The Springdale news., 1888-07-27

women regard the putting on of a gar ment the wrong side out as presage Of bad luck. Friday is black day to some women. They will not start upon journey, begin a piece of work, hae company or do any act of i'm poftanee
 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 funeral cortege or before hearse in such procession. She considers such acts, by accident or purpose, warning of death to herself or family
 The thirteen" superstition has q wide dominion over women of the higher classes. A lady recently in Vlted fourteen of her lady friends to luncheon. At the last moment one of the number sent a 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 tablc-for that woman would be the one to die within the year.
 To break 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 stooping for something. she leaned one hand on an old-fashioned dressing-table. In moment she was thrown to the floor, the large glass shivering over her head in a 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: "Therc will be d 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. BeGonstant. the favorite valet of Bonaparte, tells of his master being so agonized while in Italy over breaking d mirror that he sent an especial envoy to Paris to learn if his beloved Josephine was alive and in safety. Josephinc's Ill luck. it Is said. began very soon after this. She was IS supersfitious as her famous second eonsoft.
 Tingling Of the ears is a sure sign somebody is gossiping about you, burn ing of the cheeks that some one is thinking of you, and if your nose itehes you are to see stranger. Tel low spots on the nails betoken near approach of death; white spots pre-. diet gifts. fo cut the nails Friday or Sunday is awfully unlucky. Then there is the winding sheet in the candle, but if there is spark in the wick it betokens letter of good news To some people odd numbers are lucky; to others, even numbers
 Women (and men, tool have curious faith in numbers, One woman says: :, If two ineide nts of kind hap pen to me know the third will occur certainly. She has been married twice. She hates men, but says; " My fate in three will come. l shall marry again in spite of myself '
 There are pretty supcrstitions and evil ones as well in connection with birds and bees and spiders. It is un- mcky to go under ladder. or all things "wraith is most to be dreaded in short, ghost of some one you have known, or of yourself. Robert Dale Owen, in his " Footprints on the Boundary Of Another World" says that the Holland family, of En- gland. always see their own resem- hlanee as a warning of death. One of the fairest ladies of this noble family saw q most complete and perfect like ness of herself coming toward her in the garden. She understood this pre- monition, and calmly prepared for her exit from this mundane sphere, A group of ladies gathered in country house during the gloaming told ghost stories recently until they were afraid to retire. The crowning experience was that one of the number, while in a curious mental and physical condi- tion. had heheld herself dead and her husband weeping beside her. As the pathetic or the serious is first cousin to the comic, so itwas relief to this gath ering to hear the narrator, buxom, healthy woman, fair, fat and forty V say: But you see here I am, and the mourner has been mourned.
 Two lovely little girls were recently heard by a visitor in their mothers house saying heir evening prayer for protection and for good luck as follows:
 ' Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
 God bless the bed that lie on.
 If any thing appear to me
 Sweet Christ arise and comfort me.
 Four corners to this bed
 Six angels round me spread;
 Two to pray, two to wake,
 Two to guard me till daybreak;
 And blessed angels guard and keep
 Safe from danger while sleep"
 This, the mother said, ''is prayer of inheritance. Our family have always been taught it by the mothers and we have been most fortunate family"