RIDIXG FOR LADIES. 



believe, in every size. Being impervious to wet, they are 

 an improvement upon even the best starched Hnen (which 

 they strongly resemble in appearance), seeing that the 

 latter gets limp and wretched-looking after even a trifling 

 shower. 



I think I have now entered into all particulars respecting 

 your ordinary riding gear. That for hunting will occupy a 

 chapter later on. Bear in mind that the more plainly you 

 are dressed, the quieter your appearance, and the less ob- 

 trusive your style, the more ladylike you will appear, and 

 consequently the more to be commended and admired. 

 It is only horsebreakers and women of inferior social 

 standing who seek to attract attention by conspicuous 

 action and costume. A lady shows best that she is one by 

 neither doing nor wearing anything that is in the smallest 

 degree calculated to provoke remark. 



I have really often thought that the reason why many 

 ladies look so much better in their riding-habits than in 

 ordinary walking attire, is that there is so much less op- 

 portunity, when so dressed, for wearing what is unbecom- 

 ing, or for conforming to silly fashions which only ser\c 

 to distort and destroy all the beauties of the human 

 form divine. On horseback we are spared the unsightli- 

 nesses of dress improvers, high heels, and high shoulders ! 

 The natural outline of the figure is revealed to us, and 

 with it we can find but little fault. " God made man in 

 His own image," said a country preacher to whom I 

 listened a short time since, " but woman makes an image 

 of herself!" 



