A Breath from the Veldt 



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in what I saw, but judging from those who caught my eye, I should say that 

 ladies are few and far between, whilst gorgeously -dressed damsels of the 

 barmaid type are everywhere en evidence. Beautiful women, too, some of them 

 — illustrating, perhaps, the observation of the immortal Bacon that women of 



great beauty are seldom of great virtue. Yes, they are go-ahead people in 

 Johannesburg, and know how to draw the dollars as well as any nation on 

 earth. There, as elsewhere, men will give to beauty what they would deny to 

 ugliness ; and, wise in their generation, the Salvation Army sent into the midst 

 of this money-grubbing community a girl whose personal charms not even 



