The morning times., 1895-08-04
BICYCLE AGAINST A HORSE
Novel Form of Racing Re
Gently in Great Vogue.
FAIR GIRLS IN THE SPORT
Misses Brice Enjoy Pitting
Their Mounts Against
Cycles.

"You want 10 race me? Where's your
wheel? Are you seated? All right, wheels
moving, skirts in place? An! Get up,
Gypsy. Were Off 10 race with bicycle.
Wan now or forever be onlya horSe"'
The speaker was Mrs. Hiram Cleayer Won
X Kroh, the beautiful young matrun eques-
treune Of New York West End Four Hun
dred, whose prowcss in all athletic sports
makes her as popular with the women as
does her beauty with the men. Once, when
she was tending a flower table at the
Garfield Fair, Mrs. Garfield, smiling through
her tears asked: who is that woman?
She might be called The American Jersey
Lily" And as the American Lily Mrs.
Kr0h has since been known. II Langtry
made Long Branch notorious, Mrs. Kroh
makes II healthful, for she keeps the maidens
astir 10y just such little feats as her race
with a cycle, and she has the American art
OF combining dignity with other traits,
trick not always fully learned by visiting
foreign lilies.
Just what was the outcome of the race
isnot recorded. But the bicycle girldoubtless
came out ahead and Gypsy is still "Only a
horse" for this American Lily is kindness
OF heart itself-as Mrs. Garfield no doubt
detected on sight-and is quite capable Of
pulling" a horse, ii by SO doing she could
please a girl friend.
very formidable lady horseback racer
OF the bicycle is Mrs. Beach, the first woman
60 teach the girls or New York society,
or society anywhere. how TO ride horseback
as a fine art. Mrs. Beach can do a mile in
2:lO without half trying, while the average
girl cyclist does not aspire 10 a mile in
better than three or four minutes, though
there are record breakers, OF course, that
do better. Bat with the average horse and
the average cycle, after il has rolled from
the city out over several century runs,
tins great little American horse teacher
wins nine times out OF ten.
The American Lily's' riding habit is
q very deep blue. In town she wears
8 blue bodice habit with hair tied de-
mUrely al the uape Of the neck and tan
hat afternoons, and a derby mornings.
But On the country she dOnS the most ir
reproachablc shirt front with white vest
as fine as her skin and tie that sets off
the line of chin and neck
Mrs Beach wears always q sort OF uni
form, the one which she teaches society
girls 10 wear and from which she does
not dare TO deviate. Long tan gloves,
high-ncCked habit, snug shirt and a tiny
bunch OF yiolets This, She says, is fun
dress midsummer habit, though white
vests are very cool and pretty 10 summer"
she admits
MISS EUSTIS VISITING.
There is a very famous woman equestrian
who Insists upon riding horseback in this
cycle craze. My horse shall not eat off
Its head" A" she declares. This is Miss Eustis,
who is touring through this country with
her younger sister. She enjoys the racing
contests with her young friends whom
she came from Europe TO see aud she is al
ways surrounded 10y admirers. Her eSques-
TRAN suit ls'.a very dull brown. II Is cut
on the English pattern of walking length
with certain pecuiiariues OF SIDE seams
TO accommodate the pumniel. she owns
skirts built for both right and left saddles
and she alternates when she rides. Her style
OI riding neck is a round collar, with but
ton, a round cut bodice like a footman's
neck in English families, and a white vest
trout, which 10 August Is striped with
very tiny bars Of blue, almost invisible
In Paris, where her fathers legation is
located, she wears q summer the ruffled
shirt fronts Of the French women.
There are several beautiful horsewomeu
who have their habits made in different
parts Of Europe. There is one who gets
eNQuisitelinen habits facetarinwel kno WI
London tailor because hc uses the royal
irish linen, and she gets a very wonderful
Scotch habit in Edinburgh. This Scotch
habit is very worthy or meution. II is very
like the one Mrs. Bradley Martin wore in
Central Park about her first year in heI
Scottish sho0ting-boX. The skirt is deep,
invisible blue The Jacket is the same.
But the lapels, as they turn back. are lined
with brilliant Gordon plaid, and the vest is
a Gordon plaid also TheC0llaris white and
below IL shows tinysqua ofheayiest duck
Collarette. This is comfortable for early
morning riding, and the American woman
who owns one keeps it for her cross country
rides on wet days, when her trig American
habit would be cold and uDsympathetic
PEN SKETCH OF MISS PULLMAN.
Miss Pullman, contrary TO the belief Of the
society reporters, does not spend all hel