The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-08-12
ROTTEN ROW IN JUNE.
The Famous London Promenade Where
English women Are Seen at Their Best.

The Famous London Promenade Where
Englishwomen Are Seen at Their Best.
Rotten Row is sight to behold, and
alone worth six-thousand mile jour
ney by sea and land to witness. Such
horses, shining like satin, with per-
lection of grooming, food and care!
Such equestriennes, sitting as no wo-
men on earth but Englishwomen know
now to sit and can sit on a horses back,
and dressed as no women on earth but
Englishwomen know how to dress and
do dress-on horseback. Wherever and
whenever else they are dowdy, sloven-
ly, rough, ill-asso-ted 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 taste goes without saying-ladies
of other countries. 1t is pity that
some of these foreign imitators of dress
cannot as easily and successfully copy
the horsewomanship and their models
Their channels trousers, ankle-short
skirts, glove-fitting 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 in New York, begging the New
York ladies' pardon. As for their dress,
imagine the very shortest of short
skirts beneath which, as a sharp cam
ter sweeps the trifiing drapery back
ward is seen the broad hem of the
troufr leg just reaching the instep Tor
the place where the instep ought to bel
of a-ter-um-candor compels me to
say il big foot. There is no doubt
about THAT. Englishwomen's feet are
big, whether on horseback in patent
leather "Hessian" or Wellington, OF
in white satin shoe at a drawing
room. However, riding boot, being
black, dies 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 closhe it. But the foot is
the only Jaw in the spectacle which
in dozens gladdens your eyes in
Rotten Row of morning. You soon
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 rounded
mot round) shoulders, neither square
nor high but gently curving inward and
upward, without break or bend, to the
swan-like neck, upon which is poised
the small and high-bred head. Not a
seam, not wrinkle do you see, from
waist to collar, and you think that the
trite description of a perfect garment on
q perfect figure, being as though the
figure had been melted and poured in,
must have originated at sight of one of
these Rotten Row equestriennes. As
for the riding, there is firm, confident
seattle erect carriage, with elbows
close in and well down, shoulders
thrown back, head evenly balanced,
chin up and hands the very hghtest,
whether the gait be walk, trot, canter
or gallop In each and every instance
the perfection of grace and skill shows
itself.-San Francisco Argonaut.