Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-07-28
Flies In the Gypsey's Web.

The presence In the woods about Pleas
ant Gap, Of "A band Of alleged gypsies,
seems to have stirred Bellefonte society 70
It's very foundations, and great Is the curl
Gus Interest that just now peryad.s tb.
average female breast Of this region. 1t
has long since passed into a proverb that
no woman, however strong minded, IL
proof against the wilcs of gypeey for.
tune teller and as the gang ut Pleasant
Gap possesses the regulation fortune teller,
1t goes without saying that the procession
Of lovely but curious women daily seeking
that scquestered spot Is intensely volumi.
nous. The old and the young, the married
and single, unite with one accord in max
ing the gypsey camp IA Mecca toward
which their hearts and feet eagerly turn
with wildly ycarning ambition 10 edge
little way into the mysteries of the great
beyond, Of which the key Is supposed 70
be held by the ancient but by no means
handsome female reader Of the future
Popular belief swallows easily the story
That the ancient female is an Egyptian
refugee about whose early life hangs
deep and dark mystery and over whose
head hovers poetical sort Of shadow
Speaking according to the manner Of men,
this tale is given by the beldame 10 the
gushing damsels who seek her a. the most
soothing kind Of "tafy +" but the gushing
dAmsels swallow the tafy greedily and
with much serious belief, 20 the infinite
amuscment no doubt Of the refugee. But
let any doubling or carping skeptic of a
man attempt 10 convince any Of the gufh-
ing damsels that the refugee IL fraud and
her fortune telling simply "stuH, and he
will find arising about his cars such a
storm of indignation that will make him
| think a cyclone has reached the neighbor-
hood. Lovely women look with sacred
reverence upon the person Of gypsey
| fortune teller, and treasure with holy
is.h the words that pretend TO tell her Of
the future. And the riie bigger the bum
combc the more will she believe II. The
particular reader Of the unknown by whom
they are al present wearing has fascinated
them to al alarming extent. She tells
the incest kinds Of fortunes for dollar a
fortune, but Tor two dollars she will turn
out regular crushcr. In short, q copper
b0i;omed, ere proof, gilt edged arrange
meni that dclcs competition. One tha, il
warranted 20 take the cako, or even the
rag from the bu,h. Her methods have moth
ing TO do with nasty, greasy caFd. Ths,
trick IL too common and utterly below the
lofty toul Of real live Egyptian refugee.
She gct her work in by the method
known a. pa,mis;ry, assisted materially
by bit Of stone, which she swcars /.
meteor that came siTAigh, from the starry
.kie. into her waiting hands. or course
she would Mt lie about one little stone, and
the logic 81 1t therefore if, that she really
did take the mineral on the Ay. ThIs
stone, she ssys, gives her the bulge on
other fortune t"llcrs and knocks them. 90
t1 speak, higher than Gilderoy's kite.
With that emblem of faith she can tell
more and better f1rtaucs than any Of the
rest Of them would dare 20 tell. With IL
shc can work In revelation about "a
ligh; haired and blue eyed man, :" TO say
nothing of lots Of money and half
dozen children that fairly lifts the soul
Of the average maiden into realms Of
ccs;stic delight and paints the horizon
with roseaie hncs Of what you call EN-
The old girl opened the campaign with
the standard promise Of husband and six
children to each Of all the young women
who pAironized her, but she has lAtterly
cut down the allowance TO husband and
four children. Indeed, on one occasion,
she was mean enough TO make the limit
one solitary child, which amazing condi-
tion of things has caused many mAidens
with aspirations te fear that the refugee Is
about 30 get up corner in children
Meanwhile the turnpike gates are busy
with the rush Of travel 20 Pleasant Gap, |
and the ohlldlike refugee buster raking in
the dollars from the fair hand Of innocent
but credulous femininiiy. Wherefore mat |
iers are rosy in the Gypsey camp and pros. |
peciive wealth dawns upon the dwellers |
therein so that their souls rejoice with an |
exceeding great JOY.