Show PROUD OF HIS NEW CLOTHES Rhoder Rhod eilar lar native returning from mines mine was kvas scandalized by un clad relatives and fi lends A tonn ton in rhodesia nho desla Is not generally a town declares mrs sl al L woods wooda in pastels under the southern cross crosb A few scattered shops it a broad road deep in red lust down which a sudden miscellaneous herd ot of blacks occasionally pours constitute a town 0 of these nathies nat lies mrs woods gives the following description they are collected from rom all parts 0 of rhodesia Rho desla from portuguese territory even from Nya saland dressed in anything and everything they come pell mell grinning and cl chattering iatter tome some like young colts bounding into the air as they go these happy fellows are probably rejoicing because they are being sent bent to some mine where certain ot of their friends and relations are already working this is the native as he appears entering on his term of service at tho the mines I 1 once saw a group of 0 block black men ehg had completed their term of service and were on their wily way home they were serious fled conscious of clean and complete costumes consisting of shirt and trousers and a hard straw hat each had his neat bundle and his gaily painted wooden box we vo were once appreciative witnesses of the homecoming home coming of such a miner at a wayside station A party 0 of relatives and friends had come from the kraal domeet to meet the returning one all innocent in their nakedness and rags the plutocrat surveyed them with a eye coldly he waved their salutations and endearments obviously too shocked and pained to appreciate them then he withdrew from the platform to the foot of a neighboring tree and beckoned ills his bewildered friends to ap pro ell in a few minutes before the eyes of the passengers in the train he had clothed his whole party with decency and surely in their eyes with splendor then and only then did he condescend to return their greetings and exceedingly joyful all marched off together in the direction of their kraal |