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Second article in "Learn to

Ride" Series

How

tells-

to look

URING your first riding lessons the instructor is certain to concentrate on your seat in the saddle.

Until you have n natural, well-balanced sent you cannot have good hands; you cannot, in fact, be a good rlder.

When your stirrup leathers have been adjusted, ta

is correct and comfortable length you will be made to walk round the school. The position of your feet, lega, hands, and body will be criticised.

So many beginners think that a good seat means a stiff hollow back with the shoulder blindes almost meet- ing behind. This In all very well for a company of Guardsmen on parade, but it is absurd for hacking pur

poses,

Your rent in the saddle should be natural and easy, the earrings should be upright, but not stiff, your body and arm should move backwards and forwards with the movement of the horac.

deal model

1. F

ever

lived

in

YOU have London, or Australia, or Canada, you have the excellent example of the mounted police always before your eyen.

if you were ht all observant you would have noted the position of the legs of one of these mountles; his heels well down and his toes early In #straight line with his kucer,

And you would have noted how englly he sits In the saddle. His seat is free from any offer- tation or exaggeration, comfortable and at the

time completely cirgant anel business- Jike.

well

on a horse

Finest. exercise

to develop

knee-grip

Do not be discouraged if trotting seems impossible the first time or 1wo. You will be thrown and bumped about, the stirrups will ny frun your feet, and you will fol stiff and perhaps a little sore next day (try a mustard bath).

The chances are, however, that by the third lesson you will fimul your- self rising in perfect time with the horse; it only needs a bit of prae- lee, Just like learning to balance on a bicycle.

erfect safety

ERHAPS the grentest advan- tage of learning to ride in an en- closed school is the facility with which you can, in perfect safety, practise the art of riding without reins or stirrups. A mastery of this art is the shortest cut to a good stai and perfect balance.

CALL QUMIENI NA DR.

CASTORIA

MEDICINAL SYRUP fat pesandating the land and trusting the

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-and incidentally, how to keep on, too

On the quiet, specially trained horses of reputable riding establish- inent you can jog round the school with your arms folded, and your feet free with for greater eage and con- flence than you could out in the open on a leading refu.

By on this your body will be- rone iulependent of your ortus and you will not develop the criminal imbit of holding on by the horse's south,

AL the end of your lesson (or possibly In the middle) the In- is sure to give you some *striktor

exercises to improve your grip and develop your riding muscles,

wards on to the withers and then that the boom is different from the bending right, buck till your head touchen the horse's croup (see ilus- tration).

"Arc there any exercises 1 can practise at home, between rides?"

is a question I have been asked by

many a beginner.

Yes, there are.

The exercise, for

example, of leaning forwards and backwards enn be prnetised astride a barrel, or if you belong to a sports club, with a gymnasium, astride the vaulting horse from which the handles have been removed.

our balance

You

These are done' while the horse is standing still and include grip- pihg and relaxing the saddle with

OU may be lucky enough to your knees; rising right up out of have access to a gymnasium. it so the suddle without stirrups; and,

balance walking as with your arms folded, leaning for-

possible. You may laugh and say

HIS TINY TUMMY

Is so easily upset that medical authorites.warn. against giving him any but the gentlest of luxa-

tives, Castoria is recog- nized as the genit lest, millest and safest laxative for babies. Yet it's thoroughly effec- tive and easy to administer, Cas- toria does not com

tain castor oil.

THE CHILDREN'S LAXATIVE

CASTORIA

THE

COUNT "TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

do as much

saddle, but any means by which you can Improve your natural balance will be of inestimable help to you in your riding.

The exercise which you can prac- se all the time, while you are do- ing your work or eating your meals, is sitting up straight. I repeat that seat on a horse should be a natural seat.

If your natural habit is to arch your back Into # half moon you will never look well on a horse even you straighten out in the saddle,

But develop the excellent habit of sitting up in your chair, and in the anddle you will automatically look part of the horse,

Muriel King

for

SWEETS

SLIMMERS

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IF tó keep on the right side of your clothes and scales, you have started on a no-mixing-of-starch-and-protein diet, you are probably suffering an ache for puddings. Here are directions for inaking two sweets which you can enjoy without a guilty conscience. They contain no starches, only proteins....

POTS

DE CRENE

Measure enough milk to All some little fire-proof pots, allowing une to each person. Put the milk in a saucepan with one saccharine tablet to each pot, and any flavouring, such as strong coffee, kirsch, Coco, etc.

Bring to the boil, then allow the milk to get cold. Add egg yolks, one to each pot, to the flavoured milk, 1 the pots, stand them in wa ter and cook in a very slow oven till the mixturò is set and quite firm.

Serve cold.

CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

Put two eggs in a basin with dve sevharine tablets. Stand the basin in a saucepan of bolling water on the stove and beat for a few.

ninutes.

Mix 3 oz. cucon with a little cold mitt to a paste. Boil two ten* cups of milk and pour over the cocoa. Couk for ten minutes and then pour on to eggs-add two tablespoonfuls of coffee essence and four feves of gelatine which have been soaked. Stir till cool, strain into a souffle dish and stir in two tablespoonfuls of cream.

Serve when set and cold.

A Lay Sermon

By HUGH REDWOOD

"CALLED you, Birded you,

gave you your name, though you did not know Me." So anys God, through His prophet, to Cyrus, who broke the power of Babylon and sent the Jews home from exile. We

f have surnamed must rend his-

thee.

tory to see IRATA, xlv., 4. what makes the - statement re- markable, It is this. Isniah's

words were written well otter 100 years before Cyrus was born, They were written, in fact. dimin that dark period of oppression, invasion and... -cup- tivity which began when King Uzziah diech. The name of Cyrus, at that time, meant no- thing to the Jews. But it meant mighty things to God. It signi- flea, in Persian, "sun," and the book of Imfah is witness that in Israel's night God was planning the sunrise.

It is dark again now, but there are promises still to be fulfilled, and one concerns the last liber- ation (Rev. xl., 15). God's plans for that concern you. You may not know Him, ul. He is call- ing, ready to gird you, ready to give you n Kreater Bame thon Cyrus bore. The Day makes hendway against the Dorkness whenever Jesus saves a sinner and a loving God surnames that sinner "son."

Put on Your BONNET

Trst glance it would seem that this hat was inspired by

reality it is atarclied pique, bonnet-shaped affair, worn on the back of the head in the approved

Parisienne Aigle,

8tur pique trin mings niso ap- редг on the matching gloves, and, at the throat, giving a well laundered air to a summer outfit.

Another model house decided

with

that the best plan was to wear your heart on the crown of your head and produced an off-the-Ince hat crown designed in this shape.

Other large hats have an up-at-the- front and down-at-the-back brim, com- fortable co long as your cont is collar- Ica.

The newest beret is set well on the back of the head like a flaherman's cap, with a band of white pique com- Ing from the sides and tying in the middle of the forehend,

LOOK GAY...

ONCE you bought a

waterproof......... junt. to keep you dry. To- Bucji day they are bright affales that you feel tempted to wear them in the sunshine

when

it's

grey

as well. They follow the same fashion lines as our tailored clothes, and those that are being shown this season f proofed shantung and linen wol appear- on the beach as an extra bathing wrap and be used as light summer conts as well.

Then there are the mackintoshes But fuld up into an envelope-shaped bag of the same material. Cape water- proots that you can roll up and put in a capacious handbag.

Others are tailored on swagger lines with huge pockels, large revers audi enormous butions decorating the front. They are colourful, too, reds, greens, blues being favourite colours among many others.

Patterned in various designs In stripes. opals and cliecks, they give a gay look to a grey day,

Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori

MASSAGE

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4. Wyndham Street, (Ist floor). Tel. 26031.

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I Showing how Serb armaments may cause considerable confu- sion.

B-Placed in a position..

A non-conformist, who might be placed in

11 these, but not in a golfer's bag, 12 Cul,

14 Ecclesiastie.

15 The tone introduced by a very

detestable person.

18 False Post Office Order?

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considered

trifles here, but Certainly not a sheep (hyphen 27 Make entry. 28 Frequently

of some under a dozen.

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39 Apparently the old privateer went off his head with anger.

30 Do rise, I cannot in deliberation.

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2 It's all up with the other ninety-nine, though. on the whole, harmonious.

3 High spots In the Landes,

4 This is left when, alas! all else

Is gone.

5 Has a walk with the little

people.

A light wine that would spoll a famous Victorian journalist,

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the wealthy Easterner. The

first girl in Pantomime (Iwo words, 9, 3).

10 A designing gentleman who lives on; to him, precious stones. 13 Details.

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deal to this game.

25 Having a pull I go in with the

entertainer.

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