Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
BRIDAL SUPERSTITION.

Acts of Omission and Commission
That Bring Luck or Ill Luck.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Few girls are dauntless enough to FISK
being married on a Friday and also IN the
month of May, which is considered very
unlucky time, while June, September &c
tober and December are ieemed the luck
lest months of the year, but even then she
must avoid the thirteenth day
Monday Tuesday and Wednesday are con-
sidered the best days to he married on If
assurance of happiness is desired, for
Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday the best day of ALL
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all.
All brides-eiect rejoice when the marriage
day dawns brightly, remembering the OLD
adage:
BIest is the bride upon whom the sun doth
shine.
And all are equally certain that
To change the and not the letter
Is change for the worse and not the better.
The day following the wedding belongs
exclusively to the husband. and fortunate
for him if it be fair
In earliest times among the Jews the
fourth day of the week was considered I'M
lucky for maidens to we'd and the fifth for
widows. The Romans considered the nones
and ides of each month IS unlucky.
now regarded with such horro that many
will be welded sick bed or in house
of mourning rather than change the date.
1t is an overload woman, indeed who will
let her vanity so far get the better Of her
as to don her bridal robes in their entirety
before the hour set for the ceremony, as
such an act presages death and dire mis-
fortune. In fact, the brides toilet has
great deal to do with her future happiness,
and it is a wise sirl who remembers all the
superstitionS pertaining 10 it.
She should always remember to put her
right shoe on first, for to don the left first
portends an unhappy married life.
White is the color usually chosen for bridal
robes. signifyins purity and innocence, but
others may be chos IN wisely, as the follow
ing rhyme asserts:
Married in white,
You have chosen all right.
Married in gray
You will go far away.
Married In black,
You will wish yourself book
Married in red,
You'd better be dead.
Married in green.
Ashamed TO be seen.
Married in blue,
You'll always be true.
Married in pearl
You will live in whirl.
Married in yellow.
Ashamed of the fellow,
Married in brown,
You'll live out of town.
Married in pink,
Your spirits will sink.
Then no bride must go TO the altar with
out something old and something new
something borrowed and something blue"
Neither must she, after her toilet is COM
plete, look at herself in the mirror. She
must see that no bridal guest wears a cos
tune entirely black, as that would brink
her sorrow. On changing her gown she
must throw away every pin used in the
bridal attire.
No girl who would be happy bride must
take hand in the r1aking of her wedding
cake or the sewing of her bridal gown.
To try on d wedding ling before the cerc-
mony is unpropitious. Should the shaking
hand of the groom drop this symbol of love
in the act of putting it on the brides finger
the ceremony had better be stopped right
there To lose it is prophetic of evil, ard
many fancy to remove 1t after it is placed on
the finger is unlucky
The breaking of a wedding ring is surely
prophetic OF the Heath of one o. the married
twain.
There Is an explanation to this supersti-
ton:
As the wedding rings wears
So wear away life's cares.
Which is of the same theory that time will
cure all ills.
The throwing of rice and old slippers
(Which should never be oiuittei) is dc scend-
ed from antiquity, rice meaning fertility
and plenty, while the old shoe is supposed
to invoke the favor Of the tickle goddess
of fortune.
No bride or groom must turn back alter
starting, and the bride must be sure when
she leaves nome to place In Ler pocket
silver coin. so that in future years she may
not come to want. In the Isle of Man ii is
customary for The bride and groom to 20
to the altar with a pinca of salt in their
pocket to insure life of prosperity
Above all things should a bride weep IN
her wedding day, no matter how happy
she may be. She must squeeze out tear or
so, for the bride who neglects to weep will
be very unhappy indeed.