Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — TURNING OUT TO THE LERT. [ARTICLE]

TURNING OUT TO THE LERT.

An Imported N|ttl«h Fuhlon That friialii’H to h»t« Drlvlai Dangerou*. There is a new fashion in park driving which will cause trouble if it is persisted , in, says the New York Suh. A large ! number of coach and saddle horses have been imported from England within a few years. Many of these imported horses are kept in New York and aft now driven by their owners in the daily park parades. The young men who have not English born horses try own horses up in imitation of them, with clipped manes, banged tails, and English harness. Young men who drive dog carts take especial pride in having their horses, carts and men as English as importation or Imitation can make them. Some bright young man has discovered the way to tell the real English article from the imitation and other young men are taking advantage of his discovery as fast as they learn it, though the knowledge has not become general yet. Horses hare habits as muck as men. A horse that has been used to doing things in a certain way in his youth wants to pursue it when he grows up. In England drivers turn to the left in passing instead of to the right, as in this country. As an American-bred instinctively turns to the right an English horse turns to the left. Some young man noticed this and told his friends. It is now the correct thing for a (young man with an English horse in driving to pass his friends on the left. When other young men who haven’t English horses learn this they may try to turn their horses to the left, too. It will not be easy, for many American horses will, resent being forced to adopt English customs. It will not be a safe thing to attempt unless there is an understanding between both drivers, if you see two young men struggling to pass on the left when their horses want to goTeT the right, yon may know that they are not ignorant of the law of the road, but that they want to be as fashionable as other young men ' With real English horses.