Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-12

hair and a great mustache. lie is a fine
conversatonalist, very keen and very
clever, ard, although unable to read, he
Is entirely the slave OF his American
queen.
Like her American sisters. Queen Jessie
understands the fine art OF making
man work for her, 10 is tho custom OF
the gypsies as Il was that OF the Indians
and other aboriginal races, to let the
women do the work. The women do all
the camp work. cooking, etc, while the
men trade horses, play cards and have
a good time about town and camp. The
fortune telling of the women is the chief
source OF revenue. The women are the
producers, the men mostly the consumers
though many OF them make good money
trading horses, manufacturing copper ket-
ties, samovars. urns, etc.
Queen Tells Fortunes.
Queen Jessie is not above telling fortunes.
Her love of the occult is natural. Long
before she became gypsy she studied
psychopathery, astrology and other occult
sciences. Now she is telling fortunes in a
tent. She even goes to private houses and
tells fortunes. for. owing TO a bad winter
in the show business. her husband, who is
a producer OF gypsy entertainments, is not
as rich as no has been.
But when King Gorge Is ION his feet"
he does the work and Queen Jessie lives
like a queen. She has weaned her king
from his gypsy life and put him TO work
as the veriest American stock broker works
to supply his queen with gewgaws She
! has implanted in him love OF education
and of progress that is wholly foreign to
the gypses, who do not believe in nor care
about education.
| There is much that is attractive about
the lean. wiry Tsigane with the immense
| mop of crisp, black hair, but most girls
would find his immense black moustache
| trying. He is gentle in his ways, speaks
softly in a low voice. and has about him
an air of breeding that belongs to most
| gypsies. For there is not low type in
the Ludare camp of 100 people. Every head
| is well shaped, every eye keen and bright,
| every back strong and straight, every
| mind alert and keen. But not one person
! in the camp save the American queen can
! write his or her own name or would recog-
nize 1t If printed in letters foot high be-
fore their eyes.
Some OF the women are very beautiful.
| Goonah, woman of the tribe whom Queen
Jessie says is the most typical gypsy she
has ever seen is a perfect beauty. The
children are all splendid specimens, rolling
in the clay dirty, but healthy and sound as
nuts. One boy Of years. a son OF Goonah,
might be a model for a Rubens. His head
| is beautifully shaped and covered with
curls; his ears splendid, his profile beauti-
full as a Greek god, his chest deep as that
OF lion.
The parents of Gorge are in the camp
The father Gorge, sr., is 96 years old, but
he can back a colt or make a trade as
keenly as a man OF 40 years His wife
Coolodi, is IS years old. tall as a pine and
stnl strong and active woman During
the entire winter not single soul from the
aged great grandfather to the little tot wa,
i'll for moment. John Mitchell, elder
brother of Gorge, is a grandfather anc
looks 30, but is grandfather many timei
over. He is slender as a boy and there Il
not a gray hair in his black name. Gorg,
Is 40 years old. and has head of hair tina
would do honor to Samson.
Cargo Mitchell speaks Roumanian, Slavic
Austrian. Italian, French. Spanish Ger
man and English, though he cannot write
word. He learned these languages at frs
hand from the peasants of the nation
through which he has travelled.
Thoreau. you know, holds that he VIII
travels afoot travels faster than he wht
goes atrain. The Sage of. Concord argues
} that the gypsy who earns his way III
) goes travels faster than the millionair,
: who first waits to make money with which
he may pay his way, so that he will no
only see more but see it sooner and faster
t Bob Gilkas, one of the tribe, has travele'
all along the line Of the Andes and Rookie
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travelling all Asia in the same way, with
( wagon.
They are strange people, these gypsies
wonderfully true to nature and tremen
dously virile.-St. Louis Republic.