Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-21

rules Of hospitality you ride up and dis
mount amid an assortment of yclping
monRrel ours. A Hottcntot boy clad
In a fragment OF
A CAST OFF SHIRT
or an old artillcryman'a tunlo and fresh
air takes your horse. Ten TO one no
one VIII appear. 80 you stride on TO the
ftocp and through the door. The same
odds prevail that Mr.. Boer and his olive
branches VIII be setting aolomnly Ia the
room drinking black coffee minus
milk and sugar. amid cloud
of tobacco smoke, which
suggests smoulderlng rag carpets. and
files tscrcvn doors. even among the
English. are unknown In South Africa.
Patcr famillna grunts 'daag,' ana you
proceed 10 make "a circuit and touch the
Outstretchod hands Of the entire family,
including the Juveniles. who are always
umniprcHrut. They all get Htlll ana
stare you oft Of cuuntenaucc or make
eotto voce dcrogatory remarks In
kafilr-Dutch.
silence rcigns supreme Tor pcrchancc
an awful i've minutes while you are be-
Ing ecrutlnizcd. Finally sou are Of
fcrcd
CUP OF AWFUL COFFEE
from the urn on a sldeboard. This
beverage Ia always on tap IN "a ll0cr
usohold ana IN kept brewing the live
long day. BY degrees mine host thnwa
out and proceeds TO put you through
your PAGES, No unenae o. lntcndod. Il
ID Just his peculiar way. and you are
quite al liberty Co do likewise. Your
name IL asked, occupation, age, deatlna-
tion. state Of your finances, married or
single, ana other questions along the
same lines that would make census
taker yellow with envy.
Whllcst on the coffee topic. The
Beers are OF Dutch origin. although the
language they now speak IN no more
like High Dutch than Oleomnrgnrlne IL
like Best Creamery. Unlike their follow.
putchmon In far on Holland. the Beers
would hardly capture the blue ribbon
for cleanliness, To put II mlldly-their
ADDITIONS nre few and far between.
Some seven years ago the writer highly
offended Boer family residing near
Crndock, Cape Colony. by refusing
politely to pariake Of the coffee cup Of
peace. Madame frau was caught In the
very act OF wiplng my cup, preparatory
TO filling u. with a napkin she had been
previously using TO wipe the opthalmlc
eyes OF her son and heir. l promptly
passed.
a visit TO an average Boer family IN
the voldt, 20 say the least Is very try.
ing 90 the novice until he gets verfed
IN Afrlcander etiquette
Lumber being a scarce commodity,
the floors Of "a Boer homestead arr con-
utruotcd from connection " pulver-
ICED ant heap, COW cNcrcment, and
bullocks blood, which forms "a glossy
cement-llke surface For fuel, the cat
tie and stock kraals are cleaned out
Hemi-aunually, the deposit being cut up
into square blocks with the spade This
fuel burns tolerably Wen ana smells eX-
ceedingly so.
DOM PAuEs PLEASURES.
IL must not be Inferred that the Boer
has no pleasures His great passions
are centercd In his horse aud his gun,
ana he Is n past master In the art OF
handling either. lie also dances In an
olephantlne fashion. likewise he drinks
somewhat and distllls a Tophet-like
beverage, which goes by the name OF
Cape Smoke"
Taken altogether Boer dance Is n
| dellriouH entertainment. Imagine the
farmhouse cleared for action and old
"tante" slowed carefully away In a
corner In her arm chair while the COM
/ pany arrives from within radius Of,
say twenty miles. The light fantastic
tripporH arrive In Cape carts, spiders
and on horseback young men
and buxom lasalea with good humored
When
LONE FIDDLER
can be secured the company In IN Glow
er; generally the popular lioor instru-
ment In the form Of an asthmatlc ac-
/ Gordon makes music for the marcy
/ measure. The fun wakes fast and fur
| ious as the evening draws out, on
those bllthc B0er dRmselsl Those mas
sive waists and how cne'H arm does
ache next morning, How hlltholy they
smile aloud ns amid the Intoxicating
polka they plant number nine on ones
patent lcathcra with reolslessneas born
VI the free air OF the voldt
A RELIGIOUS PEOPLE.
Although the average Boer likes his
| mild pleasures and dissipation he draws
the line at theater and withal, taken
az people, the hardy South African