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Baily's Magazine of sports and pastimes (1885)
Baily's Magazine of sports and pastimes - 1885 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES ON RIDING TOURS. Since the first paper on this subject appeared last month, two or three letters have been received from ladies asking why no advice was... more » given to them how to pack saddle-bags and accompany their husbands or brothers on riding tours; so, the desire to please the fair -sex being the highest motive of man, every care has been taken to afford the required information. Not an easy matter for a bachelor to accomplish, and many might have been daunted by the apparent hopelessness of giving satisfaction, for how can a man know the requirements of a lady on a tour ? Still the desire to please obliged the subject to be undertaken systematically, and it is hoped that the result will give satisfaction. The first thing was to find a saddle-bag suitable for a sidesaddle, so a visit was paid to Mr. Smith, 151, Strand, the Colonial saddler and outfitter, who has a waterproof canvas bag, 18 inches by 12, and expanding 6, which hangs to D rings on the off side of the saddle, with straps also to the girths to prevent shaking. The next thing was to try how much could be packed into it, and now came the working of a master mind. With a large acquaintance amongst the fair sex it was not difficult to choose three practical young ladies, to whom a prize (a box of chocolate) was offered for the best solution to the problem, and who should also give a list of what could be packed, which is as follows :—A thin silk dress, flannel undergarment, sleeping requirements, stockings (silk takes up least space), pocket-handkerchiefs, tennis slippers, brush and comb, etc., etc.; so it is to be hoped that etc., etc., comprises all the little necessary accesories to their toilet of which we men know nothing. The practical fair one (who well deserved that box of chocolate) also suggests the use...« less