The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-03
LOVE SECRETS.


Some OF the superstitions Concerning
Britain.
A girl can s.scarcely do a worse thing
than boil dish-clout in her crock. !"
She will be sure, in consequences, to lose
all her lovers, or, in Scotch phrase,
s.boil all her lads AVA" ''and in Dur
ham tits believed that if you put milk
in youf tea before sugar. you lose your
sweetheart" We may add that unless
girl fasts on St. GATHERINGS Day (No-
yember 25) she will never have good
husband. Nothing can be luckier for
either bachelor or girl than to be placed
inadvertently at some social gathering
between a man and his wife. The per-
son so seated will be married before the
year is out.
Song, play and sonnet have diffused
far and wide the custom of blowing OFT
the petals of a flower, saying the while.
He loves me-loyes me not" When
this important business has been settled
in the affirmative hint may be useful
for the lover going counting. If he
meets hare, he must at once turn back.
Nothing can well be more unlucky.
Witches are fond of that shape, and he
will certainly be crossed in love. Ex-
perts say that after the next meal has
been eaten the evil influence is expend-
ed, and the lover can again HE forth in
safety. In making presents to each
other the happy pair must remember
on no account to give each other knife
or pair of scissors. Such a present eff
fectually cuts love asunder. Take care,
| too, not to fall in love with one the
| initial of whose surname is the same as
yours. 1t is quite certain that the
union of such can not be happy. This
love secret has been reduced into rhyme
for the benefit of treacherous memo
ries:
To change the name and not the letter
Is change for the worse, and not for the bet
ter.
This love-lore belongs to the Northern
mythology, else the Romans would new
er have used that universal formula,
''Ubi tn Caius ego Gaia"
These directions and cautions must
surely have brought our pair of happy
lovers to the wedding-day. Even vet
they are not safe from malign iptlu-
cnces, but folklore does not forget
their welfare. If the bride has been
courted BY other sweethearts than the
one she has now definitely chosen,
there is fear lie It the discarded suitOrs
should entertain unkindly feelings
toward her. To obviate all unpleasant
consequences from this, the bride must
wear a sixpence in her left shoe until
she is kirked," say the Scotch. And,
on her return home, if q horse stands
looking ut her through a gateway, or
even fingers along the road leading to
her new home. it is very bad omen
for her future happiness
When once the marriage-knot is lied,
it is 50 indissoluble that folklore for
most part leaves the young couple
one 1t is imperative, however, that
the wife should never take off her
weddingring. To do so is to open o
door to immediate calamities. and a
window at the same time through
which live may fly. Should the hus-
band net find that peace and quietness
which he has right to expect in
matrimony, but discover. unfortunate
". that he has married scold or Il
shrew, he must make the best OF the
case.
Yet folklore has still a simple remedy
which will alleviate his sorrow Any
night he VIII. he may taste fasting a
root of radish, say our old Saxon fore
fathers. and next day he will be proof
against w1man's chatter. By grow
ing large bed of radishes, and sup
ping off them regularly. it is thus pos
sible that he might exhaust, after
time, the vsrbosity of his spouse, but
we are bound to add that we have
never heard of such an easy cure being
effected. The ducking-stool was found
more to- the purpose in past days.
BeigraUia..