IIORSE-BACK RIDING. HI 



slons of great joy ? Who Is it whose digestion Is not 

 better when all his thoughts are pleasant and joyful ? 

 And if I am asked why I select horse-back riding in 

 preference to any other form of exercise, or why it 

 influences the mental and moral nature to a greater 

 extent than any other, I answer readily because it 

 pleases more. Man (and I include here the best half of 

 mankind) grows all the fonder of horse-back riding 

 from practice ; he Is happy while riding, for there is 

 neither room nor time for sad thoughts. For the 

 majority of women it Is more than a mere pleasure- 

 party ; it is an occasion for a special toilet which is 

 becoming to almost all. 



