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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
HOLIDAY WITH THE GIPSIES
STRANGE ADVENTURES AMONG ROMANIES
“VAGABOND” TOURS EUROPE
(By Dr. Walter Starkie.)
la traditional
In all of us there are two selvès.
pass within.
attachment to
the
On the 40 mark, he is a keen, As our first conventional self we arched gate of the town, for form- active man whose cheerfulness has go through life mechanically, pay-erly they were never allowed to earned him a wide popularity both |
ing meticulous attention to what with, the Turks and the local Brit-
One night in July 1931 I stood near the arch of Saint Estehan at ish colony. He is an excellent our neighbours say of us; our se- lawn tennis player, and has on at cond self is always clamouring to Burgos and I saw three ragged, | least two occasions been runner be released from the prison of brown-faced fellows lurking in the up for the championship of Tur everyday mediocrity to which we shadows. It was easy to see that
key.
they were gipsies by their maho Kany complexion, their dashing eyes and brilliantly white teeth.
jare condemned, Ten Greatest News Stories Nobody who possesses a vaga
in "Are you Roms?" I asked When W. J.. Chamberlin was Bond second self should ever put
"Where are the tents?" covering the Spanish-American on his gipay clothes before the sun Romany. War for the "Sun," and cables as set on the last day of term: The two youths started back in were costing 85. a word, Lord draft they should be locked in the lum- Burprise "What? You, one of the ed a telegram beginning with ber-room with seven keys, other Cales? Why, we thought you
wisethey might behave like the ma- were a payllo "please."
'away.
After the introduction it was The telegraph clerk protested. Sic shoes in the fairy tale and lead
necessary to say the password and "Mr. Lord," she said, "that please you a dance over the hills and far
mention the name of other gipsy- will cost 8s." "Let it stand," said
On the eve of the holidays we chiefs, for in that way I might en- Lord. "Economy is no excuse for should escort our conventional first ter the tribe as a guest. discourtesy."
Here Is Lord's list of America's.
self with all pomp and circum- stance to the lumber-room
and
"Ab, res, brothers, I have come ten greatest news stories in or lock him up in the cheat, but tak from another country, but I bring news of Aurelio the cross-esed,
der of merit:
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(1) Election Night of the Baine. Cleveland Campaign (1884). (2) Titanic disaster (1912).
jing good care to pour a bottle of
sparkling wine over him in order, and so you must welcome me." "Don't Trust Youngsters”. to lay his ghost. Then, with light heart and lighter purte, we should Among the gipsies nicknames (3) San Francisco earthquake depart like the good sons in Grim often perform the functions
(1906).
(4) Attempt on Roosevelt's life
(1912).
Fantastic Zionist Proposal
Prague.
m's fairy stories who set out at ran-passworde, and if the stranger dom from their father's house to knows them he may go from conquer the world.
Year,"
of
one
end of Spain to the other and find all the gipsy tents and houses oper 'to him.
I was in
the
of
led with the fact that, while pro- (5) Blowing up of Maine (1898),
Feast Of Rejoicing duction has gone ahead rapidly) (6) Election night of Tilden-
when On one occasion in the past few months, con- Hayes Campaign (1876).
After leaving the arch with my increased very
(7) Death of Horace Greeley wandering along the roads
(1872). little. The essence of the Roose-
Transylvania with a gipsy, he de-o companions we set off for the (8) Beecher Trial (1875). scribed for me how the wandering camp, which was in a lane at the velt effort has been to prevent
back of a neighbouring hill,
As I walked along with the two the building up of new accumula-. (9) Assassination of President tribes set out in the spring.
McKinley (1901).
They have a feast of rejoicing ragged youths I remembered tions of unwanted goods, leading
called the "Kakkava," or "feast of words of warning of an older Ro to renewed stagnation. It is (10) Dayton Flood, (1912).
of many rye, a friend of mine: sought now to create suddenly a Asked shortly before his death the copper pans," on the day main vast new body of demand which to bring his list op to modern St. George, April 23. "For three "Whenever you meet, a tribe in his nation-wide may overtake the increase of times Lord added only one story: days," said he, "every giysy man. gipsies in the deserted country address broadcast to his country-production. The effectiveness of the kidnapping of the Lindbergh woman and child gots daft: they don't trust the younger members, drink, they sing, they play, they for they might pick a quarrel will men is to enlist universal support the new demand is to be safe-baby. He put it near the top.
romp: they drag out their tents in you and tear the clothes off your for the general code of "fair guarded by the very important}
to the plain, they harness their back and leave you stripped in the competition" which he wishes to provision of the code which for
a wound in the bead." see accepted, and worked, tem-bids raising prices above the level
A project to settle a quarter of horses to the carts: they sacrifice ditch with
lambs and they wreathe the wine The best course is to inquire at porarily, by the whole of Amer-of July 1, except to the extent of
a million German Jews in Pales-];
jars in flowers. For the feast of once for the 'puro rom, or old man ican industry. He is undoubted-actual increases of working costs. tine will be considered at the SL. George Is the beginning of the of the tribe, for he is the 'Krailla, ly well-advised in believing that There is to be no reaping of Zionist Congress, to be held at
or King, and his word is law. Onco the most potent impetus that can higher profits from the increased
On that day no man is allowed to you have told him, the password be given to the plan is that of his demand; the operation of that
It is a fantastic proposal. The
curse or quarrel, and woe to the you will be as sate as in church." own still overwhelmingly popular "iron law" is to be suspended, personality. His words, then, lest it strangle the new consump Holy Land could not possibly sup- policeman who tries to set foot. The old man of the tribe is the The within the flowering meadow when grand-father: he leads an enviabie mark the opening of that vastition at birth. Such is the huge port such an immigration. organised propaganda which, it experiment with economic forces recently approved British loan of the tribes are collected around existence, for all the men and is hoped, will engage an irresisti-that is to be carried on until all £2,000,000, indeed, was largely for their be-ribboned carts and traps, women serve him, and he is a die-
After that day the tribes, will ble public opinion in the task the separate industrial codes for the resettlement of those Arabs who of making rejection of the regulating competition and in- have been dispossessed by Jewish
lacatter in all directions, wandering. When we reached the camp wo "blanket" code by any employers creasing demand have been put immigration.
Another proposal is the exten- from place to place, bivouacking in found him lying asleep in the the plain, and when the shadows grass, with his hat down over his a hound,- morally impossible. Acceptance into operation. Popular enthus may be expected under such iasm for "action" is, to all ap- sion of the Jewish settlement into fall the carts will be drawn up be eyes and his "chugurl,"
sup pressure. The question what will pearance, at white-heat. Whether Trans-Jordan. Zionists will
Into my face muttering: "You happen then is related to the the most individualistic people in port this plea by pointing out that neath trees, and fiddles and "cob. beside him. When we woke him le
ing the wild untufored harmony question whether the application the world will learn to hug the certain Arab sheiks, depressed by as will sound in the night, creat scrambled to his feet and peered of this policy does or does not chains of strict industrial re- the economic situation, are said to which inspires the frantic dance of are not coincide with the beginnings of a gulation is among the most vital be willing to sell their land. real turn for the better in the questions business situation. The scheme future. is too hasty an improvisation to be capable by itself alone of turn- ing an unsound balance of supply and demand into a sound one.
It is an immense and unprece→]
of
the immediate
Prince's Lead On The Slum Problem.
Arab
The British view is that Trans- Jordan should be a purely country.
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Facts You Did Not Know.
Its inventor has patented a feat
the Bacchantes.
There is a Serbian proverb which says, "A Tzigan woman suckled me: that is why I have wings."} When the nomandle gipsies enter their frenzy they give wings to us who listen, for they bring all the Eastera romance in their wildness. The Gipsy Spell
tator.
one of the Cale's why. you've a white face!".
(Continued on Page 121.
JEWISH DOCTORS AS REFUGEES
dented proposition that every The Prince of Wales's personal industrial employer in the United attack on the slum problem was States should work to a uniform carried another step forward in his to be attached to an airplane radio Such is the gipay spell which Many Seeking Entry To code of hours and wages; the letter to the Housing Association of antenna to hold it directly back of leads sane, prosaic men off on a hours shorter and the wages the Anglo-Catholic Congress. It a plane, where tests have shown wild chase, as though they were higher than those now prevailing. shows the Prince, not for the first that there is the least interference following the Firebird.
Roaming with the gipsies be That, says Mr. Roosevelt, Is time, as possessing a grasp of the from the ignition system.
fair for all." Fair or not, it is by no means simple practical aspectso obtain the maximum of light gerous to deny, for it aprings from comes a passion which it is dan going to be attempted, despite of a question to which he has given
ty.
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Then gradually I become inured South African Medical Council meals of raw ham and a few sprigs Health. to hardship and I enjoy the simple and the Department of Public
obesity, my shortness of breath some of the Universities, by the
Following on the anti-Jewish' po- the very grave warnings that much fruitful thought. On this at all hours of the day school build the wild, eccentric second self. liey of the German Government have been raised against so occasion he refers to the part which ings have been erected in Germany Whenever I set off on the gipsy there are indications that quite & rough a method of instituting can be played by organised volun. and Belgium with zigzag fronts trail it takes some time before I number of Jewish doctors in Ger the most drastic changes in the tary agencies in the anti-slum can- that receive the sun's rays obliquely can free my wandering personall- many are contemplating starting practices in South Africa. A pum. operation of industries in which paign, by way both of giving a lead and with corridors along the backs.
At first I am attached to my life ber of applications have already there exists, at present, an im-to public opinion and of extending
Designed to draw slivers of metal!
of ease and indulgence. I find the been received from Jewish doctors mense variety of working condi- that financial help which recent tions and regional costs of living. legislation has empowered them to from patients eyes, RD ele roads long. I am conscious of my deprived of a living in Germany by The real Roosevelt policy for such offer. The point is shrewdly made itromagnet installed in a Minneapolis change contemplates the working in the Prince letter that local au hospital is rated at ten horsepower and is powerful enough to drawTMa out in detail, in consultation with thorities, with whom the prime fatima across the floor of a room. employers and workers, of a responsibility rests, will not.com-
of raw garlic washed down by These applications have been un- separate code for each separate monly, be willing to embark on
of der consideration for some
time industry; and many such codes schemes in behalf of which local effect is owing to the active auocía, rough red wine that tastes are in process of elaboration now. feeling has not been aroused. In tion of the Prince with this cause leather. The sense of adventure and present a problem of more But if those codes are to be fair, this sense the value of voluntary cannot be computed; but no one who rises in me: I long to escape out than usual importance for, apart the "blanket" code cannot be in work may be decisive. It may, understands Britain can doubt that into the wild country add sleep in from the consideration that the medical profession in the Union is the same sense fair. That is not moreover, be invaluable in helping the value of it has been and will be caves, to say that it must prove unwork to provide, in dealing with tenguts, enormous. By auch utterances an It is not always easy to find gip numerically well served, the South able; and it is most earnestly to that human personal touch that can his Guildhall speech last May, and sies, for they are the most elusive Africa Medical and Pharmacy Act be hoped that it may not so smooth away so many difficulties in such actions as bis visit to the new people on earth and love to lead the demands that every practitioner. In prove, since a breakdown might the path of all social reform. The dwellings on his own estate in Ken-prying travellers on a wild-goole South Africa shall hold certain fatally impair confidence in the outstanding example of what volun-pington, he places all the influence chase When they pitch their specified qualifications which In- more scientific scheme. The tary effort can accomplish in this of his position and his immense camp it is generally in a secluded clude South African, British and answer, however, to all objection matter is assuredly, the Prince popularity at the service of a move- lane near the town where they am Italian degrees.
The possession of a German de- is that the Government has found himself. The Government's five-ment that needs every ounce of free from inquisitive strangers.
Whenever I have met the pipeles, gree does not entitle a doctor to itself forced to make an imme-year plan of campaign against this driving-power that can be bestowed diate and large addition to na-rooted evil has met with enthusias on If, as the Prince has said, whether in Spain, er in Hungary or practise in South Africa and this. tional purchasing power by the tie public approval, and is moving this generation is the one in which Rumaola, I have left the broad (means that if German doctors from only means available getting rublle authorities to the forming of the disgrace of slamdom ought to streets of the town full of shops Germany wish to emigrate to the more labour to work at higher plans far beyond anything ever be be swept away, his personal part in and nifes and gone to the arched Union, they must first - obtain the
gateway at sundown. Gipsies have necessary certificates Reuter, wages. For it has been confront-fore concelvedHow much of this the work will be to small one.