The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-02-17
GIRL PREFERS
GYPSY LIFE
To That of The Whirl Of
Our Modern Society.
Deserted Luxuries Of Life for
Hardships Of Gypsy
Camp.

writer In the London Week-End Maya
zins.
The body of the young woman who
lsaped the social barrders in order to
become Queen of King Jongas Mitch
ele, ruler of the most noted tribe Of
gypsies in the world. was claimed by
her father A. w. Habersham a veal
thy broker. The aged father also
took home with him his daughters
half7gypsy baby, six weeks old. to be
rsared in his mansion, which the
mother desertedfcr the call OF the
wild.
Jesse Habersham MitcheAe deserted
the luxuries of life for the halrdships
and sfsmi-banbarism of a gypsy camp
and the love of the wild. Corseted
society was Sitting, she declared. It
brought her no joy, although charmed
arissocratic social circles we've open to
her.
She first saw a gypsy camp while
at a boarding school. She finished
her education and returned home. but
the simple, care-fres life she had wit
messed amorg the gypsias had made
it's impression upon her. She found
existence at home irksome. Six Years
ago she disappeared. Two years later
she communicated with her fahter, tell
ing him of her marriage to Jorgas
Mitchsle, the gypsy king. She wrote
that she was happy and her parents BE-
came reconcilsd.
She became a fortune teller, and of
her experience she writes:
"Ons may read of the pyramids of
Egypt and of the statue of the Sphinx
but cannot realize their granduer nor
fully appreciate the air of mildew and
antiquity which prevades by contem-
plating a mere photograph. Not un-
Til we behold them in actual reality
worth. And so 1t is In all things.
We can obtain but scant knowledge
of the world by perusing books.
I'VE know little of the nlch UNI
lass we have lived among the rich;
We can learn Little of the poor until
We live among the poor. Experience
is the best teacher, but experience
is dearly bought.
Il spent my days as a Wandering
fortune TELLER rowing from door to door
and from land to land, dressed In
gypsy clothes. And | understand
things better than | did in the days
when | viewed life from a different
standpoint
This queen by adoption of the no
tad gypsy tribe ruled by King Jorgas
Mi.chdle lsft diary filled with pho
tographs that she herself took.
In beautifully wcrded English she
describes her emotions as a gypsy
queen.
Il found,' she wrote on the first
page, "there is more love and truth
beneath the canvas of a RCmany tent
than there is in any mansion. There
is NO sham and no hypocrisy here. /
love my husband and he loves me- NO
othe life arppeals to me like this.
We gowh'ane we please and when We
please. If our very tent were taken
from us. we could live under Gods
generous skies, and we would be hap
by.
II do not know for sure, but 1t
seems To me that the associations
have had for the last four years
develop in a way a Persons clalrvoy-'
ant faculties. 1t may sound ridiculous
but | really ,bellve mere or lsss inf
the occult. have got so that 4
can read a Persons character at a
glance. and often surprise myself more
than the persons | am studying by
reading THAR trouble aloud while toll
ing their fortunes"
The clan TO which jesse Habersham
was admitted is known TO have de-
cended from the secani-the artistic
cratic gypsies of Southern Europe. Tn,
students of gypsy history say that
the Secani are the leaders of the race
bhat the claim OF their ancestors to
being the descendants OF tho IsIhmael-
ties is probably true, and that hihs
tribe was driven from its first home
In Egypt by the Saraeens. which fact
earned them the friendship of the
Christian nabions
Once when asked why she had run
away IRON home and adopted the life
OF a nomad, Queen Mitchele said.
81 can't tell you exactly. Perhaps
1t was ons OF those Idle cravings chat
come 10 one for the romantic Il must
have had some firmer basis, though. /
think. or 1t could never have lasted
as 1t has done. But here | am in my
little gypsy camp instead OF In the