ocr: "MRS. BOER AT HOME. atistaking place onthe Patm While the lushantisat the front Boer bives, mothers, sisters, and daughters, whose male relatives are fighting now, are passing through an unnecessarly anxous time. The war authorities at Pretoria apparently hold strictly selfish views upon the subject of casualty lists, deeming it impolitic to let those who are bereaved know that their men folk are dead. Owing to the influence the knowledge might have on others who are going to the front, the Boer War Office keeps its secrets inviolate, and does not issue news of losses on the field.
