Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-11-22


more like the average gypsy family of Eng
land thar is the A-mericanized English,
Scottish or Irish immigrant like the criug
ing, covering and often squalid PERSONAL
" he left ON the Liverpool, Greeuock or
Queenstown docks behind him.
Mr.. Smith has no patience with seuti
mentalism over English gipsies. lie il
willing to admit that my tawny friends O.
the American roads and waysides. through
their infinitely more favorable conditions.
enjoy true gypsy prosperity and lead tine
Romany's genuine idyllic life. He simply
sees the appalling degradation of the Gypsy
and van jewellers about him. II is the
helpless, hopeless children of these he
would save. He believes that il il a social
crime that such menace TO society should
exist, and that society. represented by law.
should itself right that wrong. And il
may be depended on that, as in the case
Of the ~brickyard and canal boat children.
bis clarion clamor will continue until
Britain has rid herself Of the plague spot.
All his life he has studied their wander
ings and ways, and since 1857 be has been
almost constantly among them. like his
rugged, vigorous description Of his rough
"a Will AAN~N hANANNNNNH anu NENA
sure that "A few Of them, in his own Ian
guage. will be interesting TO American
readers:
81 have visited many fairs. fes,t.. races
forests. lanes and wig,yams in different
parts of England and scotland. and have
eaten and chatted with tine tent and van
jewellers. with the same -urruwful results.
confronting me. lu many cases where
parent, attend fairs. feu~r~ and races with
c1roauut stalls and other Hr~.fi4t1ry .Im
bling amu~.mrut~. tr, children an. semi
early in the morning % bic. uD Eyir. .u.
all sort. uf questionable WAYS and mn ID.
II OBJ u O'Clock l- r.-Ht some of rr. Chill
lrru of both SEXES. tu-.rtrr with rl...
mothers. ARE often kept hard 4r v.r.
bruv.iu-. BANGING and Shouting with co..
cUguut- and balls in hand. while ia MANY
instances their fathers .r. Er.rk-r-.a. t...
pubIi. houses. and 4- "a reward f.r r.ar
hard DAYS -1..u- and rr.a-frg -grg...
and weekday. the Door children ar. -.r-
-ur9srI--- and unwa-HeI rl their r.f
This is USUALLY. ON some old rtg.- rr..-
street stall. DO ualI.ra.u. snow. fr.-r- amid
and .1 tra went. her with the -..l--
ing moon and r|v.rsIirr --I-- r.a..r.
through tue torn ap-rture- of their street
curtains and gutter beds.
q nave N''H NN'-. NHf.Ir omen anna |....
dreu drunk. .all Ul % heap like so many
dogs. while there were Others. engaged in
the yagah1uI'- calling. ashamed of their
position. who hung down their heads and
hands aud went with the tide and u...mr..
crowd down 20 ruin. I'm many Instances ]
come upon parents with large f4u...r-
who hlyeraSeut the wrOu-t turning THROUGH
their dislike Of worh. or the hardness uF
life. and are now tramu.u- the cllu-
Try lanes. towns and villages with carts.
vans and donkey barrUw-. hawking. beg
ging. lying, and / am afraid often stealing
some time = ] visited with friend
Canning Town. and found scores Of fsm..
lies ~ gip-ie- and other vagaI1ud travel
er- living in "a state that would shock the
most filthy and degraded heather. More
than thirty children Of school age c.u--
tered around as, not one Of whom could
tell a letter. Ia two small four roomeI
cottages, into which the gipsies and trav-
elers had crept for n few months in the
winter, there dwelt, or plugged. seventeen
families of men, women and children.
Others were squatting about i'm filthy wig
vans, among the slush, filth, rags aud
straw.
Among these folk. on the outskirts o.
London, in one wigwam | have seen "a Door
DYING: in another a man who had
taken % gipsying was gasping for breath.
IN another tent a woman wa at DEATH.
door and at another abode Of death. into
which / had TO creep on all fours' there
sat at the entrance. upon a brick in rE.
mud, a poor lost. present day giD-y girl of
seven years Of age. but no heavier than ,
child Of one year. It, legs were no thicker
than drumstIcks. Il could neither stand
sing. speak, cry nor hear.
al a crow pie feast near Rugby saw
five vans fifteen children. two of whom
could only read and write "A little DurI.-
he deem snow Of rb- winter NJ r,--. ,..,
i1 80 an W-.tH,- -.. b..
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women and children F~IurHaI TYlarH.r