The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-10-22
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The day Of the South African
girl has hardly arrived yet, but
when it comes let the Americans
see to their laurels, for they will
have dangerous competitors in the
field.
The Dutch women of the Trans
vaal are tall and splendidly de-
veloped, and there are two distinct
types, the purely Dutch with gold
en- brown hair, gray or hazel eyes
and creamy skin, and the brunette
OF French descent with dark eyes
and hair and rich dark coloring.
Both types are on a larger scale
than their European antecedents.
The SIM of South Africa is a great
v1taliZer, and the children of that
land OF vast spaces have more room
to grow and develop in. and they
lead from their infancy such an out
of doors life that they are bound to
be an Improvement physically over
their slstets of the northern heni-
sphere.
Dutch women of South Africa
always accompanied their hus-
bands in their large hooded, slow
moving wagons. Their nomadic
existence tended to Carelessness of
habits and of dress, but 1t devel-
Oped in them an infinite capacity
for persevering effort, strength of
character, stubbornness, as well
as great vitality, all Of which ex-
cellent qualities go to the making
of a strong nation.
The present generation can be
divided into two distinct classes,
the inhabitants of the weld and
those of the towns and villages, and
while the fundamental Characteris-
tics are the Same-grit, tenacity.
levelheadedness Independence
still, there is a wide difference be-
tween the Boer woman of the coun-
try and the educated Dutch woman
Of the towns.
The former, on reaching the age
of thirty, are large, fat and heavy.
They marry very young and have
patriatchal families, and over hus-
band and children they WELD a
great sway, an influence very much
greater than that of the English
woman.
To a stranger the Boer woman
aprcals stupid and silent; she shuts
her mouth Ge;crminedly and sits
stolidly through his visit; but in
reality she is taking a detailed
memorandum of his appearance,
ways and manners, and nothing
escapes her notice. If she is per-
suaded of his friendliness and good
intentions she may relax a little,
but the Dutch never by any nance
tell you anything more than they
wish you to know.
The Boer women have always
been accustomed to a good supply
of kafhr servants on their farms
and they are not quite the energetic
housewives one imagines, but they
generally prevail on their servants
to get the work done to their salts
faction and there is one branch of
housewifery in which they excel
the making of "konfyt' or pre-
serves. whether jam making of the
ordinary kind or more elaborate
method of preserving the delicious
fruit of the land.
Wide as the poles asunder are
the educated Dutch women of the
towns or indeed those of the coun-
try who have been sent to Cape
Colony or to Europe to school.
AS adaptable as the Americans,
with decided mental ability, they
are full of common sense, of good
tempered gayety and an inherent
sense of savoir vivre.
A girl who has been to good
school in South Africa and after
ward in Europe has something
most fascinating and charming
about her Handsome, vivacious,
capable, with a clear idea of what
she wants and how to get il, She
carves pleasant and useful way
for herself through lite.
Her out of doors life has made
her strong and healthy and she
sees the advantage of a certain