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The Sidesaddle

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
April
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The horrified opposers of the movement ior women's riding en cavalier may be interested in learning that had it not been for an accident of fashion the gentier sex would be striding their horses still, and that tho sidesaddle is not an invention due to the advanced modcKty of civilization. It appcars that one Anna of Bohemia, eldest daughter of a Germán emperor and wife of an English king, introduced tlie custom, not from delicate repulsión to the old method, but simply because she was afflicted with some sort of deformity that rendered it impossible for her to ride upon the saddlcs in common use. In those d;iys it was imperativo that a woman should ride, accordingly the first sidesaddle was invented. Royalty had then, as now, snobbish followers ever on the alert to adopt f ashions honored by its patronage, and in a few months evcry woman of place in England possessed a sidesaddle and the custom was established.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Courier