The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1900, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL. THEMOST MAGNIF CENI STIABLE L 4 WHERE RRABIAN AND CENTUGKY STREDS FARE RIKE onfine the th in- ex- n every open all om door. ad against your lving- about dis- y if you can. D's—drinking water, nge of occupation. and short holidays g D your temoer. INTHE — Alox, , bits, ubjects. nny thing Heads, he Still the fox , and wins 2 B A CORANER oF HARNESS RO Tiorses o on. SuA DAY <o CLSTHES clean straw, plen- & threshing fleid, back of them e corridor. Behind d extending the whole line of stalls are mats of *d wheat straw, bralded with colored ribbons for & border. The remain- der of the floor is covered with white beach sand, upon which are laid with a stencil designs of coaching scenes in col- ored sands. From this gorgeous slumber hall opens the harness repository, where jetty leath- er and sh & brass festoon the walls and & laree wlass casa contains hits, smoath ) and plain, for docfle, tender-mouthed po- nies; others with curb or break to suit the taste of the-furious-tempered horse. that 1s not satisfied unless he feels as though his mouth were full of chain lightning. Next to the harness-room and occupying the entire space under the great dome shown behind the fountain is the coach- room, lofty and light as an art gallery, with a floor of polished hard maple, all unmarred by the rubber-tired wheels of the many vehicles. A large alcove in one corner of this room has a drained cement floor and hose faucets for carriage wash- ing. This place is a showroom of the car- riage-maker’s art, filled with rigs of every sort. Largest and handsomest of all is a heavy “C” spring Victorish the counter- part of the family traveling coach of pre- rallrosding times. Eo delicately is its vn'm' ;g',.f”! 7| ' |heavy body balanced on the springs thut 1t swings responsive to a finger touch. A four-in-hand rig stands with horn and wicker cane basket strapped in place ready for a start. Almost every useful type of pleasurs vehicle is represented, their comfortable seats and speedy looking wheels teasingly inviting the viewer to drive them over the rolling uplands that spread toward the Sea. Almost every sort of wheeled ve- hicle, but not all, The automobile tribe are conspicuously absent. The hissing steam, with its thousand-pound danger pressure In its boiler; the coughing, asth- matic, gasoline engined contrivance and the electric, which cannot get away from trolley wires, are all banished from this horse paradise. ‘What a prosalc thing the automobile FORTUNE SPRNT IN THIS PALACE FOR TREIR RORSES. stable of the future will be. No smeil of hay, no feed racks or cat and bran bins— nothing but a gasoline tank for a feed box and a copper wire for a hitching strap. A stable without straw, else the sato- mobile might set fire to it. Next after the great coachroom is = small one, fllled with lightweight saddles for use on the hunters and polo ponies. There are six each of thess very im- portant and aristocratic animals, having a boxstall aplece, with new-mown hay scat tered thick over the floor, luxurious as a Turkish cozy corner, every one of them. No better on in humanity to dumb animals could be care and forethought with planned this mod pets. A horse is no dumber than he is made; they are proud of the posse: man affect of the velvety sniff the orange blo ess drag overloads ng weary bruising cobbles be as friend e as Kk * kindness meant. It take advantage of a horse has a small brain and a k It must be an idea! tlo; ns © eage or me ith the fact phere of k ers, eve s always 1= pled, fo of master of the aces uponi b obligation of his whips, to say nothing of the en upon horseflesh w ure life n Each of the ri of exercise every day up for the approa: These ho hunting horn as wel when one is blown instantly popped the open “mill showing by their eagerness oy the prospect of a heir riders, if it may way they jump, with the master of th posite corner of the quadrargle. It takes little to make a horse so happy. Would that there were mo ike the Car- olans. o+ + Courtship of Javages. Dyaks no ¥y g horses has his hour o harden him season his prowess by & or children. Am offers the maide: nuts. If she acc she refuses and says blow up the fire,” missed. Sometimes on throygh the n but if ugh to eks and forehead ribes of Madagascar paints his nose, ch soot. Among some the boys decorate leaves, flowers and der to please the women. New Britain blacken knock out others, knowing that other- wise they run the risk of being sed by the omes of their choice on account of ugliness. A woman in that beautiful land would “scorn to accept the addresses of one possessing white teeth, like a dog or a pig.” A girl who has arrived at a mar- riageable age has her teeth filed. The beaux of mbesi flle the middle teeth in the upper jaw into the form of & swallow’s tail one province of Tas- broke out when their teeth and orders were once use of ocher and men feared the of their country Among the Gua- rayos the suitor, wh surting. keeps for days close to the cabin of th his heart, being painted foot, and arthed with his battle club. The Melanesian women do the ter, and gives her a ring of sister says to her bro have gocd T you. A wo you." If wi to g0 on with through the sister, an appal made and the following dialog place: he man says: “You ‘Yes 1 like you proper, .t heart ke me pro with my ln'fll!nl to give himself away rashly, e asks: “Now you like me “I like you' altogether. skin good.” The girl, anxious to clinch the matter, asks when they are to be marri —d The man says: “To-morrow, If yc ltke."* There Is & mock fAght, when thay tell their relations, and everything is settled. In Maoriland the girl generally begins the courting. The love token which the rl throws at the fee of her lover is & ittle bit of flax, made in a sort of knot. “Yes” ugnmed by pulling the knot tight; “N ¥ leaving the matri- monial noose alone. Your