Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-08
rHE soeR WOMAN.
PlAin EnouEh. but Klssrd FlSD the crAdi"
 to the Grave

Plain Enough, but Kisssd EIsD the CrAdA"
 tO the Grave
 The Boar woman is unlovable ID appearance. Graces and modern ao- oomplishments are unknown to her. Handsome she is not nor Is her temper angelic. Her cooking wouEu often kill an ostrich, and her voice is not attuned to harmony. All that notwithstanding, the most kissed being on earth is the Boer woman
 From the cradle to the grave she is kissed-by great-grandfather ana great grandmother, by her grand father and grandmother; ot course she is kissed by her parents. She Is kissed by her grand unoles ana Aunts. by cousins male and female to the last degree of kinship. She Is kissed by the relatives of the above and by their relatives Her brothers and brothers-in-law, her sis ,ers and sisters-in-lsw and all their children kiss her. So does her sweet heart and all her female friends and acquaintances. Her husband and children and all her relatives and fe- male friends, residing long or short under her roof, kiss her repeatedly every day.
 Whether she and her husband are | in good circumstances or not he buys or sells nothing without ask ing her advice and abiding by it. lie undertakes no work without her sanction. She commands her mar ried son of 50 in the same way that she did when he was 5. He obeys and kisses her just as childlike She calls her husband by his Christian name to her friends. To others she speaks of him as the haas Ask her if he is her "baas. No, he Is her "nan." What white wom- an. she asks you, lever had mas Ger? Do you take me for Kafir womanY"
 The Boer woman could not con- oeive the idea of having master. In poverty most dire she has had from infancy at least one black serv- ant. Like her mother before her, she would see her daughters perish with hunger before she would allow them to go as domestic servants They are in her eyes the equals ot the most high born danes in any land, and servants they shall never be. She detests the thought of he1 sons working for an employer, but often has to give way on that point
 The Boer woman has often been held up as lazy, dull, stupid and dirty. A greater calumny has new CT been uttered against any woman, Her intense pride and love of inde- pendence make her appear So to the European lady or gentleman who knows nothing of the conditions ot life that have formed her custom: and made her what she is at present The Boer woman, with her chil dren, would retire to the most ariC desert of Africa and live on air soon CT than dwell at ease and in luxury where she entrusted unfavorably with her neighbors- She soOrns th' slightest patronage extended to her , no matter from whom.
 She has inherited an innate low of bright oolors and beautiful things
 When she cannot obtain these things she is content to wear the saddles oolored garments and not be trou bled by the most sordid and dreary surroundings.
 She rules her man" kind with | rod of iron. They do not know it , however, nor does she suspect it All of them would take oath tha
 the exact reverse was the case Asl
 her to speak in church or on plat
 form anywhere, and she would i'm Agine you to be crazy. That is { mans business, she would say Nevertheless Mrs. Boer would SC, to 1t that her man" or son would say in church or on a platform jus
 exactly what she wished said ? WomAn's rights as understood by ] the American woman would be ut
 terly inoomprshensible to the Boel woman were they ever so clearly
 explained. Boston Transcript.