The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-28

T. for there is a touch Of vanity In r.,.a
visi,es' She always tides up bit for
sorna 3. one IL not in the least hand
a franz snT mas wide-open black eyes,
f,,iI,t f anu kindly face. and wonder
years. lot one OF hei
eva Uofn Paul's little household is astir
Nery morning at five O'Clock II is @ I;t
We household now for o,t 81 ~ 10 a ~
az, .iuren which, between washing clean
hre,,, anu sewing, the model housewife has
still 1jvina INTO the world. only seven are
1iah iVihg. These sewn are already mar
Pre, anu comfortably settled in and around
motbar IA where their father and
thirtv-tbre se' She has had in the field
ba,.S 'lree grandsons, two of whom
iaxe peen killed: four sons. six sons-in-
anu numerous other relatives
ho,n "a' serves for the Krugers' official
nerIer - little two-story cottage. In the
80 u nice, neat set of black horse
nt aI furniture. which Tante has made do
/ ~, ~ SINCE she became Dom Paul's wife
taasi, arr Two much-cherished and spot-
lessly white marble-topped tables With
SnHne with II. The halls and walls % ~
liat.e cottage are scrupulously clean Once
10y year. when the hottest weather is
194em. '''' ''p 70
Hhree times since her marriage Tante
NJ NJ B er mas had her dining-room chairs
/ -. aH ~ Ihat was when the children
$3.50 nttIe and would go through them
somehow, in spite of the constant remonl
! 80 hTe OF their careful mother. since
10y nave grown up these chairs have
e,'-o IN solemn state, except for the GER
SHy or changing them about at times
~ilch goes on as regularly as in an we'll
ordered households
over her little kitchen stove. at i've
| Siock every morning, Tante Kruger may
| pe seen bending industriously She has
Ilssh half an hour earlier to light the fire
When her Dom shuffles down the stairs
, sIiS aroma OF coffee greets him. The first
lduy oLthe Transvaal republic brides her
I ser on her coffee. Although a modest
woman she still further brides herself nm
on being able to produce better results
/ wife in Pretoria. BE her brew ever so
good, however her husband allows him
sell only one cupful, with a biscuit As
there are no maids To be fed and no men
/ servants except the Kaffir boys who live
I on mealte meal. it will be seen that a
pound OF coffee can be made to last quite
} a long time
After Mrs. Kruger has listened TO a
! hlble reading by her husband she hurries
out TO wash the dishes. She has the lit
J We house to keep clean. the beds to make
the pots to FURNISH. the stockings and
socks to darn.
! And Dom Paul must be very hard on
th" heels of his stockings, for all who
nave ever met Tante Kruger carry mem
orles OF her with a basket of stockings on
/ her lap, spectacles on her nose and q
/ darning-needle in her hand Perhaps she
/ earns Tor the little grandchildren She
must, Tor not even a duke. trampng Iaily
/ eStat
could wear out so many socks as Mrs
/ Kruger darns.
II the wife of Dom Paul Is not darn
4 ing she is absorbed i'm a pastime equally
| important Every stitch in every dress
she mas ever worn and every stitch in the
/ dresses of her daughters for many MANY
years has this good woman sewed II is
true she does not have many dresses She
/ does not need them. even If the cooking
| The cleaning, and the darning left her
| time to make them.
/ Her love for Dom Paul shows i'm her
every word and deed. She worships him
/ The people say that when he dies she will
surely die too He is her lord and master
/ IN the truest sense of the words He i.
/ her idol, her life, her strength This man
/ IN whom strangers see LONELINESS per
sonlhed to an unusual and almost com
/ real degree. inspires in his wife only The
/ most supreme generation. 1t is because
! OF this that she brews the best coffee in
/ all Pretoria. He loves it, 1t is his an
/ prevail that has inspired her to make a
/ TN OF condensed milk go further than any
one else. She thinks him the very best
/ ana Wisest man that ever lived If ne
were otherwise there are those who say
she could not see it, To her what eVeI
MS faults, Dom Paul will ALWAYS be in.
tallible. Such a woman is Tante Kruger
ana such the home life of the President
OF the South African Republic"
WALTER BROWNE