IN THE RIDING-SCHOOL, 111 



to psalm and sermon by longing for the cool, 

 comfortable hats, which certain wise persons had 

 decided were too frivolous for the sanctuary. 



New York girls have worn white cloth habits 

 at Lenox without shocking the moral sense of 

 the inhabitants, but Lenox, during the season, 

 probably contains a smaller percentage of sim- 

 pletons than any village in the United States, 

 and some daring Boston girls have appeared this 

 year in cool and elegant habits of shepherd's 

 check, and have pleased every good judge who 

 has seen them. If quite sure that you have as 

 much common sense and independence as these 

 young ladies, imitate them, but if not, wear the 

 regulation close, dark cloth habit throughout 

 the year, be uncomfortable, and lose half the 

 benefit of your summer rides from becoming 

 overheated, to say nothing of being unable to 

 "keep trotting" as long as you could if suitably 

 clothed for exercise. But might you not, if your 

 habit were thin, catch cold while your horse was 

 walking ? You might if you tried, but probably 

 you would not be in a state so susceptible to 

 that disaster as you would if heavily dressed. 



There is little danger that the temperature 



