The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-10
Of Interest to Women
me Of your worst moods, sparing no

one OF your worst moods, spartng no
one"
You're right my dear. as you al
ways are!" exclaimed the Critical
Woman, penitently. Come, sit down
again and shrive me! Ill confess my
ill-natured mood. The trouble Is. these
people have a pose. and they irritate
me. 1t always seems to me that gen.
utne worth implies simplicity; 1t
should give breadth of view. But peo-
pie who live gently are SO anxious to
impress their superiority upon you!
They emphasize the habits of polite
society; they are mildly shocked at q
touch Of individuality. Your charming
Mrs. Van der Wink Is so keenly con-
scious OF her exquisite personality; tho
set of her mouth, with the under lip
thrust ever SO little forward, means,
Look at me! am the finished pro-
duct of civilization. can afford to be
affable.' While in fact, the finished
product should be-Or appear to be-
unconscious of finish. And every de-
parture from accepted standards APP
pears to them little short of revOlu-
tiOnary."
oh, you must expect conventional
attitude. The unconventional is even
more OF a deliberate pose, isn't it,"
We'll, should have said special
standards. perhaps, rather than accep-
ted. They want to be 'extr especial
Take the question of breakfasting only
on coffee and rolls and fruit, for ex-
ample. They affect the European Gus
tom. As a matter of fact, they do eat
meat or eggs, or anything else ON the
menu. But as 1t isn't the custom
abroad, they don't acknowledge it
when they express their ideals of liv-
ing. And If you have taste or hab-
1t out of the common they remark, pat
ronizingly. It's all according to what
YOU are accustomed to, as if you were
a creature of barbarious methods,
whose society they were forced to toll
crate. AS for me, administer shocks
all along the way"
You seem to receive them ALSO"
said the other, mischievously. why
not take things and people as they
Gomez"
Il do, you know! take everything
as 1t comes. That's my particular
pose!"
The Woman of Enjoyment laughed
heartily.
AT least YOU don't spare yourself"
she said. We'll now, I'll tell you what
bothers me-it's the ultra artistic.
can't understand color schemes and
'restful effects and SO on. only
know when I'm just plain comfOrta-
ble."
Aha! My Philistine, I've caught you
at last! You, too, hate pose, when
YOU are not too kind and good humored
to recognize 1t. Thank goodness,
there are some simple and natural peo-
pie left, such as you and mel"
Yes; 'everybody's queer except thee
a little queer" responded the Woman
OF Enjoyment.
And the Critictl Woman smiled in
diligently.
Lady Jockey Will Ride Horse.
A lady Jockey, Mrs. Maude Thomp-
son, is to appear in "colors' on the
English turf. She is to ride her own
horse in a private trial with a York
race-horse owner.
The lady is renowned throughout
Yorkshire, the horsiest county in Eng
land, as a plucky horsewoman, and as
an owner of racers. She has already
been seen cantering her horses on the
training ground, mounted astride
jockey-wise. The trial is to be of five
or six furlo1gs, under weight for age
conditions. the lady claiming years
allowance. 1t is presumed she\ wifi
adopt the now universal American seat
in riding.
Yorkshire produced the only other
lady jockey in history. She was Mrs.
Thornton. who, in 1904 rode a four
mile match with Mr.. Flint for 500
guineas t$2,625) and lost it. Mrs.
Thornton rode astride and in colors.