Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-07

subject behind the little ones, the extra
ordinary physical temperance and virtue
of the Gipsy must be considered. A
certain kind of literature is full of ro-
mantle incidents based upon the irregu-
larities of Gypsy female character. One
and all they are constituencies llbels
upon the
PUREsT RACE THAT EXISTS.
While Gipsies are without law, as we
know It, no people live who more rigor-
ously follow, in fact and to the ultimate
of spirit, the highest and purest code of
physical and moral Observance. They
universally revere the marriage rela-
ton. 1 say universally, and use that
word uuqualifledly. There is not an ex-
ception. The religious ia Guilty as we
develop it, and distort it, being wholly
lacking in these nomads, another seems
to have taken its place. That is virtue
worship.
All this begins back of the sucking
babe at its mothers breast. 1t is bred
and inbred IN prenatal assimilated
loyalty. The home government being
universally absolute and unquestioning,
and surveillance being oesseless and al
most merciless, Gypsy children grow I'M
consciously, hereditarily, into vlrtuous
lives and loves. Believe il or not, Gypsy
men and youths regard virtue of as noble
perfection and heritage in men
as in sweetheart or wife;
and some idea of the awful
sacredness of that requirement in wo-
man may be gained from the fact that
inildelitv on her part is punished by the
most uncomfortable fate that can by any
possibility come to her in this life-utter.
and endless repatriation. More than
once the lives of such have been sacri-
feed with the calm and unvarying ap-
prevail of parents and friends; while such
a thing as dislOyalty of wife to husband,
or husband to wife, after marriage, has
yet to be recorded of Gypsy on the Euro
pean or American continents.
Because the Gypsy father and mother
are themselves types of good health and
spirits, healthy and spirited children are
born to them. Because every Gypsy
woman on earth is loyal to her mate,
many children are born to them. Be-
cause the instinct of fatherhood, mother
hood and parenthood is inviolable with
husband and wife, Gipsles love this to be
SO; and the care of, and affection for,
children are extraordinary indeed.
From the moment the child is born
until it is upon its own legs for good, it
is constantly rubbed, stretched and
kneaded, that every muscle may have
proper action and development. The
same wise practice, l have found by long
observation, exists among the sensible
Pennsylvania Dutch. It began with the
ancestors of the latter behind the Swiss
mountains centuries ago, and it would
be an interesting research for the student
of men TO ascertain if this precisely idsn-
tical Gypsy and Pennsylvania Dutch Gus
tom had not, at some remote time,
common oriental origin behind the Him
alayas. Gypsy women attend each other
in child birth; and that one who should
venture to suggest the presence of ply
stefan would be
MERCuEssLY RIDICULED
out of Romany life and society. There
are no marvellous layettes, miracles in
flmy laces and stuffs awaiting the ar
rival of the Gypsy. clean, warm rag
Of any handy texture is quite sufficient.
indeed cleanliness, warmth and plenty
of sleep in the pure open Air,
are all the Gypsy mother wish; but
she will have these at any sac
rifice. There are no cradles. cribs, lace
parachutes, nurse-girls with frills and
fellows. Gypsy mothers believe cradles
are what Citizen Train regards fat 70 be
death. .'They teeter and wobble the
chanvies' brains" they say; and
Everybody as Is rocked zig-zags about
what they aims does. Considerable
registering occurs over the Gypsy baby by
the time it can hold up its head. Gipsies
of English and Scotch descent with us