The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-21

H salt-cellar, jump up and throw & pinch of the salt over her left shoul- der with her right hand and then taste a pinch to prevent any i'll consequences from spilling the salt?
 The girls perturbation at this acci- dent may be accounted for in these lines:
 'Tis thought love decayed
 When the negligent maid
 Let the salt-cellar tumble before her. A great many people are very care- full not to cross their knives and forks at the table, and not few think it unlucky to find knife, and knife as present is absolutely suicidal, as it is sure to cut all love in two.
 There is hardly mother or nursery maid that does not teach child to get out of the right side of the bed in the morning, putting the right foot down first, and when up to put on the right stocking and shoe first, and if the stocking should chance to be put on wrong side out, it must be worn so all day, as it will bring good luck. There is no expression more commonly used to fretful child than "Yo ou surely got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning."
 To sneeze while putting on the shoes is very unlucky. Indeed, to sneeze at all is considered an i'll omen hence the Russian custom of saying, "God bless you"
 The bursting of shoestring or a garter is misfortune which many girls guard carefully against.
 The cdstom of throwing old shoes after one for good luck is one univer- sally followed. Scarcely bride has ever left the door of her fathers home without shower of old shoes follow ing her. Tennyson says:
 And where'er they move
 Good luck shall throw her old shoe after. Many girls might whistle as well as boys, but for the superstition couched in the lines,
 whistling girl and growing hen
 Can scarcely come to good end, prevents many of them from even trying.
 The feathers of the peacock are con. sidered unlucky.
 It is considered unlucky to break 6 mirror. Such an accident will give the average girl fit of mysteries, nc matter how very strong she may be il other ways.
 If a picture falls from its frame it i. considered very unlucky, and any gir will seek for stone lost from ring until she is almost blind, not so much for the value of the stone as for fear o i'll luck sure to follow.
 There is a young lady who is SC superstitious that if she lets letter fall after writing it she will burn il rather than send it of. She also con- siders it the worst kind of luck to dry letter before the fire.
 "Sing before breakfast, and you'll cry before supper" is a well-worr maxim, and to sing during meals in. sures disappointment.
 A we'll known lady shuffies sever cards before undertaking any specia work. If four black cards turn ur she abandons the work.
 No girl who has any regard what. CNOA TUT ACI WCllAIc VIII p6T6 ucl fingers on Friday or Sunday, and ther, are not many of them that do not con suit the white spots on their nails tt decipher the probabilities in store fol them. Beginning at the thumb, the, so read:
 Friends, foes, gifts, beaux,
 Long journey she goes.
 The nail upon which the white spo appears determines what she may lool for.
 One of the best housekeepers in thi city will not allow the spider webs t be disturbed in the house. By tn ancients they were called money spin ners. There is an old couplet whicl says: If
 A spider weaving his net in some high place. Comes dropping down before your face, You may look for money In some unexpecte
 place.
 Of superstitions concerning court ship and marriage there are dozenl which any girl can tell you.
 There's not one of them hut shud ders at upsetting .a chair, or filling o stumbling in going up-stsirs, as ther is no probability then of . weddin within year.
 If three unmarried ladies having th