The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-10
GEN JOUBERT AND OTHER BOERS
NATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
ask Commander Of the 7ransvsA Army Was BON IN Pill
sdelphia- nuge,s Niece Resident Of San Francisco.

| after an interest he had secured In one
OF the rich. gold and silver mine Of SOUTH
| ern Arizona.
sannie Kruser's grandfather was a mix
ture Of Boer, and English. the combination
being brought about before the great trek
In the beginning Of the century, when the
Beers and Engllsh fraternixed, and up to
that time had not acquired the deep hatred
they nave Tor one another at the present
day. Her grandmother was Boer girl
| and sister of the present wife OF Dom
Paul Kruger. while her father was neph-
ew OF the Transvaal president She is
therefore grandniece OF both Kruger and
his frau. On her mothers side she Is also
q great-niece OF Gen. Piet Joubert, This
condition OF AFFAIRS has been brought about
from the fact that the Beers intermarry
crossing the relationship until they exceed
| in completely and intricacy even the famed
relationships Of the West Virginia and
Kentucky mountaineers.
Educated I'm Europe.
Unlike most OF her countrywomen, San
ME Kruger was educated in Europe, tho
greater part OF her training being obtained
In France and Belgium, where she became
highly proficient In painting and music.
PRESIDENT Kruger severely condemns for
eign customs and a continental training.
but the fair slip of girl he calls his niece
SO captivated him that he forgave her this
offense and even overlooks the slight strain
Of English blood In her nature, which
probably, more than anything else, &C.
counts for her love of travel and her de-
termination to accompany her brother in
native country and come to America and
hazard his fortunes in the most progress
sive of Anglo-Saxon countries
In speaking Of her kinsfolk Miss Kruger
throws much light upon what Is generally
unknown In this coutry concerning her
people. The impression that usually OBJ
tains concerning the Beers is that they are
purely an agricultural people, with few
desires and simple tastes; and from long
contact with the savage tribes whose terri
tory they took by force, they have acquired
to greater or less extent certain bar
barity and coarseness not possessed by
more progressive people. She says:
We Beers are plain folk. with few
caste ana class lines, having strong
national feeling and desiring to be left
alone to govern ourselves as best we
zee It, The impression that prevails Is
due to the preJudices scattered broadcast
against us by the outlanders, who are
desirous OF taking by hook or crook our
lands and property which have, contrary
to first impression. proved very valua-
BILE, not alone In mineral wealth. but as
an agricultural community.
Life Of the "Doppers.v
TT is true that the doppers,' as we
call them, the plain farmers who live
on isolated FARMS and rarely IL ever
mingie with the life Of our cities or
towns, are more or less uneducated and
plain In their tastes; but in the United
States on the Western farms and in fact
settlers who are cruder and more primi-
tive In their way of living than our
'hayseeds are; A dopper' girl dresses
and looks as different from townbred
girl as your country lass does from your
city-bred maiden. Your farmers daugh-
tiers arc not duplicates of your daugh-
NJ Vynn md focI 4av
No more are we like the 'dopper' wo-
men. The .doppers' all dress in gowns
cut after the same pattern, cheap
print OF bright color made into a short
skirt for convenience sake, gathered full
+ around the waist. a blouse simply made
on By a" sun bo e on sundays aaa sop and
their gaudiest. brightest, and best
color, tied in 'Dutchy' bow-short. stir
loops, and long ends somewhat like the
fashion In vogue in this country several
I'VE girls of the cities and towns,
however, dress as fancy dictates. and 1t
Is no unusual thing to see copies of the
the dressing tables of these city bellies.
As rule. however. we dress very sim
ply Dying wing to ., the fact r that we ride
the men, we, cling to short skirts,
rather than trailing gowns The gem
Mother Hubbard and never @.s appear @arr in
anything else is a base libel on the
race. Perhaps In some of the outlying
farms this may be true, but our moth
ers, as a rule, wear a two-piece gar
ment the skirt and waist being simply
made while their children, as / have
before stated lean very strongly toward
foreign fashions, and adopt them on all
possible occasions.
ut is also generally asserted that
great deal OF Zulu blood is inter-
mingled with our race. This is another
English absurdity. We pride ourselves
upon our hereditary clannshness, and
we treat the Zulus and Basutos and
Mashonas simply as servants to do
the drudgery and other labor which
they are willing to perform to particle
pate to slight degree in the influences
of our civilization. We carry our re-
lationships almost to an absurdty, for
a Boer. even if he is only fiftieth
cousin Is a relative but from our GUS
tom of intermarrying all Boer families
are more or less closely related.
Like all Boer girls, am an excellent
shot. From sheer necessity we have
all been obliged to learn how to shoot,
and one of the first prerequisites of our
education is to hit bulls eye at long