The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1899, Page 33

THE SUNDAY CALL 81 to spend Berlin (Md.) H A reasonabl 97,200 miles—more earth’s nferer tting just tr about hi HIS is the season of the vear when My Lady goes a horseback-riding n town. Which {s quite another and more costly matter than cross- S ol One W cour riding n Give a horse of s : gins, bloomers sombrero complete. rue modern accoutered for the chase, be it AT bear or jackrabbit. She and you please, takes the hing the pommel, or does a good fifty miles a her meals in the conventional mar the morrow. But Diana of the houlevard and prome- nade, bien! She is another creature. Her horse is a well groomed animal of ankle and short of tail, with an cratic tiit of the head. He trots, five-dollar-an-hour equine should f sugar Boll until as a trot, HABIT AND THE WAY Tow R MiISS MARGARETPEALE The Correct Riding Habit. nor shies at an automobile or any ether kind of wheel. The habit of the city Diana is a match for the steed It is horse and horse which is the better grocmed. Geod hostlers seem to be more plentiful in SBan Francisc h bit-makers, judg- of the fair estrienn The habit which Miss Margaret Dale wears in these plctures was made in Ne York with th Lunnon'’ seal of appro and is “‘awf good form, den’t cher know.” Miss Dale is devoted te rldl{‘lfl and her faultless habit caused not a sm: flutter among the riders of the San Fran- cisco Club, where the courtesies of the ring and Stable were extended to her while she was tarrying among us. £ be absolutely correct in , study these photographs and pre wrangle with your tallor should he suggest otherwise, for down to the stitching e gloves and the bind- ing on the Derby (pronounce Darby) it is comme il faut. San Francisco girls may be a seam be- hind the times in the tter of ultra-: - fonable habits, but as for their riding, it single-footer or trotter, they can Pace all comers. The list of good riders is a long oune, but by general accord and Captain Dilhan's consent Miss Rose Hooper is placed at the head of the local list. Miss H sits @ horse as only a finished equestrienne can, horse and fi%er moving a8 one. Her mother, Mrs. Hooper, s algo a gplendid rider and past grand mistress of all the arts pertalning to the craft of horseman- ship. Miss Marie Wells and her cousin, Milss Marie Oge, are enthuseiastic riders, having forsworn almost all other delights for the beating of hoofs. The “Sweet Maries" both ride well, and are connoisseurs in the matter of thoroughbreds. Miss Alice Moffit is as much at home in the saddle as on the golf links. She is a rider who recks not of ditches nor fences. Miss Moffit will dare a mount that would try the courage of most horsemen. fss Mabel McDonald of Santa Rosa 1e best cross-country rider of them all. higher the fences the more she enjoys leap. Breaking In horses is a favorits pastime of this Diana. Mrs. Walter Mages, assistant in the gymnasium at the Univarsity of Califor- is The tt nia, {s a rider who knows not_ fatigue. A trip from Berkeley to the Yosemite Valley, up hill and down dale, does not tire her any more than a canter in the park These are but a few of the many eques- triennes in our midst who would not be put to blush by riders of any burg on either con nt. —_————— When Dewey was the executive officer of the Colorado, Admiral Farragut's flag- ship, it happened that for some misde- two sailors were confined in the as the ship's prison was called. making his regular tour ship he heard one way, I've got ed in my hip under “brig,” When Dewey w of ir that were over . and T'll burn this old id nothi the fir but stepped on deck ang e ship's soners, t the s were howling to be saved from @ When he thought th were St wet down, Dewey said, “'Fire’s out as he walked away he remarked, “I guess their matches are pretty well soaked by this tima'