Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-16

them happiness.
A lady who is wise in old supersti-
tons always put her right shoe on her
right foot first in the morning to give
her good luck for the day.
Very many women are superstitious
regarding strange cats. If cat is
/, found in a new house that house Is
doomed for the i'll luck of its occu-
pants. Actresses are said to be very
| superstit;ous regarding the appearance
OF cat on the stage-the great Sid
dons once fainting when a black cat
walked before her during a perform
ance at Drury Lane Theater. Most
women regard the putting on OF gar
ment the wrong side out as presage
of bad luck. Friday is a black day to
some women. They will not start
upon a journey, begin piece OF work.
have company or do any act OF I'M
portance.
A lady of unusual culture. travel and
all opportunities which position and
wealth can give for intelligence. says
she has horror of crossing between
the carriages of funeral procession,
and tells her cOachman never to drive
acrOss the line of a funeral cOrtege or
before hearse in such a procession.
She considers such acts. by accident or
purpose, a warning of death to herself
or family.
The thirteen superstition has a
wide dominion over women of the
higher classes. A lady recently in
vited fourteen of her lady friends to
luncheon. At the last moment one of
the number sent regret. Thirteen
ladies had sat down at the table. They
rendered themselves uncomfortable by
talking of their unlucky number, and
each insisted that she was not the last
to take her place at the table-for that
woman would be the one to die within
the year.
To break a looking-glass is the pre-
sage of some horrible disaster or
death in the house where it occurs. A
curious incident illustrative of this
ancient superstition has taken place
within the past two years or less. A
lady visiting in an elegant residence
was dressing for dinner rather hastily,
when. in STOPPING for something, she
leaned one hand on an old-fashioned
dressing-table. In a moment she was
thrown to the floor, the large glass
shivering over her head in n thousand
fragments. Stunned and bleeding she
lay prone and unconscious till gentle
man of the household, Mortified by the
unusual noise, burst in the door. Her
injuries were very slight, but when
she went down to dinner she found her
hostess agonized at the circumstance,
as she said: There will be death
in this house in one year, and l shall
be the one called
Perhaps" replied the visitor,
"either or some relative Of mine will
die within the year"
The hostess died very suddenly with
| heart disease six months later, and the
| visitor heard of the death of her only
brother almost Immediately after the
incident. DeConstant, the favorite
valet of Bonaparte. tells of his master
| being so agonized while in Italy over
breaking mirror that he sent an
especial envoy to Paris to learn if his
beloved Josephine was alive and in
safety. Josephine's Ill luck, it is said.
began very soon after this. She was
as superstitious rs her famous second
| cOnsOrt.
Tingling of the ears is sure sign
somebody is gossiping about you: burn
ing of the cheeks that some one is
thinking OF you, and if Your nose
itches you are to see stranger. Vel
low spots on the nails betoken neal
approach of death; white spots pre-.
dict gifts. To cut the nails Friday OIL
Sunday is awfully unlucky. Then
there is the winding sheet in the
candle. but if there is a spark in the
wick it betokens letter of good news.
To some people odd numbers are
lucky; to others. even numbers.
| NVElch \tNu lICiis tOOJ htSC d
curious faith in numbers. One woman
says: If two incidents of kind hap
pen to me know the third will Occu,
certainly" She has been married
twice. She hates men. but says: g My
fate in three will come. shall marry
again in spite OF myself
| There are pretty superstitiOns ant
evil ones as well in connection with
birds and bees and spiders. 1t is in
lucky to GO under ladder. OF al
things wrath" is most to bt
dreadedLin short. a ghost of some
one YOU have known. or of yourself
Robert Dale Owen, in his Footprint!
on the Boundary of Another World,
says that the Holland family, of En-
gland. always see their own resem
blance as a warning of death. One o
, the fairest ladies of this noble famil,
saw a most complete and perfect like
ness of herself coming toward her il
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