Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — JOYS OF BUGGY RIDING. [ARTICLE]

JOYS OF BUGGY RIDING.

They say that buggy riding is conductive to tender feelings. We don’t see how it could very well help being so. When a young man in a sop-dish hat and polka-dotted socks drives up in his rubber tired buggy in front of the home where she lives, and she comes to the door all rigged out in things which we haven’t time to enumerate and trips down to the front steps and the young man just tosses her into the narrow seat and gets in beside her and taps the horse with the whip, while the buggy quivers like a thing of life ana joy forever, and she snaggles up to him like a tame gazelle or a kitten to a hot brick, and does all in ber power to soothe and sustain the tenderest feelings of the young man beside her who doesn’t know by this time but every minute will be the next one, we don’t see why buggy riding should not be conductive to the tenderest feelings of anything extant. Horseback riding is cold and distant. It is buggy riding that is conductive and the longer the ride and more lonely the road the more condactive it is.