Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-18
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that some eastern woman had done),
would do. Miss Long has contributed
valuabely in many ways to war reliet
work
"I've always loved horses and I
can't remember when | first sat on
one but my father tells about find
inc mo in stable on horses back
when I was four years old. SO you
see. I began young. In all that time
I've never loved horse like love
Revelation. Yes, horses have person
alties just like people. and you love
some of them for one thing and some
for another. but there are never two
Of them alike"
More In Names.
Then Miss Long grabbed up "Billy
Sunday" Cone of the Boston bulls that
had been presented to her by the fire
eating evangelism, threw RoadheaVer
the German police dog), "A kiss and
ran out to drive Revelation and Rcpu-
tation to vet one more victory.
In the meantime Mr. Smith gave an
instructive dissertation on the way
horses "wore" their harness
They're like women" he said
(with charming Scotch Canadian
accent. They either have or they
haven't that elusive thing called
'stvle,' and if they haven't it all tho
silver trappin"s YOU can pile on them
won't make them look like anything
at oil
Miss Long disclaimed any credit for
the perfection of the Jersey he'd
"Thcvre my fathers" she said, "and
aren't they exquisite? | remember
how insulted | was one time when
someone TOLD me | had cow-eyes. That
was before | was familiar with the
beautiful eyes Of the Jersey cattle"
'Thc Spring Maid" III.
Mrs. q. j. Mooers who, with her
husband, .. j. Mooers of Columbia,
Mo, is exhibiting ten horses at the
show this week. was in no mood to
he interviewed. Her favorite mare,
The spring Maid" is ill., "The Spring
Maid who has been one of the most
phenomenal winners in the United
States in recent years, has five and a
half degrees of temperature. oh. yes,
indeed horses run temperatures just
like humans and for exactly the same
reasons Like a highly o-Ganized wo-
man, "The Spring Maid" is i'll and fe-
verish because she has been roughly
handled.
Most persons DO not understand
that this sort of an animal is subject
to ;he same sort of emotions as hu-
man being" said Mrs. Mooers. The
Spring Maid was badly iarred in n
slight railway accident coming down,
and all our pettinr and caiolirg could
not calm her. She trembled like "A
leaf all night and now today she Is
i'm this condition. If ANYTHING hap
pens to The Spring Maid | think I'll
go out Of the business. | cannot
imagine going on without her. She
is one of those rare horses that al
ways give Won all she's got-and then
| Just little bit more"
\ Consistent Winner.
"Thc Spring Maid" who will not
on account of her indisposition, be
shown here. has been the most con
sistent single class winner In the
| United States for the last four years
Having been shown In that class 217
times she has only been defeated for
first place Is times. Mrs. Mooers has
driven her to victory all of these 202
times. And now, of course, she is un-
happy because the favorite has five
and thrce-fifths degrees of fever
Mrs. Mooers has been one or tho
largest winners of harness horse
stakes in the United states In tho last
five years and has shown regularly
| in all the big national shows.
"1've always loved horses-who
,ocsn'to" she said. "but our start as
exhibitors was unique About twenty
years ago Mr.. Mooers had thriving
business and one trotting mare and
before long noticed that as tho marc
prosperod the business suffered. Then
he got two harness horses, and ! told
I him that il was poor business havin.
co1ple thousand dollars invested In
something that didn't bring him in
anv revenue, and that the thing for
/ him to do was to either let go Of the
horses or the business. We both de-
! c1ed to kiss tho business goodby-
and our present day stables are the
result II Is the millionaire's game
| but starting ~ bedrock We have de-
/ iivered-ard th.t speaks we'll enough
| for our stables, does IT not?
Third One Here.
The third Missouri horsewoman
who has come down to Tulsa pre-
pared to carry off some Of the spoils,
| is Miss Mvrene Houchin Of Jefferson
| CITY. Miss Houchin is charming and
dainty and wlthal n scholarly young
person. and it'S quite impossible to as
sociate hor with horses. She's been In
school all winter at Washington and
only recently returned to her native
town 10 help In the Red Cross relief
work being organized there. Just at
present she Is the moving factor In
an amateur musical comedy for which
she composed the music that Is being
staged in jefferson City.
\ Veteran Rider.
Miss Houchin has been riding In
show rings since she was IL years old
81 inherited II from dad" she said
smiling at her daddy" James A
Houchin. who is exhibiting the famous
Astral King, the champion saddle stall
lion OF the world. "You see, he didn't
have a boy and he passed his love OF
horses on to me. I try awfully hard
not TO let II absorb me. as I want 10
| hn InAnrnafnd In n Lot of nthnt. fh lnpa