Scribner's magazine . 14 THE NORTH SHORE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Entrance to the Grounds of the Essex County Club encountered nowadays along the coun-try roads of the strict old county ofEssex, are a vast improvement, from anaesthetic point of view, over the sombrechaises and inelegant nags by meansof which our forefathers endangeredtheir chances of salvation. The charmsof out-door life on the North Shorehave fostered a taste for riding anddriving which has proved, alike in a hy-gienic and a liberalizing sense, of greatbenefit to both the sexes. Riding, atwhich most young ladies and many menin the N


Scribner's magazine . 14 THE NORTH SHORE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Entrance to the Grounds of the Essex County Club encountered nowadays along the coun-try roads of the strict old county ofEssex, are a vast improvement, from anaesthetic point of view, over the sombrechaises and inelegant nags by meansof which our forefathers endangeredtheir chances of salvation. The charmsof out-door life on the North Shorehave fostered a taste for riding anddriving which has proved, alike in a hy-gienic and a liberalizing sense, of greatbenefit to both the sexes. Riding, atwhich most young ladies and many menin the North used to shy, has become,in several sections of the countiy, andconspicuously on the Beverly shore, afavorite form of exercise and the conduct of the Myopia HuntClub, fox-hunts after the English pat-tern engage the enthusiastic attentionof a considerable number of young andmiddle - aged people during the earlyautumn months. The beautiful inlandcountry about AVenham, Hamilton, andTopsfield has become a race-course for this hunting ele


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