hostess are driving together, the
guest should enter first, taking the farther seat, facing the front of
the carriage, so that it will not be necessary for her hostess to pass
her. When a mother and daughter enter a carriage, the mother precedes,
and the daughter sits by her side if no other lady is present. In case
of two daughters, the elder sits by the side of the mother, and the
younger sits opposite.

The fashionable hours for driving are from two-thirty to five in the
winter, and from three to six-thirty in the summer.

Young women never ride horseback in cities or in public parks without
an escort. In the country the rule is not so rigidly enforced. In case
a groom is the escort, he rides slightly behind, keeping watch that he
may be of service.

A riding-habit should be absolutely neat, simple, and inconspicuous.
The hat should be plain, the hair compactly done, and the whole effect
of the costume trim serviceableness and grace, rather than prettiness.

In mounting a horse a woman gathers up her habit in her left hand, and
stands close to the horse with her right hand on the pommel of the
saddle. The man who assists her stoops and places his right hand with
the palm up at a convenient distance from the ground. The lady then
puts her left foot into his hand, and springs up into the saddle with
his assistance.

It is necessary, first, to have a firm seat; secondly, a skillful hand
on the rein. One should sit in the middle of the saddle, in an easy,
natural position, with the body not stiff but supple and responsive to
the motion of the horse. The elbows should be well in to the side, in
a line with the shoulders, and the hands should be relaxed and yet
responsive to the slightest pull of the rein.

It is no longer considered wise and necessary for a woman to use a
side saddle. In the freedom of a graceful divided skirt, she strides
the saddle as do the men, and therefore has an equal chance with them
to ride gracefully and safely,--a privilege which fashion long denied.

To keep to the right always is the only safe rule in the United
States. In England and Canada the rule of keeping to the left is
observed with the same rigidity.

In business life it is not good form to dine with your employer. This
does not include a ban upon those business dinners, where there is a
group of people, the majority of them men, with one or two unmarried
business women of equal or superior business standing, who meet over
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