Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1917-12-07

In South France. on the Medlter.
rnncnn.
There they chose the gypsy king.
Why there2 Because n servant wom-
an OF Juden. In the days Of our Lord
Jesus lived the last years OF her life
In this French fishing vlllage-and be-
cnme the patron saint OF all the gyp-
sizes.
Alone. among the lnsoons. with the
antique villnge grown round It. rises
the venerable edlhce which has exist
ed, In some form, since the dawn Of
Christianity. Good old King Rene of
Provence gave II Its present inspect In
144s.
History and legend tell how two Of
The Marys OF the Gospels were Gust on
this shore by a tempest. The Gentiles
OF Antioch had put them In n boat with.
out sail or oars. They were women
who Ind wept at the foot OF the cross
and visited the tomb and found the
Lord had risen. Mary sHlome and
Mary the mother Of James lived on this
spot with their Egyptian servant, who
was wrecked with them and whose
name was Sarah. Here they built tho
church, died and were buried In II.
And because of Sarah (she who be-
came the gypsles' patron). these sands,
each year, and greatly every flfth year.
we're strangely peopled.
Over the roads came professions of
blznrre vehicles, prehistoric stage
coaches, prairie %schooners, gypsy vans
and rich house wagons mounted and
surrounded by a dusky people. Some
had dragged for months. and some for
years
Three times May has slipped round
since the war" said a minor official,
'and no gypsies have appeared ut the
SITS. Mnries. In May. 1914. there were
three thousand In the German-Aus-
trlan-D anublan camp. while the Ital-
an-Spanlsh-Gre GIsanos were less
numerous but richer. without quar-
reling they met In not very good friend
ship, the G%erinanos being Jealous OF
the Gitanos' newer. finer wagons"
was there sny truth In the rumor,"
I asked, that the Gitanos had made a
find Of some great treasure about
eight years ago. which all the gypsies
hnd been seeking for three hundred
yearsf"
The French official professed igno-
rance.
Did they really elect a klngf
"They elect a queen" said NJ. Be-
billie. Local opinion judges the cleo
tion to be a kind OF play, as on Holy
lnnocents' Day or Twelfth Night .
but as no order wal given to penetrate
to the crypt, Of which the Romanich-
els are very Jealous. exactly what hap
pens Is not known. . . There 10
no complaint. The pilgrimage amusea
the peasants and brings slghtseers and
money. The crypt Ia turned over to
the gypsles on the night OF May 24-26."
What can we known When the
chiefs 90 down the winding stairs "a
the subterranean arched hall, what
signs from Memphis and Thebes 90
they mark on the wallf What sudden
CLEAN Of light (perhaps) Joins the scat.
tered descendants OF the magnificent
accursed race which pretends to know
the future OF the world7
"NOt so united as all that . :"
murmured mn official.
l do not bring the controlear-general
into this romantic part OF II. But I
have come across queer mentions Of
'The Song Of Pharaoh" which they
sing down In the crypt, the reading OF
the gypsy gospel, and the oldest mag.
lcian" who. ench time. "foretells the
future OF the world for the next ave
years.
ibid he foretell II In May, 1el4r'
I suggested.
one of the French officials equivo
Gated politely.
'"They got away from the war; he
said. "The gypsies dlsappearedr
Most people will tell you they went d
Spaip.