The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-29

ISOLATION with us; they cannot bear any
manner of intermingling or mixing up. All
people. not Gipsies are, to their notion.
made for them to forage from, to subsist
upon. Therefore, and because this is true
OF the whole race, and not exceptionally
true OF part of it, or of individuals, their
ways among us are, and forever will be,
the exact opposite of what they are among
themselves. Pretense, atfectation, deceit
then, are become their nature. Nor
must these qualities be reckoned against
them as parts of their real selves. Foxes
may be quite socinble and jolly and gener-
GUS at home But the Gypsy nature is the
fox nature, limitless in degree, in all that
side of him. i'll all things. which must be
presented to all other mankind. That is
the very essence of Gipsyism. Rapidly as
they are increasing among u.s. because all
conditions for the same are with US in
tinitely more favorable than the world ever
gave them elsewhere. large as is the wealthy
they are piling up i'll farm and city proper
ty, they do not lose an iota of that impen-
etrable armoring of eternal alertness of
pretended non-alertness, unintelligent SIM
plicity and unassailable repellance, that
have protected them through the centuries
with wonderful isolation from every posi-
bic race encroachment. To-day, and right
here among us, they pursue concerning the
most absurdly trivial happenings. precise
ly the same suspicious exclusiveness, wary
and all unnecessary precaution, and
| what would appear to us as out
rageously silly tinesse. that they did
when battling for their lives against con-
| tinental edicts of determination in tho fif-
teenth and sixteenth centuries. In this re-
gard their precaution and overcRution are
| often laughably ridiculous. Countless little
incidents of this sort have happened in my
own wanderings among them, all too trivial
| to relate, yet all enabling sure Judgment
of noteworthy characteristic. One in
CT 1rc$ pot Of oil he
pardoned for repeating.
l had been generously entertained by
| several families of Gypsy friends in the
spring of 1873, near Chicago. in the little
village of Lyons. on the Desplaines river, q
seepy old and f1aensn Place which n tn
turn their goodness proposed a trip to the
theater. They consented only after grea
| urging, and, looking forward to rare trea'
i'll the enjoyment of their enjoyment ant
wonderment,, on returning to the city
bought and mailed them twent,
formance at the Haverly theater
then occupying the site of the presen
First national bank. Full of delightful ex
| pectancy arrived at the theatre, only t.
find the seats had purchased for my Clips,
friends entirely filled with ordinary cit,
folk. After sitting out part of the play,
left the place disappointed and disguised
not, however, without catching glimpse o
one of the Gipsies lurking near the en-
| trance, who. as soon as he was seemingl,
sure of having seen me in my discontinue
| skulked away in the darkness.
/ Business called me away from the city TO
| few days. but this desertion by my Clips
proteges worried me. Hoping for som
| clue to their action, when l returned ! ap
| piled to the box Office, where learned, an,
with some asperity from the management
that my Gipsies, who had kept the audieno
| in an uproar the entire evening of their Wis
it. on receiving the tickets by mail at LYON
had Immediately sent one of their humble
to the city and secured an exchange of seat
from Wednesday evenings performance t
that for Friday evening | could thus Sc
that their natural and Interchangeable rae
suspicion and caution of one not of thei
people, though tried friend, prompted tn
cunning ruse to first defeat my entire plar
then set watch upon me to obssrv
| whether my action was consistent wit
genuinely disappointed friendly interes,
and then to deceive me as to the true mo
tive of such action. The latter was attend
ed to on their part in the following epistlt
taken from my Gypsy relics. which is no,
before me as make its exact copy:
LYONS, il 9Th May, 1873.
IL tax the tim to adres you thea
, fu Inns and Thanks for the Ticits weicoml
resefd we cudn cum wensdy For the oil
Folks didn git Hoam. and the riyerSid
rodes was Bad we Cum fridy and WAS Loke
al Oayer for you And had Hi old Tim tbs
i Acten was wunful where wasyou
hopin this Fids you in Go
i | belt Cloas and best Regars from AL
your Fren
George w. Carpenter.
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