Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-08-09

found in new house that house Is
doomed for the ill luck OF its occu-
pants. Actresses are said to be very
superstitious regarding the appearance
of cat on the stage-the great Sid
dons once fainting when black cat
walked before her during 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 black day to
some women. They will not start
upon 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 a funeral procession,
and tells her coachman never to drive
across the line of funeral cortege or
before hearse in such a procession.
She considers such acts, by accident or
purpose, 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 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 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 a thousand
fragments. Stunned and bleeding she
lay prone and unconscious till agentle-
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 favOritt
valet of Bonaparte, tells of his master
being so agonized while in Italy ovel
breaking mirror that he sent al
especial envoy to Paris to learn if hi
beloved Josephine was alive and il
safety. Josephine's Ill luck, it is said
began very soon after this. She wa
as superstitious rs her famous secon,
consort.
Tingling of the ears is sure sigl
somebody is gossiping about you; burn
ing of tho checks that some one i
thinking of you, and If your nos
itches you are to see a stranger. Vel
low spots on the nails betoken a nea
approach of death; white spots pre-
dict gifts. To cut the nails Friday o
Sunday is awfully unlucky. The
there is the winding sheet in tn
candle, but If there is a spark in tn
wick it betokens letter OF good news
To some people odd numbers ar
lucky; to others, even numbers.
Women (and men, too) have
curious faith in numbers, One woma
says: IF two inciden ts of kind haY
pen to me | know the third will occu
certainly" She has been marie
twice. She hates men, but says: IN
fate in three will come. | shall MARI
, again in spite of myself"
/ There are pretty superstitions an
: evil ones as well in connection wit
birds and bees and spiders. 1t is III
lucky to go under a ladder. OF a
: things a wrath" is most to /
| dreaded-in short, a ghost of som
J one you have known, or of yoursel
. Robert Dale Owen, in his Footprint
S on the Boundary of Another World,
a says that the Holland family, of e.
t gland, always see their own resen
: blance as a warning of death. One
S the fairest ladies of this noble fami
0 saw most complete and perfect lik
: ness of herself coming toward her
0 the garden. She understood this pr
}. monition, and calmly prepared for h,
= exit from this mundane sphere.
5 group of ladies gathered in COUNT
g house during the cleaning told gho
S stories recently until they were ARA
+ to retire. The browning experien,
S was that one OF the number, while
g a curious mental and physical cond
o ton, had beheld herself dead and h,
J: husband weeping beside her. As Il
e pathetic or the serious is first cousin
5 the comic, so twas a relief to this gat
J. ering to hear the narrator, buxor
Il healthy woman, fair, fat and forty
Il say: "But you see here l am, and Il
y mourner has been mourned."
Two lovely little girls were recent
+ heard by a visitor in their motheI
1t house saying their evening prayer f
d protection and for good luck as follow
IS Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
!, God bless the bed that lie on.
~ II any thing appear to me
e. Sweet Christ arise and comfort me.