The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-08
BoER WOMEN GOOD HArERs.
They Have No Love for the English
People.

From the New York Tribune
1.-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 ancestry, prob
ably some Dutch of French Huguenot ex-
lie, Trekked' to the command of The out
lander, 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 TWEEN
ty-three children. This is not an uncom-
mon 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 veidt
Good features and beautiful complex
ion are common to the Boer woman, and,
although she may only live in a 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 not
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 a foreigner unless he or
she be an American; then a metamorphosis
takes places. Her eyes sparkle, a little
added color flies to her cheeks S she says:
Ito The. g,t1r ,VKrFaf
''She is energetic to such degree that
Il tires an American woman who Is not
tmb 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 cost of $4,000 or
100000, in a village of not over 1,OOO lnhap-
itants.
4lFTer lazy black native servants have to
be told every day, from the time they ar
rive from their distant nuts in the morn
ing until night just what they must do.
The Kaf11r has no memory Tor the Whlte
mans work. and therefore a sharp stick,
well laid on his back, is the only argument
which the Boer frau uses and which VIII
make him work. -
.She can always get servants, strange TO
saw. while her English neighbor VIII be
forced "a do her own work through lack of
understanding how to rule them. Untl
one lives in the country and closely oo-
serves the customs of the Cape people IN
governing the native, the servant question
remains as difficult to solve as here.
'r77he Boer frau stays at home and runs
The farm (of several thousand acres) Wniie
the men of the family go to war, and her
Inherited and acquired hatred of the Eng
fish is so intense that she slories in being
able to send her sons TO destroy tnem'
she is extreme in her likes and disiuSes'
and the Englishman has no bitterer zoe
than the Boer frau.
soThe English have no love for primitive
cultured neoule and they have on sew
eraI occasions presumed upon the outward
arnearance Of timirity in the Boer, and ~
urn been soundly thrashed.
acnro enc b,tt Americans could ever ANAL
gap,ate with the Beers and that will never
DO, because Americans have enough 20 DO
in developing natures storehouses In their
o+,,n country. for the poorest mines In
Crinple Creek, Col, which are not con-
s;dered worth working, are richer than the
yicbest mines in the johannesburg gold
a.