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Show Made Lonely Journey A woman farmer In a lonely part of South Africa, Mrs. Ida Francis, has Just shown that tn luck and endurance endur-ance I'.rltlsh women settlers are not behind the nan. About two months sgo a cyclone devastated her farm, which lies beyond be-yond the western fringe of the desolate Ktiiiihtul desert; nnd then came floods which destroyed the food and shelter for her cattle. The only way to save her anlmnls was to drive them 400 miles across the desert to her son's farm, and this she did, unaided. She found that many of the water holes In the desert had dried up, and sometimes she had to ward off attacks by lions wlt& her rifle; but she kept steadily on, and la the end brought nearly all bt chajgea through safely. Famll Bttts |