The Washington herald., 1913-01-19

pasture and only taken up when his
spirits had recovered their tone. Some
men who handle colts for development
he further said, In an interview had with
him before he passed TO his final rest
never seem to know when a colt should
go to his STALL II he shows a good
eighth, a good quarter, Or good mile,
they are not content until an effort is
made TO better II on the same day, in
stead of cooling the colt out there and
then and putting him carefully away
| while he was cheerful and feeling good.
Sometimes, he continued, colt does not
feel like working. He goes bad gated,
scalps badly, drives on one rein, lacks
ambition, and won't try to trot. Instead
of keeping at him, the wiser plan is to
lay him off for a few days.
II this is not done, a colt developer is
liable to do more harm than good, as
nine times out of ten the colt will go
back, as the saying is. Colts, he re-
marked, do not need the care an aged
horse requires after their work, because
their youth serves them. Their wasted
vitality recruits more rapidly than does
that Of an aged horse. Now, when We
come TO analyze carefully these conver-
sations of a man who was a thinker,
how strongly they appeal to the common
sense of every horseman. II Is SO easy,
We repeat, to travel in beaten paths. Be
cause Hiram Woodruff or Bud Doble did
certain things in a certain way, it does
not follow that there are not better
ways.
The training ranks. filled as they are
with industrious, painstaking, and con-
scientious men. and skillful in the sulky, |
are sadly lacking in thinkers-sadly lack |
ing in men who dare to think for them |
selves and who have the courage TO step |
aside from beaten paths. II has truly |
been said that man is an initiative ami |
NAL We know il to be true, because we |
see examples OF 1t every day of our
lives. On the race track, for instance. |
We see Geers with a stub of a cigar be-
tween his teeth. Visit the country half |
mile circuit, and one will see drivers with |
the Geers habit. Geers chops off the |
tail of his horses, puts little cork on 1
their shoes. and. 10, we have the Mem |
phis shoe. Straightaway trainers who /
hear of il send their horses to the shop, |
have their toes squared, the new-fangIed /
shoe adjusted. and, we doubt not, il they |
could have their way. some of them
would even try them on their mothers-in-
law, because the old ladies at some time L
gated and interfered with the domestic
peace Of the household.
We are all the slaves of fashion The
poor initiate the rich in dress and in /
other things, and the rich initiate some
one else. Mother bends over the wash
tub and the ironing board. while Mary
Jane pounds the keys of the piano in
the front parlor, and, perchance, sings
dainty snatches from the latest opera
Such are the scenes to be witnessed not
only in Maggie Murphy's home, but in
the homes Of the toiling masses in every
part of this great country. The word
father has almost disappeared from our
domestic vocabulary. Pop" or pap" or
dad have been substituted, and mother
Is now addressed familiarly as ''mom."
Mrs. Moneybags rides in an imported
limousine, and straightaway Mrs Smith
her husband into mortgaging
the house lot, furniture, and their other
elongings-everything except the immor-
tai souls of the household-in order that
she and her family also may ride in a
ear. In committing these ond other fol-
lies, some of us are not initiating our
even at that. OF course, any
One has the right to own a car, or, IL
i pleases him, a golden chariot, provided
business But that does not dull the point
Of our remarks.
February falls on Saturday, and at
Midnight of that day the three-year-
trotting fdturity closes Owners of can
iidates should bear in mind that only
Twelve days remain for them to comply
with the conditions of the stakes. F. A,
Robinson, of Brandywine, Md; p. FL
rippetts, of Chittenham, Nd; Dr. ]. E.
Of Forestville, Nd; Edward