Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-08-01
SOME SUPERSTlTIONS.
The Curious Beliefs That Haunt
Many a Brain.
Dire Result Of Opening An Umbrella In
the House-The Right Way to Hang
Observation-Disclosures
and HoOdoos.

Any day and any place you can see
people yielding to superstitions. No
tice people walking together. See
couple of girls going along. carefully
preventing any one from passing be-
tween them, or if one passes round a
lamp-post or hitching-post how the
other will follow on the same side.
Dignified old men and women will
dodge back and follow their compan-
ions round hurried pedestrian. who
tries to save steps by passing between
them. or round some inanimate OBJ
struction, causing any number OF
amusing encounters. They believe
they will have quarrel or meet with
disappointment if they allow any
thing to come between them.
Others couldn't be hired to meet any
one on the stairs, going up or down,
for fear they will be disappointed.
Housewives have innumerable signs
! by which they can foretell events. If
he dishcloth is dropped there will be
a visitor. If knife is dropped, a
woman is coming; fork, a man is
coming; a spoon, a fool. II two
knives or forks or spoons are
put at place by mistake while
setting the table there is going to be a
wedding. If you spill salt you will
have a quarrel; this can be prevented
by burning pinch of the spilled salt
or throwing some over your left
shoulder. If a rooster crows at you
or at the door, he is playing the clair
voyant and telling you you will have a
surprising piece of news or an unex-
pected visitor. So also if you drop a
pair of scissors and they stick in
the floor you will have an uneX-
pected visitor. If needle sticks in
the floor, you will get letter. If
you see a pin with the head to you,
you must surely pick it up, for you
will have good luck, but avoid, if pos
sible. seeing pins with the point to you.
for if you pick them up you will have
sharp lack or bad luck. You must pick
them up, however, if you see them.
If froth or little bubbles rise to the
top of cup of tea or coffee and you
are lucky enough to catch them in a
spoon and swallow them. you will get
money, the amount varying with the
quantity of bubbles. If you Fl Id any
little sticks. the stems of tea leaves.
/ in your tea and swallow them, you
will capture new beau.
| A good housewife will never sweep
at night. If she is ever obliged to do
so she will sweep the dirt into cor
ner, and couldn't be prevailed on
/ 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 dustpan
and burn it This is to keep the fam
lily possessions safe. If you break a
dish, fate will pursue you till you
break two more. If you are unmar-
ried and fall going upstairs, 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 60
wrong for the day, while putting your
right foot out first pleases dame Tort
une. You have to consult her pleas
ure in dressing yourself. too. She
likes you better if you put on your
right shoe and stocking first You
change your luck if by accident you
put on a garment wrong side out. and
if you want to keep your old luck the
proper thing to do is to turn the gar
ment. and while doing so spit on it
and say: For good luck or bad"
If a widow gives you a yellow G arter
on Easter Sunday you will have sue
cess in love if you wear it around the
left leg. and success in business if you
wear it around the right leg. The
most dire misfortune results from
opening an umbrella or sunshade in
the house. and if a man should go into
the betting stand at a race track with
his umbrella raised he would be in
danger of being mobbed
You will meet with q disappoint-
ment if you start to 60 out and have
to return for something you forgot
unless you sit down for a minute when
you return.
You GA tell your. fortune By the
sensations of your own body. When
your right ear burns some one is
speaking good Of you. and when the
left ear burns it is evil. You can
even discover who the gossipers are
by moistening the lobe of the warm
ear with saliva and naming a per-
son. II the name you guess is cor
rect, the ear viii cool at once. II
yonr nose itches. you will have news
or company. II your right eye
itehes you will shed tears, and
If your left eye i,ches
you wM laugh 4 quick ring