Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1883 — Do More Horse-Back Riding. [ARTICLE]

Do More Horse-Back Riding.

I don’t think the girls in the country, or the boys either, for that matter, do half enough horse-back riding. It is the exception in my “neck of the woods” io see a youth of either sex riding a horse for pleasure or to do village errands. The universal buggy, in its fu-

nereal black, has taken the place of the saddle, the trot, and the canter. I believe, with Dr. Holmes, that “the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man;” and wish the boys and girls, and the young men and women, would take to the saddle as those did of a generation ago. Dio Lewis may be considered a little cranky by “regular” (old fogy) practitioners, but his writings are fuller of common-sense suggestions than an old school pill is of calomel, and they are worth ten times as much to an invalid. In speaking of a consumptive case cured (lungs healed) by daily exercise on horse-back, he says: “Of course I do not disparage other features of the needed regimen, but the saddle-horse is the Hamlet of this play. Ido not believe in ‘specifics,’ but the saddle, in consuiqption, comes very near one.” — Prairie Farmer.