Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-05-30
SOME SUPERSTITlONS.
A FEW OF THE POPULAR FEARS
FANciES AND FAIRY TALES.

rANClES AND FANNY IAleS.
Didn't Believe In Ghosts. hut Afraid of
Them-rhings Worn and Carried 10 Pre-
vent Disease uniacky to Go Under n
Ladder In and Oat 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 a
little private closet where you keep one
OF more pet superstilions 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
Iieve in ghosts" mo. she replied, but
| am afraid Of them though"
LONESOME LADY.
Col Ingersoll dedicated his first vol
une OF lectures to Eva A. lngersoll, n
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
ssfanradr ,,.t,ph uufnK.fshaI at
the remarkable honesty of a young man
who had just paid hack 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 lngersoll is really altogether
without superstition" she must some
times find herself lawfully lonesome.
l remember when "A boy. that one of
my brothers used to wear about his neck
a red wooden cord To prevent the nose.
bleed. The only thing clear in my mind
ON the subject was that il did not pre-.
vent IL. At any rate il 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 SNOWFALL or
some other boys fist came in somewhat
violent contact with the most prominent
feature of our faces | 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 child, how
some Of the larger boys used TO carry
| about horse chestnut in their pockets
as preventive Of rheumatism. This Is
one of the mysteries have never faith
omed Only il does seem "A willful per-
versity for people To suffer so, just to save
the trouble Of carrying horse chestnut
just as il 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
DIR. Cullis cures people by simply praying
for them, and then telling them they are
well
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 = lady acquaintance was
walking along the street with a friend
when she suddenly felt herself pulled of
the sidewalk into tho street The occa.
| 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. 1t is not worth my while &c
disturb 1t. For it might be decidedly
'unlucky" TO walk under ladder-pro
yided a man weighing 200 was on it ano
1t should slip; or in case an unsteady
man with a drop too much. should in.
dulge in further drop too much of q
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. dart Ef yo' doant
want yo' bricks broke jes' keep 'em off o
dis chile's he'di" it was only the bricl
that was ''unlucky."
l have an old acquaintance In Maine
who used to stick his jackknife in tn,
headboard on going to bed toprevent hii
having the cramp. That is the sole in
stance of that sublime faith with which
am acquainted. But have known oI
people who warded off the same uncom
Portable nightly visitant by scrupulously
arranging their slippers bottom up at th,
foot Of their bed.
| A lady not long since went into 9
jewelry store Being at corner it opened
ON two streets When she started TO gC
out, the salesman said, "Madam! you
have forgotten. why whatT" said she
thinking OF purchase or purse. "But yoJ
came in at the other door," he replied
Then II flashed over her; and though she
went ON her way, she remembered thai
it was "unlucky" TO enter by ono dool
and go out by another However 1t may
be about other places, am really inclinet
TO think that it is unlucky for lady L
60 into jewelry store, no matter which
door she goes out Of. uulucky for tn,
man who has To pay the Lilis
Then again, IL is unlucky to have {