Show Crazo for Khaki About the first thing that impresses a visitor In South Africa at present said a transport captain who has re cently returned l from a trip to the Cape is the prevalence of khaki color It Is used on everything imaginable and the effect Is most peculiar Buttons gun barrels cannon canteens belt buckles haversacks tin cups and every Particle of camp equipment Is painted a dull muddy yellow to match the uni forms It Is almost the exact hue of the ground and the consequence is that objects become indistinguishable A L few hundred yards away A large encamp ment disguised Jn that manner Is about the strangest spectacle I know of One loses all the sharp little details that bring out any scene of activity and the eye keeps groping painfully for something to Lake hold ol The only things about a British trooper nowadays that arent solid kiln ki are his hands and his face and he generally takes pains to keep them BO dirty that they really chime Jn yery well with the rest Some of the cavalry oven went so far as to paint their horses but I understand that the ex periment wasnt exactly satisfactory and has since been abandoned The stuff stopped up all the pores and made the animals sick and with some of them it took off the hair and produced ugly sores They make the paint in1 immense J quantities out of a sort of powder and every camp has a big pot of it for touching up any bright spots that may be noticed from time to time New Orleans TimesDemocrat |