The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-30

! excellent cook and seems really 70 IKE ~
IL is not mitch trouble. OF course, ior We
live so simply. He has the smaller cart.
| / and a Young woman friend have the larger
: one. We have no servants with u.s. Y
| would spoil half the fun. But we 40 every
! thing together. 60 camping IN the neloa
every night about sunset. get up ano ~
on the road again Jogging along tne oeauS,,
full lanes by sunrise again. There realiy
couldn't be anything more enjoyaoie thAn
being a Romany queen
SO much for the gypsying III, wagons
and with the Accompanies details OF tne
picturesque wanderers life. $50
1t ia confined as yet to England almost
Wholly. although was il not h. j.. Steven
son who ven gypsying in France ever 80
many years ago with a patient donkey an1
it's pack. sleeping under the stars ana amlo
the pines OF the C~evennes? But when you
come 10 gypsying in motor cars nat 10
another matter.
The motor cars most in favor are those
equipped for the accommodation OF peopie
all of the tw~enty-four hours. There IL IN
particular the car OF a we'll known Amerl-
can diplomat, who has caught the lever
for the opel air and for the wanoerer .
life from his English friends.
He has a car containing six beds. turned
down in the daytime they occupy nttle
room and help to support the table, Which
can easily be thrown up In the, centre OF
the car. which in turn is literally ~ .ercd
INI III ohN
concocted owe electric cookers by the
proprietor and his chauffeur, who both
take pride in a reputation for being e1-
cellent cooks.
The diplomat and his parties do not
always depend Upon the car for food ana
shelter, but in little tours around Parls
they find nothing 30 delightful as 10 spend
the night in the car atter dinner at one OF
the inns, and after breakfast the next morn;
ing on a roadside in the heart Of a WOOD
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the Loire country or back 70 Paris or on TO
the Vosges in the east Of France.
|. With these more palatial automobiles,
containing in many cases two compart-
ments 80 that women can be entertained,
Europe will be overrun, according to many
predictions, this summer. Tours in which
no roof will be trusted but The roof OF the
whizzing car will be made by many Amerl-
cans who would never think OF going e-Ryp-
sylng in their own country. Perhaps they
NAV bring the fever back with them.
The genteel gyrsy and the motor car
gyrsy do not exist here IS yet except in
isolated instances. elthough the habit OF
going on camping "trirs and canoe triTs
and cruises on salt and fresh water is well
enough known.
Yet there era PEOPLE in some parts OF the
country who do go Cyl sying even now. a
young man who has a lot of fun running a
big stock farm in the central part Of New
York State spent his honeymoon in a novel
way a few years ago
His bride was fond of the out OF doors
like himself. So they packed the requisite
equipment into a light covered farm wagon
and s-ent their honeymoon driving through
the hills and valleys of New York, cooking
for themselves, sleeping in the woodsunder
the stars or in the wagon under the canvas
canopy according TO wind and weather
| and having no end of good fun and a delight
full honeymoon in 80 doing.
Even a partial sketch of what Ameri-
can gyysying there il would be incom-
plete without some reference to a white
bearded old fellow who a year ago started
on a preaching tour through the middle
! West from New York. He and his old wife
blessed their children, packed up their
farm wagon, took a good cargo Of Bibles,
tracts and potato peelers and started.
The old fellow preached the GOSPEL in
every small own they went through, selling
the potato peelers 10 make a living. for IL
did not seem right 10 him to collect money
from the reor le who listened TO his dis
courses. He used 10 say he didn't know
which he loved best. his children. his wife
his Bible or the oren road.
Ii needed no assurance from hin to be-
lieve that he did love the last. And lucky
are the PEOPLE somew here out in the West
who are listening TO his itinerant Preaching
Of the Gospel and To his genial philosophy
of life and of the wide blue sky. +