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Show t Gypty Boy Buried I I! With Three Shirta I St. Iuls. The ancient burial custom of plnelnn provisions In I J the cofflu of the dead so that the corpse may be amply up- I ! piled for the voyage to the be- f ' yond, was revived at Collins- X ! ! vtlle, III., when the twelve-year ; I old eon of John Vonko, a gypsy, was burled there. 1 ; ; In the child's coffin was placed i ' three silver dollar so that he J I! might buy "randy and water- melon, of which he was extreme- I ', ', ly fond," on the Journey, accord- " Ing to the father, and the child I swas clothed In three ahlrta and ' ' . three palra of trousers by the I I ! father's orders, to amply aupply t I! lmr X . . Yonko la a member of gypsy T troupe traveling by automobile. When at Indlanapolla a abort 1 J J time ago hla son, Stt'phen. de- veloped a fever, became critical- x I I ly 111 en route and was pro- nounred dead at the Colliiisvllle i I ! hospital. T |
