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Another Gypsy ‘King’ DepartswORD comes from Meridian. Miss., of the death of “th king of the gypsies. Sn-year-old Emil Mitchel Every so often a story like this appears, reminding: th world that there is no shortage of gypsy kings. Every tow harboring a settlement of these wanderers possesses a king usually self-appointed, and accepted only by those familie of his race whom he can help.Ability to get them on relief is* one quality that tingypsies value in their king. They also turn to him for helfwhen in minor difficulties with the police. Thus the gyps,'kmg is somewhat like the ward captain of a politica machine.In these respects (he gypsies have fallen in with tin custom of the country. In most others they are willing tlt; remain a race apart. It is this failure to assimilate that makes them interesting to Americans.To most people their origin and racial relationships art obscure. To students of the tribe, however, they are nc mystery. It is now generally agreed that the gypsies came originally from North India, expelled about the 1-lth century. Their language is related to Sanskrit, the oldest language ol the Aryan world. I hey have become wanderers over the face of the earth, carrying with them their skill, with tools, their lightfingeredness and their haunting music. Probablv they also gave Europe playing card-. Both cards and gypsies appealed in the west about the same time, and everyone knows the gypsy practice of tolling fortunes bv cards.
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Mansfield News Journal
Mansfield, Ohio, US
Sat, Oct 31, 1942
Page 4
Full Page
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