Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-17

than faith in their potentially for good or evil,
but that they do influence the day and the date
is not to be denied, and strange to relate church
people pay more attention to these supersti-
lions than those outside the pale.
A bit Of doggere, which comes from very
ancient history and is found in the folk lore OF
every nation, tells in rude jingle how the we'd
ding day was chosen by the ancients:
MONDAY for wealth.
Wednesday. the best day Of all,
THURSDAY for Crosses.
Friday for losses.
Saturday. no day at ALL"
While Sunday was simply blotted from the
calendar of marriage days.
Friday has come to be looked upon as an I'M
lucky day for any venture. Possibly because
Of the odium attached to it as the day upon
which the Savior was crucifed, and the one
upon which legal hangings usually take plsce.
Yet in Scotland. that country Of rock-ribbed
superstition, Friday is considered q particularly
lucky day!
THE BEST DAY OF ALL.
"wednesday, the best day of all, says the
doggerei, and Wednesday is more honored by
Hymen's devotees than any other day in the
week. Tuesday is considered fairly favorable.
but state weddings seldom occur on Monday.
In Scandinavia Thursday is considered the day
of ill omen, corresponding to our Friday. and
Dean Swift evidently concurred in the Scan
dinavian theory as he made Thursday" rhyme
with cursed day" and not a very good rhyme
either.
Marriages on Sunday are infrequent in So
ciety. When they do take place they are usually
'eXpedients' and not always smiled upon by
Cupid and not often by fortune. 1.-The better
the dav the better the deed" seems to have no
show in Sunday wedding. and a marriage on
that day is usually devoid of all its picturesque
49, haSf Anvxn
and maids of honor.
Society never marries during Lent, though it
is not at all probable that the ancient rhyme,
Marry in Lent
Live to repent.
hO anvthing to do with it. Still il is q fact
thfs a society devotee would rather wear rue
the rest of her life than invoke a rice shower
during the Lenten season. An old church
canon forbade marriages between Rogation and
Whit Sunday. and another old-time jingle
rhymes some of these church canons as follows:
advent marriage. doth deny.
But HAY gives thee liberty:
SeI'tasge-.In says thee nay.
Eight days si from m, La.er avs you may.
| But Trinity sets thee free again"
There are many DAYS throughout the year
that the ancien.s looked upon omincus for
| those who entered the marital state those
dates. A very old Scotch folklore writer saws:
| THAT day of the week upon which the l4th OF
May happens to fall in any year is esteemed
unlucky through ali the remainder Of the year.
| None marry or begin any business upon it.
None chuse to marry in January or May or to
have their banns proclaimed in the end of one
quarter of the year and to marry in the be-
ginning OF the next Another tabooed day ID
| "Innocents day.. upon which Herod killed the
babies. The Romans never contracted mar
| riage on the ''ides' or "nones' of any month,
and marriage contracted on certain of the
saints DAYS was invalid. A student Of folk lore
plorh ,1vr fl,a 70,
at all since the prohibited DAYS far outnum
bered the free ones and free one in one natior
was a crime against the church In another
Just as the marriage and divorce laws OF the
various states make a man happy benedict il
one commonwealth and felon In another.
COLOR OF THE WEDDING GOWN.
Even the color Of the wedding gown is shad
owed by superstition.
They that marry in green
| Their sorrow is soon seen."
the rhyme goes. "Blue is true" the old say.
ing has it, and blue has been favored for wed
ding dresses since time began. Red is happ,
color. but '.yellow is jealousy" and by the an
clients was considered atrocous taste. Tn
wedding dress must not be tried on is anothe
superstition. The fitted wedding dress is sur
to become its wearer's shroud
Weeping brides are not pretty objects, but i
is considered an excellent omen il the brid
cries on her way to the church or before start
ing and the Scotch think that il she does no
cry she is a witch and welded to Satan
Happy the bride the sun shines on" !
another superstition. and rainy day is con
sidered an i'll omen indeed. ''In tears an
trouble shall her davs be spent it is said ,
. prophesy. The Scotch rhyme has it this way:
IF the day be foul
That the bride gangs hams.
Alack and alace.
But she lived her lanei
81 If the day be fair
That the bride gangs hame.
Bath pleasure aud peace
Before her gaua."
o The canny Scots will not marry in May.
4 MARRY in May.
Rue for e."
: their rhyme runs-the ancients rhvmed every