In Quaint, Curious Croatia 



ON THE MARKET: POLA, CROATIA 



advised to eat so many pounds a day of 

 this sort of grape or perhaps of that and 

 of the other. 



Another feature of life here are the 

 roads and the gipsies. What would 

 Croatia be without these wanderers of 

 the road sides? Long, steepling Lom- 

 bardy poplars hedge in the thorough- 

 fares, and one looks for miles down a 

 tunnel of green. 



Recently the government has sold the 

 trees to the gipsies at something like two 

 to three dollars apiece. They cut them 

 for the timber. Again and again, on the 

 roads, one meets the gipsies busy felling 



the trees or mayhap resting from their 

 labors. 



Both men and women braid the hair 

 in little braidings, and as the raven locks- 

 fall on the coat it is hard to tell the sexes 

 apart from behind. These are not the 

 musical gipsies, but they are carpenters, 

 smiths, and horse traders. Here today,, 

 yonder tomorrow, the Ishmael of today - 

 is the gipsy. But he is but one of many 

 sidelights of life here in Croatia. It is- 

 interesting, this Crown land, turbulent 

 though it may be. One wonders that to* 

 the tourist it remains still a well-nigh 

 undiscovered country. 



