The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-23
Gypsy PRINCESS
TIRES OF TRAVEL
Fifteen Year Old Bride Loves
Her Husband, but Does
Not Like Rain.

Elizabeth. n. j.. May 22.--she still
loves her gypsy prince, Millen Johnson,
but the sixteen.year-o bride, Princess
Catherine Irilbatis Johnson. is back
home in Elizabeth. The march of the
sRomany tribe to Rhode Island was
bit too strenuous for the granddaugh-
ter of the Hargises of old Kentucky.
The long drives through the country.
where farmers looked on with suspi-
cion. the halt at night In lonely woods.
the arduous pitching OF tents and the
hasty breaking camp in the morning
for another days march wore on her,
and SO she is homo. Millen. the eigh-
teen-year- husband. Is still with his
people He is paying her $40 week
There is mystery in GATHERINGS
life that she has tried hard to unravel.
SO have newspapers and the police
of Elizabeth, but without avail. Tho
whereabouts of her mother. who was
Mamie Hargis OF Breathi,t county
KY. Is the mystery. She ran away
from Kentucky and married Lighfoot
Taylor Filhatis, OF Richmond. After
FIVE children had been born the father
died The family came to New York.
Mother Married Here.
After struggling in vain here to keep
her brood together. the mother placed
them in tho Five Points Mission of In
dustry. Thcn she went to Philadelphia
and was married to Carl Marison. The
children soon were sent to homes in
the country.
After Catherine grew UP In family
at Ramona. Steuben county, n. Y, she
started out to find the mother. whose
tear-stained face. Just as she looked
| when she kissed her good-by in the
mission. has haunted her. She driftcd
! to Elizabeth. friendless little girl.
| working as servant. There she Wis
| tied the gypsy camp of the Johnsons.
| Young Millen watched her as she stood
| before Grandma Johnson to have her
| palm read and heard that "a handsome
dark man" would cross her path. He
resolved TO be that dark man-and
was.
| The story has been told of the mar
riage In the Catholic Church al 3ltz-
abeth on February 90. Father o'Seill
| tying the knot under special dispen-
sation from the bishop. for the girl was
! only fifteen and alone In the world
Likes Gypsies, but Not Nuin.
you needn't think that am going
| back on the gypsy life just because
am home she said yesterday in the
| parlor OF a woman friend on Maple
| Street II am not. But tie long rides
and the drifting rain on the leaves
| outside the tent when l woke in the
| night tired me- l talked 1t over with
Millen and Grandma Johnson, the
| queen, and grandma patted me on the
cheek and said, Poor little girl. it's
new to you l asked Millen to let me
! come home for little While. and here
| | am.
| while we lived here In camp at Ellz-
abeth 1t was albright. ] liked the
jingle of gold coins around my neck
and 1t was lovely to be called The
Princess People came and looked at
me and asked questions. l told for
tunes and made much money. But then
came the breaking up OF the camp and
the march to New England, and though
Millen had a $500 house wagon made
for me. everything got on my nerves.
| The women had to do all the hard work.
They would help to pitch the tents
| then they would get wood, build the
| fire and cook At bedtime the women
would tie the horses and put more
wood on the fire.
| Became Fortune Teller.
!, "Outside Fall River, in wood, we
/ pitched for month. Every day we
women went into Boston on the train
! to tell fortunes along Washington
i Street. Sometimes two women went at
a time into a saloon to tell fortunes
| and often got as much as SIS in one
place.
4 'But somehow didn't like 1t.
haven't anything to say against the
gipsies. They're as honest as any other
people. But got tired of It, and one
day Millen found me in the tent cry
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