Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-05
0ME SUPERSTITI0NS.
IN or THE POPULAR FEARS,
ANclEs AND FAIRY TALES.

Believe In Ghosts, but Afs~id Of
--Tnings Worn and Carried to Pre-
Disease Unlacky to Go Under .
>er-In and Out the Same Door.
probable truth is that there is not
The Globes readers who does not
q half believe In some superstition.
whers in your lives you have
brivate closet where you keep one
Ne pet superstitions locked up out
<ht Of your friends. and. for The
bart, out Of your own sight But
md then you unlock the door. or
get out through the keyhole; then
Book at you In the twilight with
weird eyes, full of the mystery of
ast, and you find yourself on your
= before them. Perhaps you are
ashamed Of them, because you do
core than half believe in them, but
= hey get you alone they master
q You are like Nine. de Stael. A
n said to her one day, do you be-
In ghosts3" mo" she replied, but
afraid Of them. though
A LONESOME LADY.
Ingersoll dedicated his first vol
of lectures to Eva A. Ingersoll,
In without superstition. In the
mining days in California, when
b rascality seemed to be the rule,
u miner who had been repeatedly
ced" was very much astonished at
7emarkabie honesty of a young man
4 had just paid back some money
ID had been given him by mistake.
king he could not have many COM
bns in such deeds the old man
Jed up to him, laid his hand on his
1der and said, stranger. don't you
yourself awfully lonesome about
parts2'' So I have often thought
<if Mrs. Ingersoli is really altogether
&hout superstition, she must some
81 find herself lawfully lonesome.
Remember, when a boy, that one of
brothers used to wear about his neck
= wooden cord to prevent the nose
~. The only thing clear in my mind
he subject was that it did not pre-
h it. At any rate it used to bleed
often, while the rest of us, who did
wear one, were never troubled at all,
|&pt in those cases that all who have
u boys will understand, where a post,
he ice in skating, or a SNOWFALL, or
q other boys fist came in somewhat
ZEN: contact with the most prominent
lure of our faces. l suppose, how
4 that there was some fanciful con-
fion between the red of the string
1.-The red of the blood, and an incipient
neopathy suggested that like would
= like"
&lso remember, when a child, how
VI of the larger boys used to carry
|nt horse chestnut in their pockets
preventive of rheumatism. This is
yof the mysteries ! have never faith
ID. Only it does seem willful per-
aity for people to suffer SO, just to save
Itrouble of carrying horse chestnut.
q as it seems pure malice in any one
II to die when one looks through an
}thecary shop, reads the advertise
hts in the newspapers, or knows how
Cullis cures people by simply praying
|them, and then telling them they are
WHAT BAD DREAMS MEAN.
Kfriend told me the other day that
- boy he always felt it incumbent
him to spit three times whenever he
\ q dead cat. The origin of this will
stop now to trace.
ut long since lady acquaintance was
King along the street with friend.
"a she suddenly felt herself pulled off
Sidewalk into the street. The occa-
Il of this sudden maneuver was the
I'll lady superstitious fear of W Walking
Den ladder that leaned against the
II in front of them. have learned
It this superstition is very common
Il perhaps, it is not worth my while to
furb it. For it might be decidedly
to walk under ladder-pro-
led man weighing 200 was on it and
should slip; or in case an unsteady
81 with a drop too much" should in
BE in a further drop too much of a
Sc lying brick from his hod. Though
the case of the colored brother, who
od serene while the brick lay in frag-
!nts at his feet, and who merely ex-
lined, Look out, dar! Eff .yo' doan't
mt yo' bricks broke jes' keep 'em off O
chile's he'dr it was only the brick
II was 'unlucky.'
have an old acquaintance in Maine
20 used to stick his jackknife in the
Billboard on going to bed to prevent his
wing the cranlp. That is the sole in
nee Of that sublime faith with which
Im acquainted. But have known OF
pple who warded off the same uncom.
table nightly visitant by scrupulously
fanging their slippers bottom up at the
1t of their bed.
A lady not long since went into a
selry store. Being at corner it opened
two streets. When she started to &c
!, the salesman said, "Madam! you
We forgotten. "Why'what?" said she
mixing of purchase or purse. but you
me in at the other door" he replied
zen it flashed over her; and though she
snt on her way, she remembered thai
was "unlucky" to enter by one dool
d go out by another. However it may
about other places, am really inclined
think that it is unlucky for a lady t.
into d jewelry store, no matter which
or she goes out of; unlucky for the
an who has to pay the bills.
Then, again, it is unlucky to have {
d dream three nights running. This il
Q of the signs that | believe in thor
ghly. "Ahar you say. then you, too
Q superstitious as well as the rest o.
p Yes, believe it is very unlucky tt
We bad dream-even one night. 1t il