The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-30
QUEER NOTIONS ABOUT LUCK.

What is good and what is bad luck is
| Gently whom had missed for month OF
two. He was hobbling painfully along
with the aid of a cane. He told me he
had fallen into stone pile in the Bowery
and sprained his ankle; had been laid up
for month.
That Is certainly bad luck" said |,
sympathetically.
"Tm in luck that didn't break nv
neck. " he replied.
but it must have come hard for Won
to be laid uD during the exciting end of a
political campaign" / remarked NV
at was. But Pm lucky there, too. for
I'd have bet on Harrison"
Which reminds me of the followino
newspaper paragraph following the cab q
intelligence of a street accident to Glad
stone:
The Grand old Man seems possessed of n
been knocked down by a cab I'm London and tnoe
tossed by a heiier while in his park At Harwarden
Very charming life, indeed! Is it good
luck TO be run over by cabs and be to .sed
by heifers, or is it merely good luck be
wasn't MANNED for life or killed.
Another friend once met me on the
street and introduced me to a couple Of
gentlemen as the "luckiest man al vel,
"Wny. this man." said he, surveying
me at arms length, was shot. three times
in the army-shot in every battle he was
ever in-shot since through the lunvs-in
fact, gets shot wherever there is anv
shooting going on-and just look at him
now Well, never saw luckier man
in my lfer'
81 have" said I-"the man who never
gets shot at all"
"But isn't it great luck you wasn't
killed. You might have been killed.
| was thinking of this the other day
when / suddenly confronted gentleman
coming out OF cheap restaurant. He
had plainly been dining on pork and u
Seeing that he was noticed he made "A
bold front OF 1t.
Pm right down to hardpan," said bs.
Had TO do it. Election just cleaned ma
out. Worse-Tm a cool thousand in tbe
hole. put up every cent had and all /
could borrow Lucky tor me nv credit
wasn't very good, don't you know, or I'd
be in IL deeper"
There was such an air of cheerfulness
about this man, whom / had known as a
pretty high roller ABOUT the uptown
cafes, that couldn't condole with him.
laughed. He laughed.
Yes, ! got stuck pretty badly, but I'll
be able To be around up town again in
about three months. Mesntime. it's
lucky for me, probably, that didn't win
I'd been warned by a medical friend that
was living too higb-you know | like
good livlng-and I'D have lived higher IN
I'd have scooped in that $1,000. / stood
TO win. Doctor prescribed simple diet.
I'm taking doctors prescription now
Only doctors prescription I ever took
pm living down about az low as they
get"
Did you ever dine on seven cents 2 Noy
OF course not; but IL isn't half bad, For
fifteen cents you can get enough to eat. /
tell you most OF us don't know how
simple thing living is. The thing
amuses me. j have room with a friend |
nice fellow-no charge.
said that the change seemed to agree
with him. Aud be did look better than I |
had ever seen him before.
"Yes"-he has n curious, musing wav |
Df pulling on that "yes"--"it's the diet
vou know. It's great luck to have cir,
,umstances glide into each other. as a.
we're. IL Harrison had been elected rd
have been drinking champagne and eat.
ng Welsh rarebits after i2 O'Clock. and
he doctor said I mustn't. Now I'm NOT
Thinking anything and eating little. 81
everything comes In Just right"