The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-08-17
RULED BY SUPERSTITION.
New York Sun.

New York
 Any day and any place you people yield ing to superstitions Notice people walking to- gether. See couple of girls going along, carefully preventing any one from passing between them or if one passes round a lamp post or hitching post, how the other will follow on the same side. Dig nifed old men and women will dodge back and follow their companions round hurried pedestrian who tries to saves steps by passing between them, or round some inanimate obstruction, causing any number of amusing encounters. They believe they will have quarrel or meet with disappointment if they let any thing come between them.
 Others couldn't be hired to meet any one on the stairs, going up down, for fear they will be dis appointed. Housewives have innumerabe signs by which they can foretel events If the dishcloth is dropped there will be a visitor. If a knife is dropped, a woman is coming fork, a man is com- ing; spoon, fool. If two knives or forks or spoons put at place by mistake, while setting the table, there is going to be a wedding. If you spill salt you will have quarrel this can be pre- vented by burning & pinch of the spilled salt or throwing some over your left shoulder. If a roos- ter crows st you at a door, he is playing the clairvoyant and telling you you will have 8 sur prising bit of news or an unex pected visitor. So aso if you drop pair of scissors, and they stick in the floor, you will have unexpected visitor. Ii needle sticks in the oor you will get letter If you see pin with the head to you you must surely pick it up, for you will have good luck but avoid, if possible, seeing pins with the point toward you, for if you pick them up you will have sharp luck or bad luck. You must pick them up, however if you see them, for the old lines say
 See pin and pick tup.
 All that day your have good luck;
 You1f have bad luck ail that day.
 If froth or little bubbles rise to the top of cup of tea or cofe and you lucky enough to catch them in spoon and swallow them you will get money, the amount varying with the quantity of bubbles. This doesn't apply to Coney Island lager. If you find any little sticks the stems of ea-leaves, in your tea and swallow them, you will capture 8 new beau.
 A good housewife will never sweep at night. If she is ever obliged to do so she will sweep the dirt into corner and couldn't be prevailed to lift it until morning. This is to prevent misfortune. Nor will she at any time sweep the dirt out of her door. She will lift it in a dust-pan and burn it. This is to keep the family possessions safe. If you break dish, fate will pursue you till you break two more. If you are unmarried and fall going up stairs you will not get married until the next year; and if your chair tumbles backward your chances of matrimonial bliss for that year go with it. Getting out of bed backward causes things to go wrong for the day, while putting your right foot out first pleases fortune You have to con- suit her pleasure in dressing yourself, too. She likes you better if you put on your right shoe and stocking first You change your luck if by acci- dent you put on 6 garment wrong side out, and if you want to keep your old luck the proper thing is to turn the garment and while doing 90 spit on it and say: "For good luck or bad" If woman's skirt comes undone her sweetheart or husband has loving thoughts of her.
 . widow gives you yellow garter on Easter Sunday you will have success in love if you wear it around the left leg, and success in business if you wear 1t around the right leg. The most dire mis- fortune results from opening an umbrella or sum- shade in the house. and If man should go into tho