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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3158, 2 April 1879, Page 1

One of the last ideas is that girls should be taught (o ride on both sides . with a reversablo crutch to the saddle ((remarks Mayfair), and the medical profession appears to recommend the practice, .as inducing a straighter carriage of the bo£y. Since the Princess of Wales' illness, ««d the affection of the knee from which she unfortunately suffered so much, she has always ridden on the wrong side of the saddle, or what wo are accustomed to think is the wrong side, and did we *not know her fair face so well already we should easily distinguish her in the Row by this fact. Her Koyal Highness, however, does not appear in the least degree incommoded by the change, and rides as gracefully, and with as firnf and apparently safe a seat, as ever she did. The Age of Steam —A certain clergyman was exhorting those who had .-troubled consciences to be surd and call on .their pastor for guidance. Said he, " T© show you, my brethren, the blessed ]results of these visits to your pastor, I j.will state to you that only yesterday a | gentleman of wealth called upon me for i counsel aud instruction ; aud now to-day» "ny friends—to-day he sits among us a hap» husband and father and a Christian." V *ng lady in the avdience whispered to ama f*on» " Wo*o'*' &*&& ui<?k work ? " _