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THE CHINA MAIL.

-WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

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The Woman's Page

Gypsies Changing Modes Of Life

But Still Retain Old Picturesque Customs

That gypsies are modernizing, ever we happen to be. We take their outward life-by using motor our dead back to their fathers, no caravans, for Instance without matter how far that is. One gyp changing any of their customs or sy died In America who had mar- ideas, is the conclusion reached by ried out of the tribe. It wasn't a writer in "The London Morning a happy marriage; she wanted to Post" after interviewing a gypsy live in-between walls; but we took girl who, although she had travelled her back to her father's. 'Balmed, over half the worldAmerica, she had, to be, and in three coffins, Egypt, Italy, Ireland, Wales and rind the coffins underneath the ca-l England, and had even spent a few ravan. It took her seven months days in Paris-could neither rand to get home, but she lies beside nor write. Pye

her own!

"Gypsies are funny people," the girl admitted, and then, under gen-| their existence. tle prompting, went on to describe

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Never Are. Paupers "And gypsles never allow one of themselves to lie in pauper ground or be buried by the parish. If they speak before they go, we take them where they want to be laid. If not, we do as we think best, but there we needn't walk out: just all the tribe will contribute to give speak and that's all: but we always them proper burial. They gener have to take a girl sister orally buy ground they own. mother, or maybe a friend,, a gypsy "Everything we cat we pay for 'friend, of course, if we go to a ple;

ture house.

4.

"We must never go to a dance in any place we happen to be in; gyps sies have their own dances for themselves. Of course, if village folk like to come in and look on. 'we wouldn't turn them out, buti we mustn't ask them to dance with

us.

"

Harsh Tribal Code.

"If a girl gets into trouble, with a man before marriage, or if a gyp- sy girl marries a man who is not a gypsy, or anything like that, she is turned out of the tribe; no one will speak to her again as long as she lives..

"But if a gypsy girl lives regular. with a gypsy man, even if they are uot married, she can have as many children as she likes, and its all right; he stays with her. Gypsies don't desert their women or their

MENU SUGGESTIONS FOR TO-MORROW.

TIFFIN

Fish Salad (Cold)

"Beef Collopa. Macedoine Turnips and Carrots Apple Amber Pudding DINNER

VEGETABLE DINNERS} ARE ATTRACTIVE.

Contrast Of Colours An Aid To Appetites...

REVIVE THE SPIRITS.

Here la a suggestion for your next vegetable dinner: Place the Spinach mound and Harvard beets in the centre of a large platter. At opposite ands of the platter place buttered carrots sliced cross- wise to make rings. On opposite sides of the platter place French- fried potatoes with the strips. parallel to the edge of the platter: Between the carrots and, the pota- toes-at the four corners, as it were-place strips of crisply, cook- ed bacon at right angles to the po tatoes. Additional servings of the vegetables may be brought to the. table if necessary. With the vaget- able platter serve hot rolls or bread, a beverage and dessert.

Gay Food Picture Revives Drooping Spirits.

In preparing these platters, strong colour contrasts are not ob- jectionable. A gay food picture, of red, green and yellow is excellent to revive drooping spirits on a gloomy Oxtail Soup

day and quite worth all the effort Braised Ham with Sweet Corn

involved. Cook cauliflower whole Baked Potatoes in Jackets.

In boiling, salted water. Drain, re- Ice Cream au Canton Ginger

move all green leaves, and place it Sautied kidneys" is a very simple in the centre of a platter or chop tin dish, consisting of kidney plate. Sprinkle grated cheese over sliced and sautied in butter with the cauliflower and place it onion, adding enough Worcester in а slow .oven until the Sauce to make a little gravy. They cheese has just melted. Remove should be piled on squares of fresh it from the

oven, and sprin-

ly made and buttered toast. See kie paprika over the cheese. Ar- that toast croutons are soft

not range

a green-and-red, border leathery squares that a knife can around the cauliflower by alternat hardly penetrate:

fing whole based tomatoes and stuff- Sweet corn makes an excellented green peppers. Any favourite accompaniment to braised ham stuffing may be used for the pep- The cook knows how to get the pers-bread crumbs with mest, grains off the cob.

rice with minced ham, or chicken with corn.

Shrimps are still plentiful and a fish salad is always enhanced in both taste and appearance by be ing, plentifully decorated with shrimps.

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Ortall Soup

Joint an oxtail. Fry it with diced onions, carrots and turnips (one each); add 2 quarts of

children. Oh, no But they like as we go. Of course, the men are best to be married and all the tribe good poachers. I dare say you know water and some herbs, bring to the comes for miles to a gypsy wedding. that; they won't steal, not ever, but boil, akim well, simmer from 3 But a wedding is nothing to a fun- they poach whatever they can. And to 4 hours and strain it. Cook 2 éral.

we live on the best food; no chilled oz of butter and 2 oz. of four to-

"We do not bury our dead wher-meat, no foreign food, nothing out of tins, and no sauces or oddments, no trifles and such things; nothing but the best food, and only one thing for a meal.

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Boys Are Guards. "And you know we have to have two caravans where there are chil- The children mustn't sleep dren. with the grown-ups, In these days It isn't safe for girls to sleep alone. Strange men, not of our kind, have been known to break in at night, so there must always be a boy, a brother, in the girls' caravan. He sleeps opposite to them.and with| a curtain drawn between. If we'

| know of any boy or girl left alone,

we take them in,

Modern, gypsies are a lot dif ferent to the old ones. We don't have all the gold and copper and brass things they did. We have afiver for the table; that's modern, but for cooking we use just ordinary things nowadays. And, of course, you know gypsies are very partlcu- lar about washing. For instance, we mustn't wash a dish-cloth in the

gether, carefully browning the flour; add the liquid and boll. Put back some of the best pieces of the tail, season well, add a wineglasz' (This makes of port and serve. (a good"cola soup). ·

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetér spellings, such as harbor, plow,and altho.)

10

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38 139

146

6.

718 19

12

13

16

17

24

29

43

48

53

54

155

56

58

"HORIZONTAL 1-Besides 4-Myth

7-Farm animal 10-Worship 12-An equal 14-Castle

15-Lick up 17-Lacerated 18-The (F) 18-Bird of

prey

21-Musical note th

22-Pronoun

23-Old timas (Pool)

26-Father 25-A wading bird related to the heron 24-Board

81-Branch 12-Outht

834A fruit c

16-Observed e

88-Preposition

40-Expire

41-8illor (Cello)

42-Prebzsition

| HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | VERTICAL (Cont.)

43-Italian riva?

16–Chart

45-Chelaar

47-Egyptian aun-god

48-Combining form.

180

51-Smaller number 63-Space for combat 55-Gaspe

|56-Absence of peace

| 67-Bod. linen

58-Golf/term

VERTICAL

An ox of Tibet Z-A magistrate of "ancient Rome

4-iron (Chem. ym.) WEB-Boast

6-Printare measure 7-Particle

19-High priest (Blb.) 20-Make a mistake 22-One of the lowest

class of ancient

Sparta 23-Declined.

26-Anxious 27-Adora with dress 28-Mischievous child

|38-At the back

36-Walk |87-Organ:

organ of hearing....... 35-Musical, drames

44River

47-Lease

48-Gut's foot

| 49-Aband

affmany

51-Muslaki nota.

"B/Written charactärs · [52-Point of compass

9-Pronoun

||[11–Musdül natu

[13-Near

|15-Boys

(abbr)

[54-Because

55-Liquid makeupo

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The solution of the above with a news arose-word pas

Bringing Up Father.

PANASCET YOU WANT ME TO TAKE A. NOTIZ, OVER TO MISS: LOTTA VÕTES? SURE,JIGOS! FLL BEAT

DOWN TO YOUR

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WHAT IN THE WORLD

DO YOU WANT TO SEND (JEROES WITH ANKSTE

FORTHES TOURETTOY TO GO ANYWHERE.

HES Á SIGHT

THAT'S JUST

MY IDEA ITLL.

· MAKE "MİSS LOTTA VOTES LOOK LIKE

İSHE ONLY HAS

LA BAD CROWD

WENE GOT TO DO

IN OUR POWER TO DEFEAT HER“

ELECTION. GEEF JERK? 1STARIN

A LONG TIME TO ŽMOWE UBI

F.VOTERS

NOTE, FØR KISS LOTTA VOTES?

HIS FACE WASHED?

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