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SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF ALL NATIONS
#20 - GYPSY
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1893
Lithographer: Kaufmann & Strauss
  
| "COPYRIGHT" Text Variations |
| There are two varieties (that I know of) in the
"COPYRIGHT" text which appears on this card, as shown below. In both cases, the text
appears in the lower right corner of the card. |
Text reads: "PAINTING COPYRIGHTED 1893 ARBUCKLE BROS."
and is 27mm long. (This is the variety shown on the
full-size card, above). |
Text reads: "PAINTING COPYRIGHTED 1893 ARBUCKLE BROS."
and is 30mm long. |
| (For an overview
of the copyright variations in Sports & Pastimes, click
here.) |
| Reverse - Text |
Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
Right section: |
| GYPSY. |
| THE
Gypsies have from time immemorial
been a people without a country.
For them there have never been
rooftrees and homes. They wander
from place to place, and pitch
their tents, and lo, when one is
beginning to be accustomed to
their presence, they are gone
again. By what means they live is
a mystery, but it is shrewdly
suspected that petty thievery is
their main support. They are a
wild, uncouth rabble, but be it
said in their favor, they do not
seek much intercourse with other
races. Among themselves they are
quite jolly. |
| There
is not an old Gypsy woman who
cannot read your future if but
you cross her palm with gold.
Your good fortune will invariable
be in proportion to how richly
you have tipped her. She divines
by the aid of cards, or by
palmistry and numerous other
ways. |
| Oftentimes
when the day is over, by the
light of the fitful campfires,
the Gypsy men and women indulge
in a wild and weird dance. They
are all born musicians of a crude
kind, and the lute, mandolin or
guitar furnish them with melody. |
| The
courtship of the Gypsies is rude
and primitive generally. Where
there are rivals for the maiden's
favor often a race is arranged.
She flies from her suitors, they
follow, and he is successful who
first reaches her and wrests a
kiss from her lips. |
| The
Gypsy men are inveterate
card-players and petty gamblers. |
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NOTE: To see non-Arbuckle usage of this
supposedly copyrighted Arbuckle illustration,
click  here.
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