The morning call., 1890-06-08

are no tootsy-wootsies" among gypsy children.
The babe is nursed aud laid upon the bed OF
blankets and leaves within the tent. Ii seldom
als, aad there is always an herb tea for any par
ticuiar ailment II it Is spunky and cries. 1t
cries unlIl II tires OF an OCCUPATION which yields
q no more gratifying return than n thorough
spanking 1t Is not permitted In any particular
to occupy the entire attention OF the universe,
aud gradually grows into consciousness that
there are other affairs In the world besides its
own. When 1t begins to crawl, 1t has already
precautionary prociiylies. 1t IS allowed TO
crawl into the fire and burn its fingers IL it
wishes. Nobody has Mysteries over this, and 1t
seldom does any of these things the second
time. Indeed the entire practice of childtraining
among eypsies. II any may be said TO exist. Is
tDat The child shall itself learn by It's own expert
ence. Aud one OF its most rugged experiences
OF learning is that IL is about worth its life to dis
obey an elder, SUPERIOR or parent The vgOr
and directness with which gypsy Furnishes
disobedIent child is as startling as that child's
HUMBLE SUBMISSION
To the same Is ever dumb and resentless and
often, to a most ridiculous degree, matter for
apparent relish aud gratitude on the part OF the
suffering subject. Sngularly enough this ap-
many time have seen weaZened old gypsy
men and women OF eighty or ninety, deliberately
though feebly fog son or daughter OF fifty or
sixty who thanked the parent for such affec-
tloDate attention III The most respectful and
grateful terms.
The moment gypsy children have got beyond
Infancy, dogs. horses and the water have their
almost undivided attention. The grave, wise,
voiceless gypsy dogs wall0w them about bravey
but with marvellous caution ard tenderness of
fellowship. The first real view OF life is taken
from The back OF bOrse, and the hereditary in
stinct OF EOrse-l0ve and care is so wonderful and
acute in both boys and girls that l will defy you
to find upon earth a drom rajah chauvie th at is,
q genuine road-lord gypsy child OF ten who is
not more competent veterinarian, barring sur
gerry, thaniany non-gypsy veterinarian Gypsy
camps are universally beside living waters, al
ways beside running streams, If posi-
Die, and the young gypses are more
II the water than so many ducks.
A striking pecularity about these little waits is
their wonderful power OF sustaining arduous eX-
ertl0n, and yet their utter collapse under genu-
Inc ailment. a child OF to Will trudge beside
cart or wagon from twenty to thirty miles
day, and cover as many more miles In juvenile
freaks upon the way. But let one become really
Ill and it seldom survives. All gypsies immedl-
ateiy lose heart under sickness. More civilized
and less hardy Races possess an ethical courage
under bodily Illness which these wanderers
never know. The compensation comes In their
almost unexeeptional healIhiulness. But in the
UNIVERSAL Joy, elation and self-sUfficency of
cllldnOod, gypsy children are precisely like your
children. Mud pies. poplar whistles, marbles,
counting out rhymes, pumpkin-vine pipes, reed
blowguns, rag dolls, thumb-nail faces crooked
pins. men ana women playing visiting, snap Lhe
whip, aud every other magic device, pretense,
hallucination, real and glorious unrealty of your
y0ulhllde IS theirs. Knowing them as | do
gives deep and solemn emphasis TO the retlec-
ItOn that at least twice in the lifetime all human
lty ls quite the same--in those sunny hours be-
fore IL is set rolling along in fixed grooves Of
race, motive and environment, and at last In
those shadowy hours when IL steps alone with
God into The infinite mystery.
CODt,rfgIf 1905 EDGAR L. wAKEuAE