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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 41, 20 February 1900, Page 4

"MB&-BOBR" AT HOME.] place ON THE g the husband is AT THE .FRONT. Boer shnes, toothers, Bisters, and daughters, whose male relatives are fighting now, are passing though an unnecessarily anxious time. The war authorities at Pretoria apparently hold strictly selfish views upon the subject of casualty lists, deeming it impolitic to let, those who are bereaved know that their men folk are dead. "Owing to the Influence the knowledge might have on others who are going to the bant, ths JBo»r war Office keeps its secrets inviolate, and does not issue news of fosses on the field. The cider generation of Boer women will probably be hearing the suspense in tight-lipped, listless silence, but the girls who have received the benefits of education will understand how cruel their position is, and fret in impotent wrath beneath the injustice inflicted What kind of lives are these women leading now ? In all likelihood pretty much: what they led in ordinary times. Thai; farms are squat, two or threeroomed buildings, dumped down on the vpldt far away from neighbours, in the Centre of the acreage of land farmed by the proprietor. They are wretqhedly uncomfortable habitations; for Boer women are not house-proud. They see no necessity for keeping their domiciles clean, and do not even make the tods regularly. The consequences are n&turally disatrous, and render a It! is hardly perhaps entirely the fault-of the Boer " vrouw" that she is so apathetic and lazy. Her chief charm in thte eyes of her lord and master is her ponderosity. From her earliest youtp a Boer girl, who is often quiet a pretty lass, hopes to attain an enormous obesity, for by doing so she is sure to win favour in the eyes of the other sex. If slw should weigh fourteen stone she is a Venus—a "mooie vrouw," which, being interpreted, means a handsome woman. Itfis to be opined that the tastes of the Jloer male differ completely from thatrof the Boer woman. The Boer is not § bad looking fel'ow as a rule; wellfknit, nicely set up, and of manly appliance. The Boer belle, like the Boeif beau, is an ignorant individual for the most part; but there are exceptions. Formerly no Boer woman received more than an apology for education, and a very lame one jat that. Now, however, some of the youngsters are sent to the conTent schools, and are modelled into veqft much improved editions of the original Boers. Something of the gentle dignity of the listers becomes engrafted in the rough nature of their pupils, who benefit so immensely by their convent life i THEY BETORN HOME quite civilised young ladies instead of the < badly •mannered girls they were when they went to schodl. But the Boer woman is, mentally, a shortsighted creature; otherwise she would understand how it is that her sex die 3 ■o much sooner than the opposite sex. Hei; immense weight and her lethargy conspire to curtail the span of life. The Boer youth weds extremely young. His education is over and he is considered a man of business . when he is sixteen. His bride does not come to him portionless, but usually with a dowjty consisting of cows, goats, and sheep, a span of oxen, and a quiet riding horse. To each child that is born a nel-to-do Boer likes to assign certain farm stock as a " nest-egg," for a future dowiy or as a start in life. The women and the boys who have not gone to fight will now be tending the farms, drinking coffee incessantly, and perhaps speculating vaguely upon the issues of the campaign. They are sanguine as to the result of the conflict, even to the annexation of England itself. —Daily Mail, BY THIS RETICIXCE. JSoerj farm by nomeans a desirable Do Dieter tninw.

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