The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1907-02-16

about our manner Of life and our
methods OF doing business. But many
times | have been tempted to write
something about our people that
other people may know them better,
| for nothing accurate has been written
| that | can find"
Valley Stanley is known from Bos-
| ton to Worcester and throughout all
the outlying country. He Is the her
! edltary chief of his tribe, for, like
kingship, leadership among the gyp-
! sizes Is usually hereditary. His people
camp at Somerville during the sum-
mer months, though they move about
to some extent as his business as
! horse trader demands. At present he
| Is living in Everett, while the people
of his tribe are distributed through
out Everett and Lynn for the winter,
Gypsy Held in Respect.
Il would take Valley Stanley's word
where ! would not take another mans
bond" said an Everett horses dealer
of the chief of the Stanley tribe.
why, knew his father, Bill Stanley,
chief Of the tribe before him. There
was never a straishter man IN the
horse.dealing business than Bill Stan
! ley"
That is the idea formed of two gypsy
| chiefs by a man intimately associated
with them in business that offers
great opportunities for sharp work.
! Perhaps you yourself have been
frightened when child by somebody
telling you to watch out or the gyp-
sizes viii get you said the chiefs
son That is because people have
the idea that gypsies so In for kid
mapping children. They have usually
carried this idea in their minds since
| they themselves were children, when
| they received 1t from their parents in
precisely the same way. That is alb
solutely a wrong idea OF us. Why
should we kldnap? We have children
enough of our own, quite as many as
we can take care Of.
Then they accuse us of being al.
| dictcd to stealing. That Is n lie, We
| know the value of a good reputation
! in our business, and If we had no
! higher standard of honor than that it
would be sufficient to keep us honest.
| | think that If YOU will inquire among
/ the people with whom we have done
I business you will find we bear an ex-
/ Celent name for honesty This mis-
/ conception of thieyish tendencies is
/ inherited and it has been fostercd by
/ the dcprcdations of many wanderers
who are not gypses at all, but have
taken to a uomadic existence for
sheer love of idleness and freedom
from responsibility. know of French
men of lrishmen and of Germans who
travel about the country posing as
gypsicS when they have not a drop
of gypsy blood in their veins and none
of the gypsy code OF living.
some OF us are fairly we'll educat-
ed Much Of that education has been
obtained by contact with the world.
hut tho world is good university aud
one doesn't forget the lessons one
learns there. When q gypsy leaves
the life of his forefathers and applies
himself to the usual pursuits OF civ.
ii2ation, no generally succeeds, which
proves that the gypsy is a man of in,
tcligcuce have q cousin who is
mayor ri large town and another
who is head OF considerable shoe
mandatory.
Personal Characteristics.
Look at me DO | look like an
Egyptian" Am | dark. or swarthv. OF
fierce OF aspect
Tom stanley is \ wellsot.up man
above the average height. no darker
than most dark men Of Caucasian
blood He speaks English well. and
AWAY from the environments OF his
summer camp has rs little Of the air
5 n the gypsy-the gypsy Of fiction
chat Is as a business man.
Yet people picture me and my
people III their imaginatious as half
, savage wanderers. akin to the Egyp
/ tjaus or the orientals Look at this
little girl OF mine Does She look Hk,
/, An Indian child
lie thrust forward 4 bashful tot o
about seven years, haNeUhairc,
child with big blue eyes she, tnl
was as far removed from the popua
idea 81 the gypsy IS Peary is nov
+ from the north pole
4 am 81 American blood, but 0
5 English descent My people lived Il
Worcester a few generations aso. an