might as well be taken off and left at home.

Of course they are handy to have along if a lady wants to dismount, out
in the woods, and pick flowers, or climb a tree after a squirrel, but
the minute she gets in the saddle her legs are not worth the powder to
blow them up. And talk about exercise and developing muscle, walking a
mile is better than riding all summer.

In walking, the legs and all the muscles of the body are brought into
action, and the blood courses through the veins, and a girl looks like a
thoroughbred, but in horseback riding the legs lay dormant, get to sleep
and have to be waked up when the owner dismounts, and all the exercise
is got by portions of the human frame that never has seemed to us as
though there was absolute need of greater development.

It is true that horseback riding makes the cheeks-red. Well, blood that
wouldn't rush to the head after being churned that way wouldn't be worth
having. It has to go somewhere. It can't go to the legs, because
they are paralyzed, being curled up like a tailor, mending trousers.
Horseback exercise for ladies, on a side saddle, is a delusion and a
snare, and does not amount to a row of pins, and it never will be worth
a cent until women can ride like men. Then the lower limbs--now it is
_limbs_--will be developed and health will be the result, and there will
be no danger of a saddle turning and a helpless woman being dragged to
her death.

There is nothing indelicate about riding on both sides of a horse,
if they once get used to it. But they have got to get over this
superstition that to ride on horseback a woman must put her limbs up in
curl papers.

THE TROUBLE MR. STOREY HAS.

A dispatch from Chicago says that Wilbur F. Storey, of the _Times_, is
in a bad state, and that he gets around by leaning on his young wife
with one hand and a cane with the other, that he believes his latter end
is approaching, and that he is giving liberally to churches and has quit
abusing ministers, and is trying to lead a different life.

We should have no objections to Mr. Storey's going to heaven. However
much he might try to revolutionize things there, and run the place,
there will be enough of us there to hold the balance of power and
prevent him from doing any particular damage. Besides, we do not believe
he is responsible for the cussedness of his newspaper. It is the wicked
young men he keeps. The four that we know, Wilkie, Snowdon, Seymour
and Doc Hinm