The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-18
AMONG THE AFaIKANDERs.
The BOer Women Have an Intense
Hatred of the English.

From the New York Tribune.
"The Beers of South Africa are a dis
tinct race by themselves" said Louise V.
Sheldon, who lived three years in South
Africa "They are and always will re-
main primitive men and women, who pre-
fer TO live on isolated farms, far from any
neighbOrs. The Beers ancestor, probably
some Dutch or French Huguenot exile,
'trekked to the command of the outland-
err who came and took possession of his
slaves and farm But he VIII not trek
again to please any enemy.
The Boer women are very prolific many
of them having from fifteen to twenty
three children. 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 are common to the Boer woman,
and, although she may only live in a slrim-
tive house of cement and clay, she Is
M careful of her looks. When in an
* 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
anu pidy ndNOC WIN the ShiH.
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 ana
speechless before a foreigner unless he
or she be an American; then a metamor-
phosis takes place. Her eyes sparkle, a
little added color flies to her cheeks as
she says, You come from republic like
our own
She is energetic to such a degree that
1t tires an American woman who is not
club woman to watch her. Her religion
is of the Dutch Reformed creed, and she
and her family trek into town every
three months to a beautiful church built
of stone, erected at a cost OF $50 900 or SEQ
600, in a village of not over 1000 inhabit-
ants.
Her lazy black native servants have TO
be told every day from the time they ar
rive from their distant huts in the morn
ing until night just what they must do.
The Kaffir has no memory for the white
mans work, and therefore a sharp stick
well laid on his back Is the only argument
which the Boer frau uses and which will
make him work.
She can always get servants, strange to
say, while her English neighbor will be
forced to do her own work through lack
Of understanding how to rule them TJntn
one lives in the country and closely OBJ
ntiNN1 tAtt thHNOuiH Vi NUt cape people in
governing the native the servant question
remains as difficult to solve as here.
The Boer frau stays at home and runs
the farm (of several thousand acres) while
the men of the family 90 to war, and her
inherited and acquired hatred Of the Ems
lish Is 50 intense that she glories in being
able to send her sons to destroy them She
Is extreme in her likes and dislikes. and
the Englishman has no b.tterer foe than
the Boer frau.
THE English have no love for primitive.
uncultured people, and they have on sew
eral occasions presumed upon the outward
appearance OF timidty in the Boer, and
In turn been soundly thrashed.
No one but Americans could ever ANAL
gamate with the Beers, and that will new
er do, because Americans have enough
to do IN developing natures storehouses
in their own country, for the poorest mines
IN Cripple Creek, Col. which are not con-
sidered worth working. are richer chan
che richest mines in the Johannesburg
gold fields"