Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-06-01
SOME SUPERSTITIONS.
A FEW OF THE POPULAR FEARS,
 RANCHES AND FAIRY TALES.


 Didn't Believe in Ghosts, but Afraid of Them-Things Worn and Carried to Pre- vent Disease-Unlucky to Go Under a Ladder-In and Out the Same Door.
 The probable truth is that there is not one of The Globes readers who does not at least half believe in some superstition. Somewhere in your lives you have little private closet where you keep one or more pet superstitions locked up out of sight of your friends. and, for the most part, out of your own sight But now and then you unlock the door. or they get out through the keyhole; then they look at you in the twilight with their weird eyes, full of the mystery of the past. and you find yourself on your knees before them. Perhaps you are half ashamed of them, because you do not more than half believe in them. but when hey get you alone they master you. You are like Mime. de Stael A friend said to her one day, "Do you be- lieve in ghosts?" ''No," she replied, 'but l am afraid of them, though"
 LONESOME LADY.
 Col. Ingersoll dedicated his first vol ume of lectures to "Eva A. Ingersoll, a woman without superstition" In the early mining days in California, when selfish rascality seemed to be the rule, an old miner who had been repeatedly "heeced" was very much astonished at the remarkable honesty of a young man who had just paid back some money which had been given him by mistake. Thinking he could not have many com panions in such deeds the old man stepped up to him, laid his hand on his shoulder and said, Stranger, don't you find yourself awfully lonesome about these parts?" So have often thought that if Mrs. Ingersoll is really altogether without superstition" she must some times find herself ''awfully lonesome"
 remember, when boy, that one of my brothers used to wear about his neck a red woolen cord to prevent the nose bleed. The only thing clear in my mind on the subject was that it did not pre- vent it. At any rate it used to bleed very often, while the rest of us, who did not wear one, were never troubled at all, except in those cases that all who have been boys will understand. where post, or the ice in skating, or a snowball, or some other boys fist came in somewhat violent contact with the most prominent feature of our faces. 1 suppose, how ever that there was some fanciful con nection between the red of the string and the red of the blood, and an incipient homeopathy suggested that like would cure like"
 also remember, when a child, how some of the larger boys used to carry about horse chestnut in their pockets as a preventive of rheumatism. This is one of the mysteries l have never fath- omed. Only it does seem willful per versity for people to suffer so, just to save the trouble of carrying horse chestnut. Just as it seems pure malice in any one ever to die when one looks through an apothecary shop, reads the advertise ments in the newspapers, or knows how Dr. Cullis cures people by simply praying for them, and then telling them they are we'll.
 WHAT BAD DREAMS MEAN. A friend told me the other day that when boy he always felt it incumbent on him to spit three times whenever he saw dead cat. The origin of this will not stop now to trace.
 Not long since a lady acquaintance was walking along the street with friend, when she suddenly felt herself pulled off | I,a e.1 H. ,,,%1 &la I1 sion of this sudden maneuver was the other lady's superstitious fear of alking under ladder that leaned against the wall in front of them. have learned that this superstition is very common and, perhaps, it is not worth my while to disturb it. For it might be decidedly "unlucky" to walk under ladder-pro- vided man weighing 200 was on it and it should slip; or in case an unsteady man with "drop too much." should in- dulge in a further drop too much of a loose lying brick from his hod Though in the case of the colored brother, who stood serene while the brick lay in frag- ments at his feet, and who merely ex- claimed, Look out, dar! Elf yo' doan't want yo' bricks broke jes' keep 'em off O dis chile's he'd!" it was only the brick that was "unlucky."
 have an old acquaintance in Maine who used to stick his jackknife in the headboard on going to bed to prevent his having the cramp. That is the sole in stance of that sublime faith with which am acquainted. But have known of people who warded off the same uncom. fortable nightly visitant by scrupulously arranging their slippers bottom up at the foot of their bed.
 A lady not long since went into a jewelry store. Being at corner it opened on two streets When she started to gc out. the salesman said, Madam! you have forgotten" ''Why what?" said she thinking of purchase or purse. "But you came in at the other door," he replied Then it flashed over her; and though she went on her way, she remembered that it was "unlucky" to enter by one dool and go out by another. However it may be about other places, am really inclined to think that it is unlucky for a lady tt go into a jewelry store, no matter whicl door she goes out of; unlucky for thu man who has to pay the bills.
 Then. again, it is unlucky to have |: bad dream three nights running. This i one of the signs that believe in thor oughly. "Ahar you say, "then you. too are superstitious as well as the rest O us" Yes, believe it is very unlucky t have bad dream-even one night. It i a sign that your supper didn't set well and also that you will not feel nearly & well the next morning. And if you alloy it to trouble you the next day it is anothe bad sign-a sign that you won't sleep 8 well the next night, and also sign tha you have not yet outgrown the fancifu dreams of the worlds childhood.-Dl Savage in Boston Globe.
 Silver mounted Easter eggs of decorate porcelain make serviceable sugar. salt an pepper shakers.
 q Three enameled leaves, each circled wit , diamonds, clustered about a ruby, make a 2 exouiSita hairnin