The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05
Simmer Horseback Riding
IIXX THATEvER the automobile may
w have done TO the carriage

| horse, said horseback rider,
"it has had little if any effect on the saddle
horse
at used TO be thought that riding was
q diversion or exercise for the rich alone,
that only people of means and leisure
could ride horseback That may have
been largely true once. but now, while
riding is still not an inexpensive pleasure.
there are many riders of comparatively
moderate means.
Il fancy that there are now more riders
than ever. Certainly the number to be
seen in city parks has not diminished.
and in summer you see now greater
number than ever in the country At
summer resorts there may be found
riders who perhaps never ride elsewhere,
and other riders who continue to ride
here as they do in the city at other sea-
sons.
AT the beginning Of summer, when
their patrons begin to leave the city. great
city riding schools send more or less OF
their horses after them II might be,
for instance, that such an establishment
would send a score or more of horses to
some resort. II is not alone at the greater
resorts that such riding facilities are
found; they may be found as well al many
smaller places, supplied by men who make
it their business 10 provide saddle horses
for summer hotel guests
such a man, for instance, comes up
from Texas. Down there in the spring
he puts dozen saddle horses in a car,
COW ponies maybe, and he brings those
horses up North, perhaps TO a place where
he has been season after season. This
may be a small summer hotel and not
near a town, out in the country. and posi-
bly, there is little river quarter or half
mile away beside which the horseman
! pitches his camp.
The first thing he does is to go to the
nearest town and buy such lumber as he
requires. Then, with the assistance of one
young man he has brought with him'a
general helper and cook he builds his camp.
lie sets up one big tent For a horse tent
which along one side hSfirides into stalls
with feed boxes and hay rack, while along
the other side he stores his hay in bales and
other feed and sets up rack for saddles
and other equipment. Then he ,cts up in
a line two or three wall tents. all foored.
and one of them equipped with "A table and
bench, which also he makes himself.
sleeping quarters. Altogether it is a very
attractive camp. picturesquely situated
as it is under tall trees on the bank of
river
And then with his camp finished and
in order he is ready To do business; and the
chances are that there is business ready
for him.
IF this is Place where the horseman
has been befo.e his horses find riders at
once. III the place is new TO the horseman
he may have To wait a little till somebody
breaks the ice but when one man or
woman starts riding others are sure to
follow, and soon they are keeping the
horses busy. Even at a small hotel where
you might not have expected to find many
riders there will he riding enough to keep
the horses going the season through.
AT the end Of the season the horses
from the riding schools are sent back to
their home establishments, while the man
from Texas may sell his horses, some to
neighborng farmers. He is pretty sure
to get for them on the average as much az
they cost him when they stepped of the
cars here at the seasons start"
How good yarn tastes at about 10
o'clock in the evening just before going
to bed!
What is the oldest Joke in the world?
Probably the statement of an old bach
elor that he doesn't get married be-
cause no one will have him.
A young mother In Atchison has q
baby boy year and half old, II hate
this baby's wife already" she says,
man should use the telephone Just
as he uses the revolver-only in cases
OF absolute necessity.
Two men We're talking on the street
to-day, when one became violently ex-
cited. Tut, tut" said the calm man,
II don't want to fight--I want TO argue"
What has become az the old FASH
oned country horse that had its tail
eaten of by calves?