Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — A Cosmopolitan Family. [ARTICLE]

A Cosmopolitan Family.

There is probably not a civilized roof in South Africa which covers people of only one nationality; as a rule, they are of three or four. We take a typical Cape household before us at the moment; the father is English, tho mother half Dutch and half French-Huguenot, with a French name, and tho children sharing three nationalities; the governess is a Scotch woman, the cook a Zulu, the housemaid half Hottentot and half Dutch, the kltchon girl half Dutch and half Slav, the stable boy a Kaffir, and tho little girl who waits at table a Basuto. This household is a type of thousands of others to be found everywhere throughout Africa.