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district of the Rockies, Miss Bird adds : '* I rode sidewise 

 till I was well out of the town, long enough to produce a 

 severe pain in my spine, which was not relieved for some 

 time till after I had changed my position." 



Mrs. Power O'Donoghue runs a tilt with all her might 

 against the idea of any of her sex riding like men. But 

 there are so many manly maidens about now who excel in 

 all open-air pastimes requiring pluck, energy, physical 

 activity, and strength, and who attire themselves suitably in a 

 sort of semi-masculine style, that is not asking too much of 

 them to try the virtues of the cross-saddle. Their costumes 

 are not so much neglige as studiedly, so far as is possible 

 without exactly " wearing the breeches " in public, of the 

 man, manly. One of our Princesses has the credit of being an 

 adept with the foils ; our cricket and golf fields are invaded 

 by petticoats of various lengths; we see polo played by 

 ladies on clever blood ponies ; they take kindly to 

 billiards and lawn-tennis ; and it is whispered of a few that 

 they can put on the " mittens " and take and give punish- 

 ment. It is not so much the prudery about sitting like men 

 that excites the wrathful indignation of the opponents of 

 cross-saddle riding as the apparent difficulty of deciding 

 upon the thoroughly neat and workwoman-like costume. 



The three different costumes represented in these sketches 

 do not differ very greatly in propriety. Shorten No. 3, the 

 Eilitto Muddy-Weather costume — who says there's nothing 

 in a name? — just a trifle and encase the wearer's lower 

 limbs in a pair of Messes E. Tautz and Son's gaiters or 

 leggings, and we have the costume sported the winter before 

 last by a well known lady. It certainly looked, on a wearer 

 of advanced years, a trifle eccentric, but any pretty girl, 

 in her premiere Jetmesse, blessed with a good figure and 

 gait, would have been the admired of all admirers. This 



