the
condition of genius with her. Five handsome side-wheels round the
ring, and a flying jump on the horse, then several complete
somersaults on the horse's back while he is in movement round the
ring, is not to be slighted for consideration, and if, as I have said,
you have a love or even a fancy for this sort of entertainment, you
all but worship the little lady for the thrill she gives you through
this consummate mastery of hers.

"I always wanted to do what the boys could do, and I was never
satisfied until I had accomplished it." This was the strongest
assertion the little lady of the horse was moved to make while in
conversation, and that the ring is more beautiful to work in than on a
mat upon a stage, for it is in the ring that the horse is most at
home, it is easier for him, and gives him greater muscular freedom,
with the result naturally, that it is easier on the muscles of the
human body while in action. I have never tired of this species of
entertainment. It has always impressed me as being the most natural
form of transposed physical culture, esthetically speaking. It does
for the eye, if you are sensitive, what music does for the ear. It
gives the body a chance to show its exquisite rhythmic beauty, as no
other form of athletics can, for it is the beautiful plastic of the
body, harmonically arranged for personal delight.

It is something for so young a woman to have walked away with first
honours in her chosen field, yet like the true artist that she is, she
is thinking always of how she can beautify her accomplishment to a
still greater degree. She is mistress of a very difficult art, and yet
the brilliancy of her performance makes it seem as if it were but the
experiment of an afternoon, in the out-of-doors. Like all fine
artists, she has brushed away from sight all aspects of labour, and
presents you, with astounding ease, the apparent easiness of the
thing. She is powerfully built, and her muscles are master of
coordination, such as would be the envy of multitudes of men, and
with all this power, she is as simple in her manner and appearance as
is the young debutante at her coming out function. You are impressed
with her sweetness and refinement, first of all, and the utter lack of
show about her, as also with her brother who is a dapper young man of
the very English type, who works with her, and acts as the
dress-suited gentleman in this acrobatic ringplay of theirs. Three
other members of her fam