86 GYPSIES. 



FEBRUARY 27, 1894.— FIFTH REGULAR MEETING. 



Chairman Burgess presided, and one hundred members 

 and guests were present. 



The following paper was read by Mr. Frederick S. 

 Arnold on 



GYPSIES. 



BY FREDERICK S. ARNOLD. 



One warm July evening last summer while the writer 

 of this paper, like a good proportion of the rest of the 

 American people, was spending his vacation at the 

 Chicago World's Fair, he dropped into the Vienna 

 Bakery restaurant in the Midway, weary of sight-seeing 

 and hungry for dinner. The big, brightly lighted room 

 was full of men and women whom the fair had drawn 

 from all the ends of America and Europe, Pretty 

 daughters were grouped at one table round a dignified 

 papa, lunching before going home for the evening. Gay 

 young men at another table were dining before spending 

 the evening at the Syrian dancers and in the Turkish 

 cafes of the Plaisance. Old farmers off the prairies con- 

 trasted with tired- out youths from London or Paris and 

 amongst them all, under the electric lights, the German 

 waiters hurried around from table to table. I ate my 

 dinner and thought about the things I had seen all day 

 and where I should go that evening till it was time to go 

 home, when all of a sudden there burst on ray ear a 

 wild, outlandish strain which I knew — violins and 

 zymbals playing Hungarian czardas. Outside the restau- 

 rant, a few little bushes in flower pots and an arbor with 

 electric lights amongst the vines made a " garden " where 

 tables and chairs were placed and those who liked to eat 

 outdoors, European fashion, might do so. If was thence 

 the music came and I paid my scot and went out to it. 

 A Hungarian band sat in the out-of-door cafe, a zymbal 



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