, 1890-06-12

tne camp-sido and tho crcssets
or tcnt-fircs fare. in tho songs
they have taught mo and the songs
l nave taught thcm; or, tiring Of
thcso, when tho ''stortesh must be
told, and rack my brain for tales
of sen and land that will make their
dark Dyes glisten and open, until
tho night and sleep shut them
close from tho best that "Gorgio
char' can do. But that term Of on
dcarmcnt follows ont into the other
world OF labor, struggle, endeavor;
II purs,les into the huunts of men
where life ragcs and activities roar;
u calls from striving and winning,
from race and place, as the sweetest
or hoino-sounds TO me. IL comes
ncfoss tho hills and meadow when
tho pom Is tired and the brain
weary. "tiorgio chaIv'--"Gorgio
chair All, IL In ns the sound Of
summer melodies, of singing birds,
OF fnliing waters, to him who all but
falnts IN the whitening city ways.
~ calls To me oven In dreams.
There IL surely the glpsy taint in my
blood, or | am become gipsy alto
gether; and would not resist II Il I
could. 30, like some Kris Kringle OF
summer time, away 1 go, II all else
fail, while
All my heart seeks Natures ways
Al my sonl goes gipsying
Through tho radiant tents OF springi--
and scores OF little brown gipsy boys
race for the mcetine, and "Giorgio
chalp'--''Gorglo chal!'' rings from a
scoro Of bird-iike throats, until the
thrill OF II all dims my eyes in my
rIlf "a ~ N ~ w,l.l.l. thea.
little oncs lead me To the ever-wcl-
coming gipsy camp.
When one has earnestly studied
gipsy children he has gained II deep
knowledge OF tho home ways and
practices of tho entire gipsy race.
Beginning the subject behind the
little ones, the extraordinary phys
ical Temperance and virtue of the
gipsy must be considered. a cer-
tain kind Of literature Is null of ro-
mantle incidents based upon the ir-
regularities Of gipsy female charac-
ter. One and all they are con-
scienceIess libcls upon the p,irest
race that exists. While gipsies are
without law, as We know 1t. no pco-
pie live who more vigorously follow,
In fact and TO tho ultimate of spirit,
the highest and purcst code of phys
ical and moral observance. They
universally revere the marriage rola-
ton. say universally, and use
that word unquallfiodly. There Is
not an exception. The religious
faculty a. we develop IL, and distort
II, being wholly lacking Ia these no
inads, another seems to have taken
Its place. That Il vlrtue-worship.
All this begins back Of the suck
ling babe and Its mothers breast.
1t is bred and inbred IN prenatal
assimilated loyalty. The home
government being universally abso-
lute and unquestloning, and sur
veillance being ceascless and almost
merciless. Gipsy children grow un-
consciously, hereditarily, Into vir-
tuous lives and loves. Believe II or
not, gipsy mon and youths regard
virtue OF IN noble perfection and
heritage In men Us In sweetheart or
wife, and some idea of the awful
sacredness of that requirement In
woman may be gained from
the fnct that infidcilty ON her
part IL punishcd by the most
uncomfortable fate that can by any
possibility come to her in this life
utter and endless oxpatriation.
More than once the lives OF such
have been sacrificed with the calm
and unvarying approval of parents
and friends; while such n thing as
disloyalty of wife to husband, or
husband to wife, after marriage, has
yet to be truly recorded of gypsy on
the European or American conti-
nents.
Because the gipsy father and
mother are themselves types Of good
health and spirits, healthy aud
spirited children are born TO them.
because every glpsy woman on
earth is loyal to her mate, many
children are born to them. Because
the instinct OF fatherhood, mother
hood and partncrhood is inviolable
with husband aud wife, glpsies love
this to be so; aud the care Of, and az
fection for, children are extraordi-
nary indeed.
From the moment the child Is
born until Il Is upon its own legs for
good, IL Is constantly rubbed,
stretched md kneaded. that every
muscle may have proper ac-
rion and development The same
wise practice, have found by long
observation, exists among the sem
sibIe Pennsylvania Dutch. Ii be-
gan with the ancestors of the latter
behind the Swiss mountains centur-
les ago; and 1t would be All interest
ing research for the student of men
to ascertain II this precisely identl-
cal glpsy and Pennsylvania Dutch
custom had not, at some remote
time, q common Oriental origin be-
mind the Himalayas. Gipsy women
attend each other In childbirth;
and that one who should venture to
suggest the presence of a physician
would be mercilessly ridiculed out
of Romany life and society. There
are no marvelolis laycttes, miracles
in fiImy laces and stuffs awaiting
the arrival OF the gipsy. a clean,
warm rag of any handy texture is
quite sufficient. Indeed, cleanli-
ness. warmth and plenty of
sleep in the pure open air
are all the gipsy mother wish;
hut She will have these mt any sac
ritice. There are no cradles, cribs,
lace parachutes, nurse-giris with
frills aud fellows. Gipsy mothers
believe cudles are what Citizen
Train regards fat TO be--death.
,uThey tectcr and wobble the chau-
vies, brains,v they say; and "evcry-
body az II rocked, zig-zags about
what they allus does" Consider
a,ia xovatcrinr occurp over the gipsy