St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-02

There is no use denying that she beat
US men in everything"
1.-The reporter Is asking about Miss
Brown" explained the man to the little
group that had circled about US. Every
body smiled and looked wise. II guess
you can tell about her horseback rid
ing" continued the black-bearded
man, nodding to tall youth. who
bluShed like girl for being so pointed
out.
"Well, horseback riding is one of the
most innocent and useful kinds OF ex-
erclse of which any one can partake;
still you would have thought it great
sin by the way everybody acted the
first time she dashed up and down the
beach. She did not confine herself TO
riding sideways. No. stree! When
the polo mustangs were down she
would take one. 60 right out of the
wafer aud leap OH his back by merely
resting her hands on him. and thus.
bareback, she would fly up and
down, riding astride and everyday.
1t was simply DREADFUL the old ladies
said"
why dreadful. for it is quite an art
to stick to horse without saddle or
bridle?"
''To be sure, and she rode remarkably
y
it was free shOw-that is what damned
her. Everybody who criticised her had
been to the circus hundreds of times,
and sat for hours watching performances
not half SO skiliful. but they had paid to
get IN. Paying to get in throws won
derful charm over things"
That is not all she did, either"
spoke up lad who carried long whip
and f1irted il most dangerously abo ut in
his enthusiasm. "She would ride the
mustang into the surf, and when way
out where they had to swim she would
fall off, or leap off. or do some aston.
ishing thing that kept us frightened
out OF our wits. Then she would laugh
that tantalizing laugh that always made
you feel she was poking fun at you
particularly and nobody else"
lone woman SAID things about her
because she rode straddIe," remarked a
small boy who lay fiat OH his back
amusing himself clan' ing at mosquitoes
Huh! Miss Brown laid her out next
day by 'pearin' $! Ccke w ZEN old Pro-
priety went out OH her Gle straddle.
'Oh, Johnny! she cred out ,ud SOS
tother woman could hear. 'wny dou't
she ride sideways?' "
''She was all expert in the water"
said tall young woman, whose oval
face grew very earnest as she spoke.
''She could do anything in the way of
swimming. Often when on; in boat
she would suddenly topple ID give
ioud scream as she went under like Il
lump of lead. A; first it naturally made
every body think she had fall.
len accidentally, but her broth
er, who was generally with her,
would laugh and prevent any one
Jumping foolishly after her to rescue
the supposed drowning one. On, so
long She would stay under; it would
seem ages. Then perhaps, She came up
nat on her stomach, lace downward, ap.
parently dead. My heart cried out in
alarm, and l thought her brother a
brute to sit so unconcernedly in the end
Of the boat. When she could hold her
breath no longer she'd flop over and
laugh until we ali like silly fools did the
same.
Zone day she caught the rope attached
to our boat in her mouth and with it
clinched firmly between her teeth she
pulled us to the shore. As for rowing.
she would race with anybody, and, un-
less tired when She started out, she gen
orally wOn."
do you remember the time she
turned handspring just as some old
fOgy passed." asked one of the men.
"She could swing the pole and turn
somersauits and wrestle and box and
fence. and oh, Lordy! I'd have
to talk all day if told you all
she cou Id do. The polo men always
liked to have her play polo and ride
the mustangs. and she was jOlly one,
you bet! She never made a fellow feel
ashamed when she beat him, either.
She would simply say. That was fine
game. wasn't il? don't remember her
ever saying she could do SO and so, or
that she knew this and that; she sprung
everything Oh US when the right time
came, and it did not seem like showing
of enc bit. She was not proud or
naughty, but jolly girl, and in for all
the fun in her reach"
"What did her mother think of her?"
she did not seem 10 think Annie was
doing anything out Of the way. Annie