Evening journal., 1919-09-12
PRETTY RET|E LASS LASS IS IS
OFF GYPSY TRAIL
Gin Who Spent is Years
th Tribe fakes Up
Civilized Life

HELENA, Mont, Sepk iz--Evelyn
Davis Marino, aged 2i, trained from
babvhood as a gypsy and ignorant OF all
.xcepf the dark life OF caravan ana
eamn-fre. rags and mysticism, cruelty
and ulIarrels-today IS a gypsy no more
And neither Evelyn herself-pretty'
brilliant. with brain starving for knOwl-
,dre and soul thirsty for beauty and
-efnemcnt-nor vet the learned folk
,ho are marveling at the girls quick
ness in learning, can explain why this
IS so.
something awoke in Evelyn's heart,
something called. and she obeyed.
EVELYN thought herself a gypsy by
birth. For Is years she lived with the
wanderers Of Romany; spoke their jar
gon, copied their customs. learned TO
lie. steal. tell fortunes and cheat the
conventional stay at = homes, the
gypsies' proper prey.
Nobody told her that she was an
American girl Of good family. Nobody
hlnted that the gypsles had kidnapped
her from a convent In Butte, Mont,
when she was a 3-ycar-old baby. She
had no conscious memory Of the gem
lie sisters and soft-voiced priests Of her
infant sleep.
She was married 70 a gypsy boy OF
royal blood a lad OF i2 BY that mar
risge she would some day become a
gypsy queen.
Yet the morning dawned when she
awoke and dreamed 10 herself;
Il am not a gypsy"
Forthwith she left the life OF Vaga-
nd =. az
ancestors. Some say 70 was the "call OF
the blood" others ascribe it 10 the
training OF those FIRST three years. The
old dispute between Inheritance and en-
vIronment Isl revived i'm ENelyn's case.
She ran away from the sypsies. Clad
in her gaudy rags and trinkest with
gin-browned skin and dark locks TO
complete the makeup, she appeared In
fhe office Of Miss Theresa Rich, proba-
fion officer OF Oakland, Cal, and said
Il do not want 70 be a gypsy any
more. I want TO find a good home and
be educated. ! want 20 be divorced !
from my gypsy boy husband and begin |
life again.
Miss Rich investigated and learned /
Evelyn's story from a gypsy who ad- |
mitied the truth The convent records |
were found. Like The Bohemian Girl" |
I'm the fine old opera, Evelyn had re-
turned 90 her former ways.
Now she is with friends In Helena.
For six months she has been studying
night and day, mastering the grammar
school curriculum in amazingly short /
time. going on through high school /
cOurSes and even tackling the harder /
branches taught In universities
For Evelyn has a splendid mind The |
Sharpening Of her wits in rs years Of |
gypsy life has not hurt that brain
power az all
"Shc could neither read nor write
say Miss Rich ''yet she passed our in /
tellircnce tests with amazing ease.
"0nce she had learned 10 read-which I
She did with amazing rapidity-she be- /
came absorbed IN history, science. !
fairy-tales, novels. anything and every /
Thing in print. Her favorile book /
which she read again and again In I
those early days. was Little Women. /
Mark my words, Evelyn is going 90 /
be heard from. She Is entirely too re-
markahle TO fail OF doing something
bir.7
There was only one set-back-an un-
canny hypnotic" influence said TO have
been exercised by a gypsy woman.
Marie Gych her "godmother." In 1915
when Evelyn made her first break for
liberty, Marie Gych, compelled her TO
return 10 the tribe.
But now hypnotism can do no more.
Tor Evelyn Is in love.
She IS engaged TO marry a Montana
mining man, OF considerable wealth
Her suit for divorce from the Marino
boy, The i2-yesr old prince" IS pend
ing in the courts.
The Bohemian Girl" may soon lnd
that her dream Of dwelling in marble
halls has come true.