Show PROUD OF HIS NEW CLOTHES rhodesian Rhode natle native returning from mines was wae scandalized by un clad relatives and friends Fr lenda A town in rhodesia Rho desla la is not generally a town declares mrs birs M L woods in Ll pastels astels under the southern crosb A few scattered shops chops a broad road deep lit in red dust dowid down which a sudden miscellaneous herd of blicks occasionally pours constitute a to town of these natives mrs woods gives given the following description they are collected from all parts of rhodesia from portuguese territory even from Nya aaland saland dressed in arty anything thing and everything they come pell mell grinning and chattering some like young colts bounding into th the air as they gor go these happy fellows are probably bably rejoicing because they are being sent to some mine where certain of their friends and relations are already working this is the native as he aPPe appears argi entering on ht his term terin of service at the mines I 1 once saw a group of block black men who had completed their term of service and were on their way home they were serious dignified conscious conti cons cloua clous of clean and complete costumes consisting ot of shirt and trousers and a hard straw hat bat each had bad his neat bundle and bix lil gally gaily painted wooden box we wore were once appreciative witnesses wItt less of the homecoming home coming of such a minor miner at a wayside station A party of relatives and friends had come from the kraal to meet the returning one all innocent in their nakedness and rags raga the plutocrat surveyed them with a scandalized eyo coldly he waved their salutations and endear obviously too shocked and pained to appreciate them then he be withdrew from the platform to the toot of a neighboring treo tree and back beckoned his bewildered friends to a approach in a few minutes before the eyes of the passengers in the train lie be had bad clothed his whole party with decency and surely aurely in their eyes with then and only then did he condescend to return their and exceedingly joyful joitel all 0 matched L C off together in tho the direction of their kraal r P |