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JAMES HARRISON. 
many men which they do not seem to be able to get, and I would 
advise the young man to go into the Government service. There 
is a great deal more that I might write on this subject, but I 
have already written at length and in a wandering style and 
hope you may derive some benefit from it. 
The Horse an Aristocrat: Representatives o'f The 
Rider and Driver have reported in these columns from time to 
time how the fashionable folk of London, Paris, Berlin, and other 
European cities have returned to the use of the horse for social 
functions, pleasure driving and riding. All the crowned heads 
and court officials and the nobility have adhered to the horse as a 
mark of distinction from the less discriminating crowd of people, 
and their example has been followed by persons of aristocratic 
preferment. It does not follow, of course, that these personages 
have discarded the automobile; both horses and machines are 
used in the same way that clothing is worn appropriately to occa¬ 
sion—mufti for undress or semi-sporting affairs, full dress for 
the higher social incidents and the traveling suit or country 
tweeds when going a distance or into the country. The horse is 
the full dress and pleasure medium, while the automobile serves 
as an affair of utility. Hyde Park in London and the Bois in 
Paris are thronged with horses. The bridle paths of Central 
Park are overcrowded and inadequate owing to the enormous 
popularity of equestrianism. Unfortunately for our driving 
pleasures, the automobile monopolizes the drives of the Central 
Park, and keeps the horses away. Were it not for this the “East 
Drive Parade,” which was one of the great attractions of New 
York a few years ago, would be again in vogue. We shall hope 
to see it restored when the people realize that the Park drives are 
not necessary for automobiles. In a recent interview, published 
in the New York Herald, Mr. Alexander Gemmell, of Scot¬ 
land, said: “The day is not far distant when fashionable New 
York will again be seen behind a pair of spanking horses, just as 
fashionable London now prefers to shop in Bond street and drive 
in the Park behind a pair of high steppers, rather than be un¬ 
recognized in a motor car, and so follow the fashion set by King 
George and Oueen Mary, who will not allow their guests to at¬ 
tend the royal levees in motor vehicles .”—(Rider and Driver.) 
