The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-13
MIR. AND MRS. KRUGER AT HOME
She DisapprOved His English Pa
jamas-He Sees Everybody and
Says Nothing.

She DisapprOved His English Pa
jamas-He Sees Everybody ana
Says Nothing.
An article entitled loom Paur' and
"Tante," by One who Knows Them,
which appears in the London Woman's
Weekly, contains some interesting partic-
ulars of the home life of President and
Mrs Kruger, who inhabit substantial,
albeit modest enough looking, dwelling in
Pretoria. loom Paul" and his household
are very early risers. Five O'Clock not
only sees the presidency astir, but the
President sometimes in his shirtsleeves!
sometimes in his schla-frock," sometimes
! in his Methodist -parson-like array of SOM
Der black, seated on the stoop in his ia
vorite big chair, and thoughtfully pulling
away at that long pipe of his-one of his
favorite friends.
From this hour till about 8, when his
secretaries arrive, "Oom Paul. may be APP
preached with impunity, although u
o'clock and also in the afternoon used
also TO be his favorite calling hours. Not
that much could ever be obtained in the
way of what one would call ."convcrsa-
ton" for loom Paul." though really an
| affable and kindly old gentleman when
mot on SHOW" is before strangers
brusque taciturn and morose by turns,
refuses to speak English, though he un-
derstands it as perfectly as you or l, and
insists on his visitors having a Dutch in
terpreter.
The Presidents conversation on these
| occasions is generally limited to III m"
land snorD. "Ya" (here pull at his
beloved pipe and subsequent liberal ex-
pectoration). Occasionally something will
strike him as funny, and he win give
gruff sort of laugh, as though in spite of
himself but, like the parrot of old, though
he says little, he thinks the more" and
often, days after visitor has departed,
"Oom Paul' will come out with some
startlingly shrewd remark as to that Wis
itor's conversation or personality
".lnte" is sturdy Dutch housewife of
the old stamp-one of the stock who in
the old lager days loaded the rifles, hand
ing them 10 the men who fought-yet wo-
manly withal.
In appearance "Tante," whose age I
should place at between 60 and 40, reminds
one of a motherly housekeeper of the good
old-fashioned style-theTe is no attempt al
''show" or fashion" in the cut of her
clothes. She hates the intrusive Uitlander
like a true Boer, and can't think why he
can't stay a home and mind his own
business" 1--WE don't want then-tell
them to trekr' she has been heard to ex-
claim defantly on more than one occa-
sion.
When recently some one was telling
"Tante" all about the rDum-Dum" bull
let's and the long distance the modern rifles
could reach-"falling right behind the kop-
jes and exploding there"-"Tante" was 81
lent and thoughtful for a moment. How
ever she soon regained her usual cheer
fitness, replying, in brisk tones: "Well,
then, If they fire behind the koDjes, the
only thing will be for US 10 sit in front"
on returning from his memorable visit to
England the President brought with him,
among other European "fads," one pair
of pajamas The first time "Tante" saw
him attired in these new-fangled garments
she queried sharply: What's that?"
Sleeping clothes from England" respond
ed Mr. Kruger. Then take them off
and come TO bed in your yedtshoen," quoth
"Tante," In tones that brooked no remon-
STRANGE on The part of her spouse, and
since that night pajamas have not been
seen or mentioned at the presidency
Voldtshoen are the boots or shoes most
of the old-fashioned Beers still sleep in, a
survival of the old trek" days.
one o'clock is the dinner hour, and
o'clock the Presidents customary bedtime
"a habit acquired during those early days
when the Beers home was in the OK wag-
on. Indeed it is the general hour for re-
firing to rest throughout the entire Boer
population.
The best photograph ever taken of Pres
idcnt Kruger Is little known. II was the
work OF Mr.. Connel, an English gentleman
In Pretoria, and taken to form the from
tispiece of a Dutch life Of loom PAUL"
the negative afterward being destroyed
-s-s-.-
The new editor Of the Johannesburg
Star is J. G. Hall, an American. He was