The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1923-07-12
NOW LITTLE USED
But Once the Term TO evo,
Was Common.
Had lts Origin In a PartieuI,,
Of swindiins Which Auto lsro.,"
Did Away With

Stopping at an iron gate ho,..,
which crowd Of lusty scboo,h"I4
were playing, l heard the cry: '
HE crooked my marbles"
Sympathizers gathered around :.
stantly, when heard spotcha.
graphic exclamation. "swiped 's,, "
said one. GU
"Who gypped him" inquired on.
other. ID
Gypped. crooked. swlped, took III.
place Of the milder terms stole ,e,,ss
or took.
Listening another day, found ,h,,
"gypped' was word Frequently sn
played by the boys. writes "Gin,dr
In the Philadelphia Inquirer. fsns,
not one Of them had a notion Of ho.
1t came to have such a meaning -,
they put into 1t.
Some years ago ''gypped" was cor
mon enough. That was when a ma,
ticular form Of swlndllng on the mn
Of horse dealers was branded Win
that word. w
Palming OF sawbones for q pood
steed was deemed parallel to ths
tricks In horse-trading, so common IA
gypsies, hence the term "gyp" to dA
note that kind Of fraud.
Since the auto has largely replaced
the trotter and PAGER for driving pur.
poses, the gyp game Is not played 80
frequently now.
1t was once piled systematically by
means OF extensive advertising, MANY
rus In urbe" lured first by con.
vincing advertisement and then combel
down by a slick come-on artist, paid
n fancy price for what appeared to
him to be a first-class horse, only To
discover next day he had bought a
lemon.
There was a regular medical treat.
ment of horses to make them appear
spry and spirited while under inspec.
ton. When the drug wore off and the
poor horse was recovering from his
Jag, he would likelier than not appear
sorry animal.
Gyp operators were as skillfu In
buying the precise kind of horses they
needed us in selling them. They usu
ally looked for handsome animals
whose defects were vital and incur
able, but not noticeable.
That meant low price they paid
the owner. A powerful drug would pu.
enough pep into such horse to fool
the victim selected by the gyp opera
tor. The wOrkhorse you see in Phlli.
delphia today is a better animal than
was his predecessor two decades ago
But the Philadelphia horse is not In
a class with the London horse, the
Berlin horse or the Budapest horse.
Stop at a farm going through Hun.
gary and you will be amazed at the
superb horses.
1.-THE brewers big horses" which
Billy Sunday sang could not run over
him, were unusually fine specimen
One coal company has also attracted
| much attention with its teams OF I'VE
or six great white horses hltched to
one wagon.
A high city Official said to me: 'Ou'
| garbage horses are better type than
you ever saw before doing that kind
Of work in this city," and l agreed with
him.
This IL about the season Of the year
when In those gala times OF fourth
hand coaches the city had an eye
feast on superb horsellesh.
And milady In her car, however
good 1t may be. looks less smart than
when she stepped from her carriage
drawn by pair of htsh'steppI
hackneys, who seemed ever trying 70
hit their noses with their knees.
Jlngling chains. FURNISHED harness
natty coachman and footman IN AZ
tendance. spotless vehlcle-"them VIII
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