Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-30

Nou OleSS her, sald the O.d man
lovingly, "aud 1 hain't the only one
what sen 50 every day on their lives
| reckon | kin git ride home now
that She got her mornin's work done.
Come and zee me, he added as he
moved away with his faithful dog at his
heel.
4 POLITE md OK ERLT SOCIETY.
As regards hospitality and gracious
manners, the monks of Athos put to
shame the most polished ives ern reo-
pie. Disorder, tumult, confusion seem
impossible in the land of reace. If
they have differences and squabbles
about the rights of property, these
things are referred to law courts and
determined by argument of advocates,
not by disputing aud high words among
the claimants. While lie and property
are still unsafe on the mainland and on
the sister peninsulas of Cassandra and
Longros, AthOs has been for centuries
as secure as any country in England.
So far, then, all the evidence is in favor
of the restriction. Many of the monks,
being carried to tie peninsula in early
youth, have completely forgotten what a
woman is like, except for the brown,
smoky pictures, of the Panagla with her
infant in all the churches, which the
strict iconography of the orthodox
church has made as unlovely and non
human as it is possible to be. SO far,
so well. But if the monks imagine they
could simply expuuge the other sex
from their life without any but the
obvious consequences they were mis-
taken. What strikes the traveller
is not the rudeness, untidiness,
the discomfort of a purely male
society, it is rather it's dullness
and depression. Some of the older
monks We're indeed jolly enough; they
drank their wine and cracked their
jokes freely. But the novice5 who at
tended at the table, the men and the
boys who had come from the mainland
to work as servants, muleteers, laborers,
seemed all suffering under a permanent
depression and sadness. They seemed
to lack any real interest in life
SOME CURIOUS SUPERSTITIONS.
In many homestead spider will be
allowed to live, as the lord of the manor
is convinced that to kill one will surely
cause disaster to fall upon himself or
family. There is also a superstition
common in many New England States,
to the effect that if two persons are
walking along hand in hand and meet
with post or any obstacle which causes
them to separate, that the enc who
passes on the right of it will 70 to
heaven and the other to hell.
Many persons believe that if a rock
ing-chair should commence to rock of
Itself, and there be no one in it, there
will be death in the family circle. A
needle falling and sticking upright in
the floor is supposed tc give warning Of
the approach of visitor, while dog
sleeping in room with his nose pointed
to the door, betokens the death of
dear friend. Cats will, it is believed
suck the breath Of sleeping persons,
and one will never be let in room
where a baby is sleeping. The ten
dency to invent these beliefs is fast dy-
ing out, according to those who have
studied the subject, aud that as civil
cation advances, the tendency to inves-
tigate all that pertains to the unnatural
increases, and that the ease with which
the fallacy of most Of these old sayings
and superstitions is proven, deters their
growth.