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Gypsy Proud Of Supposed Descent From Egyptian Royal

wagons or motor cars have only
modest completeness. but they have
with them or In safe deposit vaults
somewhere thousands and thousands
of dollars worth of rare jewelry.
This. however, can hardly be classed
as part of their fortunes, since, as
far as the thought Of selling IL Is
concerned, 1t might as well be so
much sawdust.
1t Is the rarest thing in the world
for a gypsy. even though many times
removed from purity of blood, to sell
a single piece of jewelry or even tn
be willing to discuss It's monetary
value. 1t is passed along. from
mother to daughter, and worn some
times and sometimes put away for
years. butt remains. sOn one oc-
casion OF bitter need, I know, not
personally. but through other gypsies.
that a Romany man pawned about
half the jewelry OF his family. 1t
was redeemed, however. piece by piece
until all were restored. Although
sickness and other mtsfortunes had
made that family much poorer for
time, II did not prevent their re-
covering their heirlooms as quickly
as possible.
Many Of the English gypsies are
Methodists and Episcopalians, while
those of the other races are often
ardent Catholics. notwithstanding
this. they all have superstitions. Gus
toms. thought channels, instincts. be-
liefs and emotional reactions that are
as remote from this age and from
all Christianity as though they had
this moment stepped across the thou
sands of years from ancient Egypt.
Though they die out, as a pure race.
1t is rare heritage that they possess
and this the world is slowly COM
ing to appreciate.
Copyright. 1897
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which those conditions can be wisely
handed. Twice in my own life
have heard the impending death Of
sitter predicted. with the advice to
put all financial matters. in order. In
one of these cases there was not the
slightest symptom Of disease and
neither l nor the sitter really gave
the prediction any thought:
A real mystic" always tries to
work up following among educated
people. since she feels that It Is there
that she will be appreciated. Sell
dom It is that she fails in this The
less gifted are content to work for
the folk whose problems are less in
.tricate. Both types Of fortune tellers
make 4 great deal of money. The
rigid ruling IN the United States
away whole colonies Of gypsies. VINO
have gone to Canada, where the mild
and tolerant. British lion allows them
70 follow their thousand-year-ol
profession and pays no heed SO long
as there are no complaints from the
community. Many have returned to
England and to Hungary, to Spain.
Egypt India. Arabia and other dis
tant homes which they have not seen,
often, for several generations.
OF those who remain many are in
dependent of the need for making
money!. having enough property of
various kinds to be entirely comfort
able, especially as their way of liv
ing does not call for the expenditure
Of great dNl Of cash.
During : the war personally knew
of about fifty thousand dollars worth
OF liberty bonds that were purchased
by gypsies, and this, of course, could
have been only fraction Of the total
, amount. since / knew only Of an oc-
castcna1 purchase. A good many
gypsies, half-gypstes and less than
half went to the war.
Stocks and bonds have heavy hold
ings among the English gypsies. but
in this country the distinctive ten
dcncy is to put money in farms and
small town houses. The Hungarians,
Poles and Bohemians incline to TAX
ing silent partn nerships in stores and
peddlers, wagons, while the orien-
! tails. Arabs and so on are often 'con-
cession people;" that is to say, they
buy the pieces Of ground which are
called concessions, in fair grounds
and the like, and either use them
hot I've 70 oil
jugglers and conjurers) or rent them
out, travelling around from one part
4, of the country to the other, follow
, ing the line Of these entertainments.
One Of them, part Arab and part
Hungarian, born In this country, goes
under Jewish name, speaks Yiddish
and Hungarian, the Arabian form of
the Romany language. perfect, and
even idiomatic English. has a unique
sort of cultures, knowing the Koran
and the Bible well, possesses the
choicest slang vocabulary 1t has ever
a derby hat! He Is by, all odds the
most astounding figure in the gypsy.
dom of America
I am sure that this man is worth
several hundred thousand dollars. as
his activities include the backing OF
an occasional ..burlesque" company
and the managing of a whole country
fair. In the latter capacity ne Is well
known in . number Of southern
!! ? - sr...s. sasf = :"
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"O the editor: Some wks. ago
I had a few wds to say. in re-
CARDS TO formal dinner parties
and what kind of a table TO
set for same and since then I been
beseiged with letters from readers
beseiging me to devote more articles
to social etiquette and as more than
one of these letters makes special
mention Of the matter of introduc-
tions ] may as we'll devote this arti-
Gle to that subject.
One reader enclosed me a copy of
a article on this subject by Mrs. Julia
Hoyt Of n. Y. city who is suppose to
be the last wd. In decoruns of all
kinds but the article in question left
many pts to be cleared up at lease in
the opinion OF the party who sent it
in and the last named wanted I should
clarity these matters and also state
what changes ff any has been made
in the code since Mrs. Hoyt's article
seen print.
One pit for inst. which the lady did
not even touch on was the matter of
introducing . people to each other
when you don't know neither ones
name.
This use to happen a whole lot more
in the old days when people done
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their drinking standing up, but they
Is still plenty of occasions when this
embarrassing situation rises a spe-
cially in Pullman wash rms. or at
national convention of the moose.
1 always kind of laugh 1t off and
say something to the effect that you
2 boys know each other of course
and they generally tell one another
what their name is which also gives
be a clew.
y X 4 X
MRS. HoYT gives 1t as a gen. rule
lNl that when you are making a
plain introduction you just say Mrs.
Reed, Mrs. Wallace" unlest of course
their names happens to be Mrs. Pink
ney and Mrs. Welsh. But she says
that when one woman is a young
woman and the other one amt 50
young, why the young one should
ought to be presented to the older
one, so II Mrs Wallace is older than
Mrs. Reed you have got to say Mrs.
Wallace, Mrs. Reed"
Now days however what with bob
| bed hair and funny clothes 1t ain't
, always possible to be sure and per-
son would be a fool to go ahead with
the introduction without first asking
the Q danes which Is the oldest.
According to Mrs Hoyts article.
when a man and woman is introduced
the woman amt required to shake
hands unlest the guy sticks out his
hand, but IL he does so it is very rude
for the woman to not grab a hold
of 1t.
Personly however have been in
| troduced to many a dame that must
| of thought. I was holding out my
hand SO as she could admire the cal
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years, near the town of Windsor.
y. 6, there were some fine Indian
basket makers. members of the Mic
mac tribe. and every year practically
their whole output was bought by
man with as dark a skin as their
own. They never knew what he was.
hut Boston and the well-to-do sub
urbs used to be patroled every fall
by some Very picturesque-looki 6
gypsies, who sold real gypsy weav-
ing. lady at prices that were those
of the genuine profiteer!
This particular gypsy family had
ten members. including several dis
tant connections. and when l went
to stop with them for an occasional
visit IL was with great amusement
that l would hear their very ac""~ate
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7 HAVE said that the gypsy man
does not work steadily. but there
are many instances in which this is
not true. There is very fine gypsy
Of the Bowman family in Port stan
ley. Ontario, who for years has held
steady Job there. Another Is the
overseer Of a Jamaica plantation,
where he went as a young man, and
has remained ever since.
A posh-and- posh has been an ac-
countant in Detroit for the last ten
years. All of these men, 1t is true,
contrive to get an amount Of the out
door life that other men in their po-
sitions are not likely to gain. They
walk long distances to and from
work: their holidays and Sundays
are spent out of doors. even when
the weather is bad; they sleep with
the open window and have a horror
Of a musty room or of one into which
the sun never-falls.
If there is such a thing as a rae
ing stable anywhere within reach
tHey are Ilkely 10 De round tnere
whenever they are not at work or
asleep They also hate hotel and
restaurant food. and, as all gypsy
men are good cooks, they will con-
trive to have a stove and a pot or
two, no matter how they are living.
This brings to mind that at one. OF the
southern resorts there Is a chef who
is much heralded as a Hindoo, and
whose concoctions are supposed to be
Asiatic In origin. This man Is a
puro Romag, and on the proceeds
OF his work has brought up a family
of very bright girls and boys, all
Of whom have taken to the profess
sions. One of the girls Is now giving
promise of decided literary ability.
Many of the families who live In
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"Anything on the Hip"
Is a Polite Question
BY RING LARDNER

louses or something and I been hu-
inflated SO many times along these
lines that now days when they's a
ways pretend like I was unIoosenins
my belt or looking through my vest
pockets for a tooth pick.
1t IS we'll to remember that when
the party who is making the intro
ductions says "NIr. Boiling, shake
hands with Mrs. Gavin" that don't
nessarily mean that you got to shake
hands The introducer amt got no
authority to designate the mode of
caress and irregardless of whatever
he says you are free to put your arm
around Mrs. Gavin or slap her face
or ignore her entirely.
The reader who sent me Mrs
Hoyt's article marked one paragraph
which she says has got her all up IN
the air namely the paragraph where
1t says that If You are presenting
your married daughter to a older
man you have got to say My daugh-
ter. Mrs. Reed"
She says that since reading the
article she has had Vulnerable occa-
sions to introduce her daughter to old
galoots and when she springs that
Mrs. Reed" they all think she is
ginny as it is a notorious fact that
the name of the man her daughter
married is Eyclesheimer. OF course
in case like this you half TO use
your own judgement and as far as
1 am conserned l would be a whole
lot more libel to think that a woman
was 1-2 seas over if she told me her
daughters name was Mrs. cycles
heimer.
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MRS. HOYT'S article goes on to say
4fA that when you present anybody
, to the President you are suppose 70
say MIR. President, I have the honor
to present Mr.. Burke of San Fran
CISCO" but when you introduce them
10 Cardinal you must say Your
Eminence, may 1 present Mr.. Burke"
My reader don't think its hardly
fair to tell the President where Nj.
Burke is from but to keep II a secret
from the Cardinal, but personly IL
looks to me like this was making
mountain out Of mole hole because
II Mr. Burke is really from San Fran
cisco. the dialogue amt libel to con-
tinue more than 2 or hrs. before
the Cardinal kind of suspects same.
1t is the worst kind of form to ask
the introducer TO say a name over
| when you did not catch 1T the 1st.
time but they's a way to get around
! this. Like for inst. suppose you are
! introduced to pretty gal and you
amt got no idear what the man said
| her name was, why all as you half to
do Is say 81 am certainly please to
! meet you, Miss Gourmand" or some
such name and she will say MY name
| Is Andrews, please"
In closing up her article Mrs. Hoyt
gives a list of don't in introductions
and amongst them she says don't ask
no personal questions a moment after
you have been introduced. A great
many people might have different
| idears in regards to what is personal
| questions as used in this connection
and no doubt some poor hicks will
| draw the line too fine and refrain
from asking questions which might
Of been regard as too personal in the
old days but would be o. K. now.
Maybe l would better wind up this
little article of my own by giyeing
couple examples Of what kind OF
questions not to ask and what kind is
perfectly permissible.
| Well then we will pretend like you
have just been introduced to a man
named Harley. Don't say to him
Glad to meet you. Mr.. Harley. Do
| you and your wife get along all
right?" or "Glad to know you, Mr.
Harley. What makes you limp?"
But do say If you feel like It.
please to meet you. Mr.. Harley. Got
anything on the hip?"
| RING w, LARDNER-
|. Great Neck, Long Island, March ID.
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estimate as to what. individuais
how they played up" to the demand
for the picturesque; and as to the
good or bad taste of the homes
where their supposed to-be product
was placed.
In the winter they lived in a very
pleasant apartment on Lexington
avenue New York, since both the
girls were taking voice culture! ]
am sure that If they SO much as
knew how to darn their stockings
it was to be wondered at, but In
their red skirts, sashes. big earrings
and other colorful arrangements
they certainly could talk convincing
ly about how they worked those
baskets under water and the skill
with which they had TO be dried by
the full of the moon.
Many of the motor caravans which
are now~so familiar combine a num-
Der of well-paying industries. The
mother and often the girls will tell
fortunes. and as they usually make
the same route they have clients
awaiting their arrival everywhere
AS they grow familiar with these
peoples affairs. year by year. the
fortune" finally comes to be the Civ
ing Of often shrewd and very good
adviced on all sorts of matters.
Many farmers buy and sell stock
and real estate only when so ad-
vised by visiting gypsy women. This
is not all the business that can be
contracted. however. A gypsy man.
as he is a wizard with a horse, has
now become genius with mach
cry. I have repeatedly seen some
good mechanic try to run one Of the
rickety cars IN which the gypsy bowls
along at good clip, only to And that
he can do nothing with 1t whatso-
ever.
The swapping Of "fiivvers" is,
therefore, a paying business for the
gypsy man. Very often the family
will start out with a broken-down
old machine, for which they Will
pay $50 and will get home in
the fall with all but a brand-new
touring car, the same having been
obtained by progressive swaps. The
new car is then sold, and you may
be sure that 1t will be at good
price. and the process begun over
again. -~.-
THE tradition that the gypsy man
j will not work is entirely untrue
He is not successful as a steady. by.
the-year worker. but as farm hand
for harvest and other strenuous
times, he is highly priced by those
who understand his excellence. In
August and September many of the
caravans "1ie up near farms while
the men and boys tuck In and dc
two mems work a day for a while
Gypsy men are good storekeepers
and there are numerous novelty
stores at the seashore and other re-
sorts which are kept by them, while
their womenfolk, at discreet dis
tance, conduct fortune-telling booths
1t is not true that gypsy women tell
fortunes by the cards. Thew may dc
this, sometimes, as an amusement, but
when they really work" they rely
wholly on the lines Of the. palm to
give them start. after which they
are either guessing shrewdly or are
actually using some sixth, sense
which is highly developed in a few
of them.
No guessing. for instance, will ac.
count for the fact that some of these
"mystics' can and do unerringly
describe to the sitter the conditions
of his or her life and the. ways II
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~yPSY women used to we.-se bas-
" kets occasionally, just as any
women might, for pastime, but they
never made them 10 sell and usually
those which they carried about and
sold at a high price were ordinary
store articles which they bought by
the wholesale. or baskets which they
purchased from the Indians. For
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paid for these personal visits. 81
and SO for others and 81 for very
brief work. At the end OF the day.
there was g total Of s14O packed away
under the cushions. Higher than
usual. said the worker. bat there was
seldom day in which at least $50
would not be taken in.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-01-25
ANOTHER BOOZE JOINT ROUTED

Sheriff John T. Jefferis and Officers
of Washington county. routed an
Iother booze joint last Thursday night,
'or rather early Friday morning and
captured one of the most perfect stills
that has been found in this part Of
the country.
= Having been thoroughly satisfied
as to conditions and location of this
plant. Sheriff NJ. L. Linkous and two
deputies of Washington county and
to Payette Thursday evening and
about eleven O'Clock that night, in
company with Sheriff Jefferis and
w. R. Williams drove to the upper
end of Sand Hollow and without any
difficulty found the still at three
O'Clock in the morning, located in a
cement basement at the rear of an
old house, but the occupants of the
house and operators of the plant
were absent. They had evidently not
been gone long however for the vat
was still warm, "a gallons of whiskey,
several barrels of mash and sacks OF
'sprouted rye and quantity of sugar
were also in the basement. The plant
being just across the county line into
Washington county the outfit was
taken by the Washington county Of
ficers to Weiser
1t is believed that this still which
was of good material and large enough
for a heavy output, has been in oper-i
alton for several years and has sup.
piled chain of boot-legegrs over
considerable territory.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-01-25
MORE GAME
BIRDS PLANTED

Another crate of Hungarian
Partridge were received by express
Monday by Deputy Game Warden
Geo. Boorf from Otto NJ Jones, state
game warden. There were ten pair
in the crate, and were > part Of the
second shipment. coming direct from
England, 200 pairs were received in
this shipment. They were turned
over to the Payette Gun Club and
were liberated a few miles east of
Payette, where there is ample shelter.
These birds are not accustomed to
this country and should be fed, espe-
cially in case of deep snow. The
ones that were planted on the Fred
Harper ranch several weeks ago still
remain on his place and are being
fed by Mr.. Harper.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-01-25
TAKE NEEDLE
FROM CHI[O'S ARM

Neva Deeds, six year old daugh'
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. W. Deeds, OF
Emmett, and granddaughter Of Mr
and Mrs. C.. w. Young of Fruitland
is the subject Of quite mystery. On
the 5th of January the child fell and
hurt her wrist, which gave her con-
siderable pain, her arm was carried
in a sling for several days, finally
she was taken to a doctor in Emmett,
who placed the arm in splints and
thereafter made several examinations,
finally discovering a small red spot
on the arm just above the wrist
joint. An X-ray exposure disclosed
a needle extending through the arm
between the bones, which was re-
moved with but little difficulty. The
needle was an ordinary sized one
with small portion broken off the
point. The doctors say, in all pro-
liabilities the needle has been in the
flesh for several years. II is quite
a mystery as the parents have no
recollection of any incident having
occurred that might have caused the
accident
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-01-25
THRIFT WEEK IN JUNIOR HIGH

4 The most unique place on the
pages of our history, perhaps the
most unique in the records OF any
nation, is held by Benjamin Frank
lin. Thrift Week, just celebrated
has made the nation realize how
fitted he was to cope with such
problems as are troubling this
century.
His staunchest admirers are the
American boys and girls 10 whom his
reads like fairy tale.
Friday. the pupils of Division l,
Eighth grade, assisted in one num-
ber by Division 1. of the Seventh
grade. gave a program during which
the audience was not allowed for one
moment 10 forget Franklin.
The numbers were musical, bio
graphical sketches, maxims and
eulogies.
The program closed with a play in
which incidents of Franklin's career
from Building the Wharf to Sign
ing the Declaration" were portrayed.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-01-25
PROSPERITY RESTORED

Back in Iowa, where less than two
years ago the people were crying
hard times, no money to buy any
thing. The depreciation in lands
and farm products had seemingly
busted the whole country, today we
notice in a paper from a small town
of less than 500 inhabitants, the
statement of two small banks, one
a capital stock of $4,000, the other
S25,Ug0, where the combined time
deposits amount to nearly one half a
million. 1t would seem from this
that prosperity had again been re-
stored. Just remember. stringent
times and prosperity travel westward.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-01-25
MEMBERS
OF HER COMMITTEE

Mrs. R. A. Crump chairman of the
public welfare COMMITTEES, Of the
Portia club, entertained the members
of her committee at a delightful din
ner party last Thursday afternoon,
Mr.. Crump being drafted into SER
vice with team, wagon and hay-rack
to haul the ladies to and from the
Crump home two miles north of town.
A sumptuous layout Of many good
things to eat composed of home pro-
ducts of the Crump farm vas greatly
enjoyed by the following hdies. who
report a most pleasant afternoon: :.
Mesdames o. D. Cole. D. A Florer.
W. A. Jacobs, S. ]. Kennepp, W NJ
Lamott, Wyman Longfeaow, E H.
Murphy, H. Pugh. F. E. seeiey, viii
Wells and H. r. Young Besides the
members of the public vplfare com
mittee, the specially hivfed guests
were Mesdames. F. H Hague, W. A
Coughanour, TerwiIhgsr. August
Young, Rex Bradsh3W, aFA Also Mrs.
w4yne Keith, azxlElter r a 3ffs.
Crump, who assisted In serving the
dinner.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-01-25
MARRIED TWICE IN ONE DAY

Married twice in one day was the
experience OF Robert D. Aikens and
Nellie I. Vaughn, both Of Boise. They
came to Payette Sunday morning
Jan. 14th. and secured the necessary
marriage license. and from here
drove to Nyssa, Oregon, where the
ring ceremony was pronounced by the
Justice of the Peace of that place
They then drove to Payette a2d de-
livered the license 10 Lillian Wilson.
Clerk of the District Court. OF this
county. who informed them they were
not legally married. the license being
used out of the state. A duplicate
license was issued and the ceremony
legally peIprmed by Judge Luther
Of t1is plaee.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1923-01-25
BRIGHT LIGHTS
CAUSE ACCIDENT

Sam Raby and Sam Kennedy ex
periences rather a cold and une1
peeted bath Sunday evening anc
since it is all over, consider they
were exceedingly fortunate that bott
were not drowned. The two mel
were reurning from Payette Sunday
evening shortly after dark, and when
nearing the bridge across the old
logging slough about a mile south OF
town. Mr.. Raby who was driving his
Ford, was compelled TO slow down
and turn out being blinded by the
bright lights of an approaching car
coming toward town, and not being
able to see the paving got little to
far out when the car slid in two feet
of mud and water, neither men were
pinned fast, or in any way injured,
but were completely housed in Sew
eral cars passed by but the cries of
the men in their precarious condition
were unreard, and as the last resort,
Mr.. Raby buried himself in the mud
and water and came up on the out
side, and was followed in like manner
by Mr.. Kennedy. The men were
taken to their homes by Lionel Shurt-
left, who happened along few min
utes later. The car was turned back
on its wheels and brought to town
the following morning on its own
power and with the exception Of the
top and windshield being completely.
was not otherwise in
jured-
This is Just another case of an
accident caused by not dimming
bright lights, that might have caused
the death of both men The driver
Of the bright lights never even
stopped to investigate. If we do not
have a Law governing the dimming
Of lights. it is time one was enacted