The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1899-12-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
| WOMAN'S WORLD.
The eoER WOMEN.
They Hun the Farm when tho Men Arc
Fighting.

Fighting.
THE Beers are distinct race by
themselves" said Louise Vescelius
Sheldon, who lived thr ee yelrs in South
Africa. "They are and always will
remain primitive men and women, who
prefer to live on isolated farms. far
from any neighbors. The Boer women
are very. prolific, many of them hav-
ing from fifteen to twenty-three chill
dren. This is not an uncommon fact,
and these children are ruled by their
mother with a strong but silent hand.
The women of this race are tall and
massive, with giants for sons, whom
they bring up in barefooted freedom
to run over their native veldt.
Good features and a beautiful com
plexion arc common to the Boer
woman, and, although she may only
live in n primitive house Of cement
and clay, she is most careful of her
looks. When in an OK wagon or Cape
cart she drives with her face swathed
in folded linen, allowing only the eyes
to remain uncovered. The hot winds
that sweep over the country from the
kalhari Desert blister and burn and
play havoc with the skin.
=. She Is not as ignorant as one would
suppose, but she lacks that worldly
wise self-possession which the English
woman has cultivated. She is in a
way shy and speechless before n for
eigner, unless he or she is an Ameri-
can; then a metamorphosis takes place.
Her eyes sparkle, little added color
flies to her cheeks rs she SAYS, "You
come from republic like our own. ="
She is energetic to such u degree 1hat
it tires an American woman who is not
n club woman to watch her Her re-
ligion is of the Dutch Reformed creed,
aud she and her family trek into
town every three months TO beauti-
full church built of stone, erected ut n
cost of $780, 900 or 500, 600, IN village
Of not over one thousand Inhabitants.
The BOer frau stays OF home and
runs the farm (of several thousand
acres) while the men of the family go
to war, and her Inherited and acquired
hatred of the English is so intense
that she glories i'll being able to send
her sons to destroy them. She is cx-
treme in her likes and dislikes, aud
the EnSlishman las no bitterer foe
than the Boer frau.
"Olive Schreiner, the writer, mar
ried Cape Dutchman, who, i'll honor
of his wife's fame, changed his name
to Schreiuer. She has since pushed
her husbands political interests to
such an extent by identifying herself,
through her pen, with the interests of
Cape Colony that he is now Prime
Minister of that dependency.
''The great Diamond King the
late Barney Barnato, was a character
in the financial world of South Africa.
He married woman from Cape Town
who was n beautiful little creature.
with dainty features and swarthy skin,
and eyes as black as sloes. They were
married twelve years when his oppor-
unity came of doubling his fortune in
the gold fields Of South Africa. At
one time he was said to be worth
500, 100000. which lie had accumu-
lated in ten years. During that time
his wife gave birth to four children.
mo one but Americans could ever
amalSamate with the Beers, and that
will never be, because Americans have
enough to do in developing Natures
storehouses i'll their owl country, for
the p )orest mines in Cripple Creek.
Col, which are not considered worth
working, are richer than the richest
mines iii the johannesburg gold
h'ld". New York Tribl n.