The Springdale news., 1889-07-12

anu Dufn It. 1hlS Is to keep the fam- | fly possessions safe. If you break 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 tumbes 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 dame fort 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 yellow garter on Easter Sunday you will have suc- cess in love if you wear it around the 1 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 % into the betting stand at a race track with his umbrella raised he would be in danger of being mobbed.
 You will meet With a disappoint- ment if you start to go out and have to return for something you forgot unless you sit down for a minute when you return.
 You can 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 per- son. If the name you guess is cor rect, the ear will cool at once. If your nose itches, you will have news or company. If your right eye itches you will shed tears, and if your left eye itches you will laugh. A quick ring ing in either ear that overwhe!ms sound is called death knell. and preeedes news of a death. If your inner arm itches at the elbow joint, you will have an insleep or an outsleep. That is, some one will sleep at your house who Is not accustomed to sleeping there, or member of the family will be away all night. If your leg itches at the back under the knee, you will go on d journey, and if the sole of your foot itehes, you will tread on strange ground. If your right hand itches, you will shake hands with a friend; your left hand, you will get money. There is an old saying about this: "Scratch it on wood and it'll come good. That many are aware of. I've seen men who ought to know better hunt around for wood to scratch their hands on, and, not finding any available. take a lead pencil out of their pockets and rub their palms with it. A fair Wash ington belle will not have an umbrella without a wooden handle, because, she says, she always wants some wood around to scratch her hand on. Even the spots on one's finger-nails come in for share of superstition. They are called gifts.
 It is unlucky to cut the fnger-nails on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. If you cut them on Friday you are play ing into the devils hand; on Saturday, you are inviting disappointment, and on Sunday, you will have bad luck all the week. There are people who suf- fer all sorts of gloomy forebod-