Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1889 — Mules Now Good Form. [ARTICLE]

Mules Now Good Form.

New Yorkers are adopting the Southern fashion in a modified way of using finely bred mules as n substitute for horses for drawing phaetons and smaller vehicles in the park. Recently there have been noticed in the park several of these teams, all harnessed elalx>ratcly, and so spirited that they required experienced drivers to handle them. In the South finely bred mules are valued much higher than the average horse, and arc thought much more of because of their endurance, gentleness and sure-footedness. In the mountainous country of Tennessee and Georgia mules are a necessity, and the people make the most of it by regarding them as fashionable. As the animals iet to be very much attached to their owners, several Southerners who are wintering in New York city have inought them North and thus started the custom which promises to be wktbspre id within a short time. One of the prettiest incidents of a day spent in Central Park is the dashing past of a big village cart tilled with pretty, rosy-cheeked little girls drawn by a span of cream-colored mules, driven by a colored coachman, whose gray hair indicates that he remembers tire time when bis appellation for “Massa" for his employer meant something more than a title of respect