192 LADIES ON HORSEBACK. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Ladies on Horseback. 



To the Editor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic 



News. 



Sir, — I have read with keen interest the 

 article on '' Ladies on Horseback " in your last 

 number. I find several things in it which 

 differ from my preconceived ideas, but it is 

 impossible not to perceive that the writer, 

 Mrs. Power O'Donoghue, speaks from an 

 exnerience which makes her an undoubted 

 authority. With reference to safety-stirrups, 

 for instance. I have always seen that the 

 ladies of my family were provided with them, 

 and your contributor's objection seems not to 

 be based upon the mechanism of the stirrup 

 w^hen in proper order, but on the circumstance 

 that it is ^' almost invariably stiff," through 



