The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-26
WHAT SHE MEANT.
That Charming Woman
on the Horse.
WHY SHE TOOK A BIG JUMP.
No Race With a MOOn-Scaling
Bovine.
BEAUTY TO SHINE AT THE SHOW
The First Annual Affair of the
Association Will Mark an Epoch
in San Francisco.

San Francisco has never had a horse
show. If it had not been for Il. j.
Croker she mightn't have had one for
years to come; and so. when you come to
think of it. even if the yelIow-iacketed
woman On the sorrel-coated horse took a
long jump, it was only emblematic of the
strides the city is making every day.
The cow that jumped over the moon had
nothing 10 do with the case. The yellow
jacketed woman had a better purpose in
her leap than racing with shorthorn.
Pretty, dashing, spirited, sitting her horse
in a magnificent jump. she clearly typifed
the genius of California excelling the
world.
That's the-kind of a femininity the yell
low-iacketed woman is. and there will be
hundreds just as dashing, fully as sweet
and pleasing and graceful at the coming
shew, of which she was the so charming
herald.
You may be sure that Mr.. Graham will
not be so cruel as TO paint even the most
cunning of little teeny weeny steamboats,
for them TO jump over. He really is not
cruel when you come to know him. you
know. he is as pleasant soul as you
could meet in a days walk, and has a
voice to charm bird off a bush, as the
saying goes. Now, how could you i'm
agine dear fellow like that putting any
beauty of the horse show In the attitude
of going over a steamboat with hop,
skip and Jump. Not on your life, you
pretty dear.
a SaDdow with the longest distance
kind OF dumbbells could not do such a
Il Of
fist to disregard the unities, not to speak
Of the DrOprieties.
But it is all over now. There is blank
On the wall in the California where the
celebrated Autograph once hung; society
has lost its temporary frown. The de-
signing mammas, if there really are any
Outof the story books, have been treasured
that D0llie and May and Birdie will look
stunning at the show, and papa. now that
he has had his little joke, is even willing
to come down handsomely for his girls.
The boTse-shOw management is pushing
onward With success assured, and Land
lord Warfeld can have Artist Graham's
little gem to hang where he will, II he
will only say the word
If that is not a state OF affairs for con-
graduation, will somebody please rise
from the amen corner and say what is?
No, no one? Well, let it 90 at thatl
Then hurrah for the merry. merry
show. with its sleek-coated beauties, as
they caDter and caracole and curvet at the
shrine of beauty. Rurrah for the crack
of the wriggling whip aud the flash of the
whirliDg wheel; for the spur and the silk
for the color, and life, and music, and
beauty that will mark the first annual of
the Horse-show Association.
Ii al the first attempt it don't equal, If
not surpass, the biggest thing ever given
in Madison-square Garden, great many
people will be mistaken. With each and
every box bespoken months in advance,
with the solid enterprising men of the city
on the directory. with State to draw
from where the horses are undeniably the
swittest. and where the grass is bluer and
the women-but what's the use of rubbing
it into Kentucky-with all these things
favorable Success-aye. triumph-is GER
tain.
And all because the enterprising gentle
men of the directory are proud of the city
of their residence. they started the
movement for the horse show, not to pre-
vide swell social function. but to do for
the horse, ''tbe noblest animal next to
man." what others are and have been do
ing for the dog and the chicken. They
realized that the stable was a more mag
nifcent edifice than, and deserving Of, at
least. as much recognition as, the kennel
aud the coop. but for some reason no one
took hold until April last, when II. ].
Croker put his shoulder to the wheel.
From then until the present time he has
been untiring in his efforts. Through his
influence the directorate was made up and
it is safe to say shat not even in New
York have so many solid citizens pledged
their names and their efforts TO placing the
horse in proper light before the public.
That is what it amounts to. Not one of
them went into it to make a cent and all
were ready to pocket any loss that might
ensue. They did it for California and San
Francisco and when the show is on they
will rejoice that their efforts have been so
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