Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1882 — RIDING HABITS. [ARTICLE]

RIDING HABITS.

Directions That May he Useful but That Sound Awftilly MysteriousThe latest fashions in riding habits require that they shall be fifteS by a tauor, though a clever woman ma? do the work herself by attending closely to this discription of liar cut : On the left .Ide, InfS a gore taken across to make room for the knee. This gore is not straight across, but forms a curve, making a. kind of jacket for the knee to fit in The stde breadth is like that of an ordinary skirt, but the back one is peculiar in many respects. First, there is a small gore on the U| per part, which terminates and commences again on the middle of the skirt. These gores have the same object as the one over the knee—that is, to form a space for the figure, allowing for the skirt to set properly without adding to its fullness. Other wise the wearer might be bursted out of the saddle, on the principle of the boy whose trousers were made with no fullness in the seat, and therefore pushed him off the doorsteps every time he bent to get down decorously. Fashion dictates that the habit must fit snugly from neck to toes and be made from heavy cloth. This necessitates the easement which I have described. The skirt is perfectly tight around the waist and mounted on a piece of silk galloon. On the right side, between the front and back breadth, it opens, and is fastened by buttons and buttonholes, and on the inside of this open part is the pocket. In front is a band of elastic, for the foot to pass through, like a stirrup, to keep the skirt down. • Were it not for this the dress would push up in riding. Still, that would be no great disaster, for underneath are trousers half leather and half cloth. They are closed and buttoned on each side of the hips, something like the old fashioned, flap-fronted breeches of our granddadies. The upper part is buckskin, and the legs are cloth, like the dress. The waist has two gores in front and a small side piece. The style is to be as flatbreasted as possible when on horseback. The side piece in the back is very narrow. The back has no seam down the centre, and forms a small basque, with the sids pieces falling over it and fastened on the inside of the pleat. The side pieces of the back and the back itself are thus joined by being placed one over the other. The buttons' should be very small and round. The tight sleeves button over at the wrist. On the lower part of the waist behind are three tongues with buttonholes, fastened to buttons placed a little below the belt of the skirt. The same arrangement is on the B?am under the arm. By this means the waist remains in the same place, no matter what movement there* may be in riding. Many women use fancy styles for riding habits, but such things do not last, and the plain dress is always elegant. Skirts have no more long trains as they formerly had. For a moderately tall figure the long side of the skirt is about a yard and a half, while the short one is rather more than a yard.

The embarrassments under which charitaby disposed eople frequentlv labor are shown by the case of a poor family applying for relief i n Erie. The mother came on a wintry day, clad in thin calico, and received twelve dollars with which to minister to the necessities of her povertystricken household. The poor woman was so pleased with this stroke of good luck that she immediately invested seven dollars in a nice new bonnet. Some time ago a Bucks county charitable committee gave a poor family fifteen dollars. The family consisted of a mother and three good-looking children. On receiving the money they went in a body to the photographer’s, in order to secure a picture showing how happy they looked while they had plenty of cash. They felt like millionaires as long as the,appropriation lasted, which, of course, was not a great while. In Ne/ada a liberal man, who took a notion to do a good deed, gave a melancholy one an order on the grocer for twentv-five dollars, payable in goods. The liberal man expected the melancholy man to make the best use of this in providing creature comforts for his suffering family. Instead of this the prodigal beneficiary succeeded in worrying out of the grocer ten dollars in cash and in getting from him fifteen dollars’ worth of wine and chocolate. Such cases are enough to make the liberal look closely at their cash before parting with it, or else follow it sharply to see what goes with it.

Colonel Bachelder, who is prepar* ing an official history of the battle of Gettysburg, with a view of getting the fullest and most accurate Infor* mation, has called two meetings of participants in the battle, to be held on the battle-ground itself. The (first will take place June 7, and will in* elude soldiers, Confederate and Union who took part in the fighting near £each orchard, Wheatfield, Devil’s ien, or Round Top. The second, to be held June 14, will include those who were engaged in the first day’s battle. All veterans. Union and Confederate, of any rank, who fought" on those occasions are invited to be present. "Fifteen special policemen from thfe Albany iron works, marshaled by Sergent Lem Hurlbut, and accompanied clerks Norman Shavek and Smith, formed a procession Saturday, carrying bags of gold on then shoulders through Albany streets.Themoneywas taken from the Albany City National bank, of v*hich Erastus Corning is president. The gold bearers who bad about >90,000 in their care, attracted much attention.