The Field

THE FIELD FROM THE ARCHIVES

At all the varying seasons of the year the thoughts of women must turn to dress, and never more anxiously than just before the beginning of the hunting season. It is a fact worthy of notice that when a woman has not been used to hunting, or to living with hunting people, as often as not she fails in appearance somehow when attired for the chase, even though she happens to be the kind of woman who is always faultlessly turnout out, and who invariably wears the right thing on every other occasion.

In these days, too, each season finds many young women who have passed their childhood

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