MIXED MARRIAGES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 547, 17 October 1902, Page 3

MIXED MARRIAGES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

A contributor to tho Daily Nows writing on tho importance of inducing British womon to emigrate to South Africa says that the bittor war fooling will bo easily abolished by the power of personal affection. Tho general sentiment towards tho conquerors will not prevent a vouog man of British race, who makes himself pleasing, from capturing tho heart of a Boor maiden. Indeed, oven while the war continued tho Boer women showed somo of tho soldiers no individual animosity- if tho men woro hungry and the women of their enemies bad food they oive it to them, making the soldier pay for it if possible, but not condemning to go hungry away a man who could p cad that ho had no money. On the othor hand, wo have all heard tho charming sorv of tho train full of Boer women, with their children crying for food, being drawn into a siding near a British camp, and the kind-hearted Tommies sidling up to tho trucks and quietly handing in all they could sparo of their scanty rations. Thus individual kindliness can triumph over even tho evil spi.it of war. How much more cortain it is that when there is ia no immediate oxaccrbation of racial coling the prosperous young British armor will be an acceptable suitor to a Boer girl, and [will seek her for his bride, if young womon of his own race are not available ? Tbon, it is quite certain that tho children will grow up feeling them selves to be Boers; tho influence of tho mother is so strong that invariably it is her nationality which triumphs in a mixed rUarriago, other things being equal. The moral proposed to be drawn from this is that for the next thirty-five years Groat Britain should manage to emigrate three thousand women annually to South Africa. “ Colonisation is impossible m the true sense,” it is'.observed, “ without the aid of women.” This is profoundly jrue. But where are the inducements to the three thousand women per annum to tlfGoaaelves to South <\frioa ?