Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1889 — THE SCIENCE OF DRIVING. [ARTICLE]

THE SCIENCE OF DRIVING.

Hints on Managing Homi »nd Holding the Reins. Hints for driving of an unusually au thoritative character are found in a book recently published in England on that art from the pens of several contributors of recognized experience. The duke of Beaufort, for instance, says that the whip should be held at the collar, the silver plate about ten inches “onie the end. Two-handed driving is retested against ’ The right has no sort of business to touch the reins, except for ! the purpose of shortenfng.or lengthening i one or both of them, or of supporting the j left hand should it require assistance." i

such as bolding a puller or in turning. For driving four horses “the driving hand (the left) should be straight, in the center of your body, with the knuckles of your hand to the front and your forearm exactly square to the upper arm.” Then “having seated himself on the box the coachman should put forth his feet close together. His left hand should be about where the top of his trousen would come—that is, the forearm pretty nearly or absolutely horizontal— the hand almost, if not quite, in. the center of the body, with the back of his fingers and his knuckles straight to the front." Another contributor. Lord Atgeron St Maur, says: “As to your reins, they should be held as near your heart m possible, if you happen to have one; if not, where your heart ought to be.” The expounder of tandem-driving is Lady Georgian Curzon.