Show I 1 N 1 OF I 1 STRANGE OP THE A clam ca of who X make 0 I 1 national Kat ional nome home and ad who cis ga 1 eastly RA beart an AA attempts t apts t ta C civilize ehwa fashions fash lons na n a fondness of hungarian orchestras ch 61 estras the world over and a recent society scandal in which an american girl was implicated have drawn the attention of two continents to those curious carious people called Tzi ganes in hungary bohemian Bohem ians in france and gypsies tn in england and the united states says sats the new york times hungary is the home of the Tzi ganes in so far as they have any home in all other european countries they were wem persecuted for centuries as emissaries of the evil one and enemies of christianity but hungary took pity on them and treated the wanderers like lost children it was tn the fifteenth century that they first made their appearance there king sigis wand received them hospitably and recommended to the charity and pity of the public these poor wandering people without a home and hounded by every one there are now about of these Tzi Tri ganes in hungary they may be divided into three classes those who so go bareheaded and baraf barefooted booted the wandering gypsies those who wear headgear and shoes on an sundays the semi nomads and those who always wear hats bats and shoes and who hava hav to a great extent abandoned the nomadic lives of their ancestors these latter are the most civilized and are generally musicians who excel in the playing of hungarian tunes W when aen the tzi ganes arrived in hungary they were not trained musically but they soon goon appropriated magyar music and out of it have made a crude and weird art of their own their favorite In instrument is the bas alja 11 as they term the violin some play the harp but ut they have a marked aversion for the piano i tor bor the reason that it cannot be easily moved about in hungary no tote fote or festival takes place without a orchestra at election times a band always elways heads the electoral pro sessions cessions ces and no wedding is considered complete without their music tor for the dance the Tzi ganes games have become natural musicians playing from inspiration and generally being unable to read music liszt who made a study of the Tzi ganes says that music is to them a sublime language a mystic doug which they itten make use of instead of conversation and that they have in fact invented a music of their own one of the favorite abodes of these strange people is near the frontier of croatia it is there that the typical bohemians Bohem ians are seen at their best their camps are always set up at some distance from the nearest town or village often in close proximity to nome forest the huts buts for they are nothing more consist of a single room unless the owner is extremely well to do and generally devoid of furniture the Tzi ganes eat and sleep on the bare boards at all times of the day there is a smoldering are in the hut but over which hangs a sandstone pot for the has no fixed hour tor for his meals but eats whenever he feels hungry the ordinary bill of tare fare consists of potatoes pot milk and lard on festive occa ca sio is such tit bits are indulged in as hedgehogs foxes and squirrels cats are considered by the Tzi ganes a princely diet dogs are trained to hunt hedgehogs and foxes they have a peculiar manner of cooking foxes tey are placed in running water for a couple of days and then cooked under hot coals in a hole in the ground the Tzi ganes have a partiality for the flesh of dead animals and whenever a farm or or a stable takes fire they rush to the scene in the hope of finding the carcass of or some dead animal like certain oriental races they use their fingers in conveying food to their mouths women as a rule go about half naked the young girls wearing n nothing but a small apron e excepting when they go to the neighboring town the men wear but little clothing and until the time of their marriage at between 12 and 15 years of age they go about almost naked after marriage however they attire themselves in the baudy ady hungarian national costume of they are very proud castoff past cast off garments of some magyar nobleman they have a great weakness for and when they are able to obtain a bright red coat their satisfaction is complete the Tzi ganes have horror of work or restraint of any kind even those who have a fixed axed residence like to roam about when they feel so inclined so firm is this wandering instinct with them that they have no word in their language to signify remain most of the trades they adopt are am suitable tor for nomadic life they are either horse dealers blacksmiths sheep shear era em or and above all beggars it Is quite impossible to take a country drive through some provinces of hungary without coming across a band of Tzi ganes some one of whom will surely follow carriage castia go tor for a half hour or more mom until behas received a coin the lianes Tzi Tz ganes have given themselves the nick nickname ame of doormen po joor ormen men and the habit of begging Is eo eb thoroughly rooted in them thein that evert even well to do members of their rat race wb whom 0 one occasional aly meets in budapest driving pure pare blood 1 ea horses and wearing eastly costly jewels resist the temptation of asking tea for money I 1 Z S many L my attempts have bave 1 been oen 1 made to restrain res 61 wi aga N z d 5 V I 1 densities of the telga Tzi ganes hiis gheem diw rr joseph ta once iii I 1 1 I s I 1 V A j TK y Bs r S s 4 t 7 i ys I 1 10 R e I 1 mo 1 rr aw tow abam to have a fixed residence and allotted them land distributed agricultural implements ainz them and ordered them to cultivate their land but instead of to taking kit g up their residences residence is in the comfortable houses they had bad been presented with the Tzi ganes turned theAo into stables tor for their horses and cows and set up tents near by tor for their own use um to prevent the corn siren given them for far seed from sproUt sprouting luS they boiled it but the emperor was abt discouraged he abolished the tzi gane language as he had bad already done away with the magyar language did away with the very name of Tzi gane and finally took their thedr children from them to be educated by german and hungarian farmers who were to bring I 1 them up according to a strict code of discipline but the little Tzi ganes grew up with all the instincts of their race and at al the first opportunity they escaped and rejoined their parents |