Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1914 — As to Amazons. [ARTICLE]

As to Amazons.

Not a few fancy horseback riding for women is comparatively new. To be sure onr great-grandmothers rode on pillions, but they were of a day when It was the fashion to be delicate. Later the sex took up riding, sidewise of course, but now many ride across just as did the Amazons of old. Though having the Amazon river for q namesake, these doughty dames are . supposed to have come froffi the country about the Caucasus, -their chief seats being along a river whiefi empties into Hie Black sea. They invaded at various times Thrace, Asia Minor, lßlands e of the Aegean, Greece, Syria, Arabia, Egypt and Libya. The ninth labor of Hercules was to take from them the girdle of the queen of the Amazons. It was a very unpleasant affair, as you no doubt remember. Instead of showing fight, Hlppolyta was sensible to his manly charms and gave him her girdle without a struggle and even went boating with him. Juno took alarm, warned the Amazons that their queen was being carried off, and they descended upon the ship. Thinking Hlppolyta had been treacherous, Hercules slew her and sailed away with the girdle. So much for the Amazons.