you gaze upward
at the perfect figure above-the slender
round waist, the fat back, unbroken by
the faintest protrusion of the shoulder
blade, the swelling bust, the rounde,
mot round) shoulders, neither squar
nor high but gently curving inward ant
upward, without break or bend, to tn
swan-like neck, upon which is poise,
the small and high-bred head Not
seam, not a wrinkle do you see, fror
waist to collar, and you think that tn
trite description of perfect garment d
a perfect figure, being as though tn
figure had been melted and poured il
must have originated at sight of one c
these Rotten Row equestriennes. A
for the riding, there is firm, oonfiden
seat-the erect carriage, with elbow
close in and well down, shoulder
thrown back, head evenly balanced
chin up and hands the very hghtes
: whether the gait be walk, tro,, cante
: or gallop. In each and every instanc
the perfection Of grace and skill show
itseH.-San Francisco Argonaut-