Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-02-06
A LUCKY ACTRESS.
And She Disregards Every Super.
stition, Too.
Miss Jansen One OF tho Few In Her Pro-
fession Not Afraid OF Hoodoo -
How Ono BAD Days Fortune
Was Reversed.

When you meet an actor or an
actress who can see a peacock
feather without a shudder or who
will calmly walk under a ladder with
out emotion you have met a wonder.
Probably no class of people in the
world are as superstitious as profess
SIGNALS, and none would go to great
err lengths to obtain a mascot or to
escape hoodoo, says the Boston
Globe.
There arc certain wcll-recognized
supcrstitions that every sclf-respect-
ing actor will live up to, and some
of them are ludicrous enough, but it
has remained for Miss Marie Jansen
60 oppose the traditional supersti-
tion and in every way lay herself
open to infection from the baleful
germ of the hoodoo.
She carries bunch of peacock
feathers in her trunk, and they or
namcnt the walls of any dressing
room in which she happens to be,
and this alone has caused an acct
dent insurance company to declare
increased dividends from the pre-
miums they receive from the Del
monicos at Six" party.
When Miss Jansen was playing in
Philadelphia she stopped at the
Stenton hotel, and the room assigned
to her was No 12A. A series of
misfortunes began. She caught a
horrible cold, and her voice was
scarcely distinguishable. Her maid
took her fox terrier out to walk and
lost him.
She went to Il dentist for relief
from an aching tooth, and he was SO
dazzled by the dainty actress APP
pearance that he braced his feet,
and with a long pull and strong
pull extracted a remarkably healthy
tooth that proved to be the wrong
one.
This chapter of accidents caused
Miss Jansen to investigate. She
noticed that the rooms on either
side of her parlor were No. ~
and H. She interviewed the clerk,
who admitted that the real number
Of her suite was Is, but they had
changed it to PA because so many
people were supcrstitious. Miss
Jansen thought that if her room
was numbered - her troubles would
cease, so she gently limited to the
clerk that unless ia came d0sen
and - went up there would be
marked and distinguishable vacuum
in her usual resorts.
Her wishes were obcycd, and she
says herself that her voice began tC
improve that day, her cold vanished,
a man brought back her dog and re-
fused to sccept any reward, while
the browning act of good luck was
shown in the dentists wife suing
him for divorce and twenty thousand
dollars alimony. During the bal
ance of the week, in fact, during the
entire engagement, Miss Jansen's
luck was superb.
She toycd with every superstition.
She walked under ladders, and the
only mishap she met with was few
drops OF paint on new tailor-made
dress. She commented on the line
of ticket buyers at the box Office,
and, instead of the usual result OF
the line suddenly melting away, it
was increased fourfold.
She walked out Of her dressing
room one night and reentered the
thcatcr with her left foot forward,
which is popularity supposed 10 be
fatal, not only to the person who
does it, but to all their immediate
relatives.
She even went to the length of
having her nails manicured on Fri
day, the penalty for which is sup
posed to be mental alteration ac-
companied by deafness, dumbness
and blindness.
In spite of all these things she
kept right along and an aunt made
hcra present Of five thousand dollars.
She found a diamond ring she had
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