St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04
GIRLS FUNNY IDEAS.
Trifling Events That Mean Great Deal
to Them.
LUCK AND SOMETHING BLUE.
Wedding Superstitions and Other Pc.
culiar Notions in Which Girls
Indulge.
See pin and pick it up.
Through all the day you'll have good lnck;


Bad luck you'll have through all the day,
A nursery superstition, you say, and
rhyme not worthy of the nursery even.
Truly, so it is. Yet also it is a super
stition that is carried beyond the
nursery. Many society girl holds to
it as firmly as any child. Where
fore? That is hard to say. Girls are
naturally superstitious, and young
ladies' boarding school is a regular
breeding place of superstition. Those
Of childhood are there added to, and
when the young lady makes her debut in
society she has large assortment, says
the Chicago Herald.
This is no fairly tale: it is the truth.
| They do not parade their superstitiona
| in public, because they would be
| laughed at, but they have them just the
| same. They are not cOnfided to fathers
| or brothers ordinarily, and yet who has
not heard of the brides superstition con-
tanned in the following lame rhyme:
Something old and something new,
| Something borrowed and something blue.
AS fight of poesy it is not worthy OF
much notice, but as superstition 1t re-
ceives great deal of attention. Did
you consider it idle talk when you
heard it? If you did you were sadly
mistaken. During the last season
there were probably not three society
brides, if the term be allow
gard the rhyme. Obedience to its die
tates is supposed to insure a happy
married life, and so strongly IS the
feminine mind imbued with it that
| should bride be inclined to disregard
it the bridesmaids would openly revolt.
OF course the something blue" cannot
well be worn in sight, a bride being
dressed in white, and so it is usually a
garter. The something old'' is gener-
ally piece of old lace, while 'Some-
thing borrowed" can be ribbon or any
little thing; the value cuts no figure.
There is good deal that is new about
every brides attire, so no trouble IS
experienced.
Then follow the other superstitions of
the wedding. The ring in the brides
cake every one knows about; also the
throwing of the brides bouquet. The
latter is. a very pretty custom, and is
ever attended by great deal of excite
ment and jollity. The superstition of
| the BRIDES garter, perhaps, is not so
well known to the masculine sex. The
lamentations and ceremonies always
take place in the SecluSion of the brides
apartment just before she leaves the
house, and the eye of man is never per-
mitted to gaze upon the performance,
| When the bride goes to her room
| to exchange her bridal dress for
a travelling gown the bridesmaids ac-
| company her; even unObserving man
must have noticed that. The
| bride is then blindfolded and the
| bridesmaids circle around her until she
loses track of the position of each, when
| she hands the garter to one of them.
This garter, by the way, should be yell
| low, to make the result more certain.
| But there is one inconsistent feature
about all this-one problem that
no one but a woman can solve. The
bridemaid who gets the ring when the
cake is. cut is to be the first one mar
ried. The bridemaid who catches the
brides bouquet when first thrown is also
to be first married, and so is the one
who gets the brides garter. How can
three be married first? That is the
problem.
Bah, 1t is just pretty custom, you
say: no one believes in it.
''How is that?' was asked of a young
lady
"Indeed they do believe in these
| SuperstitionS to great extent" she re-
piled. 1.-THE old and new one is SO
firmly believed in that young ladies be-
lieve it almost imperative for brides to
| observe it. And the others? Well,
they have a sort of half faith in them
| They may laugh at them a little, but
| they are awfully anxious to get the
articles just the same. The pin? Oh,
l know any number of girls
who would not dare to pass one
by. Actually. if they did it would
worry them all day. Good, sensible
| girls they are, too, whom you would
never suspect of anything of that sort.
| Why, | suppose you are entirely igno-
! rant of the fact that lots of the girls to be
seen at the balls and parties every night
actually wear yellow carriers on their
left legs all the year around because it
| is the sign of an early marriage. This
is a superstition brought from boarding
school, where the custom is to exchange
| carriers every Halloween"
do you mean that?''
''Indeed do. 1t is one OF the many
superstitions observed in good faith.
| Did YOU know that it was sign of bad
| luck to put your shoes or slippers on
| the table? No? Well, that also eman-
| ateS from boarding school. l nearly
| frightened my roommate into fit by
| doing it once thoughtlessly. Per-
haps you didn't know that it was
a sign of good luck to have a
dog follow you. 1t is, though, and,
moreover, if it is black dog itindicates
dark husband, and if it is yellow dog
| it indicates blonde one. Then if you
| hang wishbOne over the door the first
man who passes under is to be your hus-
band did it once, and the plumber
came in about two minutes later. That
destroyed my faith in that, You'll al
ways notice, though that if you find a
hairpin you'll get letter shortly after
ward.'