Show FEW FEN SIGNS OF WAR PRETORIA SEEMS TriAN QUIL AND despite the tb ra 4 tl irl at or the hoar re I 1 x for too ralto ral 11 to ran abeles bk ai eles h at abe tb of arol at of tor bot or bratel rn nril 0 U the following interesting d tints ot life lite in the th of the saal aal republic Is 1 from front n cor car respondent ot of the new ork tork feral 1 and waa was written a few weeks as imagine the capital of oue of the smaller new cogland eatn states ith if its hulf halt half halt countrified and wholly sleepy air during a period when the legislature li Is not in session sei ilou and arid you have the transvaal Tran vaal seat of in war time times the south african republic la Is at war with a powerful foe toe a war upon which the cry exis lence of tot the nation depend depends a war involving very political and nodal social right which the doer hold holds dear yet pretoria pursues her way tranquilly and on the surface unconcerned clings tl inc go on everywhere as a osita tho tb town li Is destitute dettl tuto of martial atmos phere anil and it lt an echo of the fighting at on the border only a it jays jay ride by rail distant knocks knock at the heart hearts of the people their facea faces give no trace of anxiety within few nol sol diera diers are reen seen beyond the half halt dozen sentinels who pace the pavement pavements about the red tone stone Stai thaus and fie mail boly bodyguard guard which twice a duy day accompanies the president front hta his residence real dence to his hi official sanctum the mailed hand IA I 1 not in evidence all the shape are open although althou cli trade la to dull and the cabs which stand in ln the burgher burghers square in the he shadow of oom goat baul a unfinished matue do a fair business at aint d interval intervals tha rutty rusty tra tramcar mears drawn by pi palpably I 1 ariy dle cou raged horses creak along the wide red streets at reeta enveloped in a tiny cloud of reil red dunt dust thi this red lust Is I 1 a pir mealing rotating feature of pretoria belie italic it product of the clay soil upon rhin the town la Is built groups of neatly clad children the little girls in clear 1 white frock frocks and nuni bade hata hate the bor in shirtwaists and knickers grou frou hare have to rub bour our eye eyes to realize that you are not in the united stats trip joyously along about the streets end and ahola the preponderance of women oer men 14 I 1 nOti Able and some of the facea facts wear an ancion 4 look mourning Mourn lne dresses are frequent many a lad aa as he rompe romps about wearing a wisp of crape craps on his arm you may if it you pay attention to auch such observe that the dresses of the worren warren are no further behind metropolitan itin fashion than la Is generally the cae case I 1 in large interior town towns in the unite I 1 states while alle the men wear the es cis h ing inc of the period take a troll stroll late in the afternoon when the declining aun sun baa has spent lie its heat for it la is urn sum mer here about Sunny bide the pretty illan residents reel dence opec ecklon tion of pron pro ria rid low I ow neatly built coltus a een gen brally surrounded rounded aur by broad verandas act st back among the tree trees ee pirate rate I 1 fr fro in the wide smooth streets by close do c hipped hedge and well kept lawna lawns where cores scores of fountains play it Is to the hour of tea and the table tables will b I 1 act on the verandas or the I 1 bliwn about these tables are gathered groups of women many of them young sad nil beautiful bit bits of 1 or talking of the tile aliment ones olles for there la in nc sc ariely artely a cottage that ha not one or mon vacancies cati carided ottil by the move of the men to the front husband husbands fathers ions sons bruneis sweethearts Bwee theart all are missing from the I 1 I 1 homes of pretoria let their u would not have tild tam lu back aa as I ling ing as there Is a soldier on the bor hot deri tiers of the federated republics the national of this war inai ani awl the boer women are con 1 tent to watch and walland wal tand even suffer IT r it if need be if the day car comes c when pretoria Is in bound with A cordon nf of steel and shella ae a falling failing in her street streets these women will be found do ing ng their duty aa as they eee see it A sole ty has been formed among the leading women of the place resol re soled ted upon re fusing to leave the capital in the eert eiert eer t of a siege and to remain with their me men folk tennis courts and croquet tawni lawns art are apt to be tenanted at this hour for the war has by no means shed abed fo po chil activity in the capital anything that can afford relaxation from lie the general mental strain Is eagerly sought parties are frequent aid id there la Is an occasional lonal dance or recep lion driving to a pastime much indulged in and som i really handron n equipages turn out in the afternoon atter noon sometimes there Is cricket early 1 in the morning or late in the afternoon a few enthusiasts may be found daiv ing a ball over the golf links dearly everybody very body attends church rehul regularly arly and special prayer services are held for the armies in the held field once a fortnight oom gain paul preaches in the tha pretty church just across the from his residence he lie seldom men lions the war in bis his sermons at itt IT it la Is a quiet orderly prett town juit such a one ac as bc Jred in the states and gitil wit just such a gopala alon about the hotels one catches an impression pres slon of the presence of at war 11 here re are still till quartered maly of the bed pd cros cross physicians and nurses who re centi arrived ent tent out by hussi land and germany aa U the present stage of doer casualties there Is a superabundance per abundance of red cross workers an and d so they remain in pretoria whence they bey can easily be sent anywhere presence presen cot Js Is require 4 i s ir 11 4 |