The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-23

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FANCY CLOTH SUIT.
toward you" she continued, land when
the palm of your hand itches rub it with
the rough edge of a piece of money and
you will soon receive money to add to that
piece. If you dream three times IN sue
cession of birds, you will fan heir to a
fortune within a year, and something
agreeable will occur in twelve hours IL
you happen unconseiously to put any gar
ment on inside out. To reverse the gar
ment changes the luck. If you open q book
upside down, don't attempt to read any
thing in it or you will presently overhear
something disagreeable of yourself,
know great many women who believe
that blue-eyed people are more lucky than
dark-eyed ones, who only tell their Sc
crets to gray-eyed friends, and who be-
lieve that a woman with black mole on
her body is bound to come to tragical
end"
CREDULTTIES OF A FROU-FROU
WOMAN.
My beliefs run to days." frankly ad-
nitted the woman who in the pink tea
gown was trying to pose like Bernhard.
EVERY woman who entertatnS Is sure
LneT6 IS one Udy III Inc NSSh OL Which
she can have no success in any under
taking. My bad day is Thursday, Out then
know lots OF women VINO never make
any positive engagements for saturdays.
Saturday is a very black day in society
lists and there are numbers of otherwise
sensible individuals who will never enter
tain on the day Of the week on which
some member of their family has died.
just as there are those who, having once
worn gown to funeral, will promptly
give the whole costume away. Moreover,
some girls l know feel there are certain
garments in which they always meet with
i'll luck. 1t may be a pair of pretty stock
ings, or gloves, or a dainty petticoat that
shows signs of being hoodooed and once
the evil genius is accurately fixed on
the accursed garment off 1t goes ana US
ually the possessor burns it, or gives it
to some girl she has grudge against.
Now, Of course" continued the. parlor
Bernhard solemnly, you all know that
using cracked mirror brings wrinkles
and why have jewelers. never been able
to make the topaz popular? It is because
the majority believe that directly you
take to wearing those yellow stones you
will have a rival The old superstitfons
about opalS are passing out, but a woman
is bound to be tickle in her affections If
she wears turquoise The signs OF bad
luck are the kind one is apt to notice
most carefully, and no girl with a care
for her looks ever clips her hair ends
on the dark Of the moon or in the month
of May at all. It's just as well to be on
to cutting finger nails only on Tuesdays.
Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
for, of course, you know the old rhyme:
Cut them on Monday, cut for anger,
Cut them on Tuesday, kiss a stranger.
Cut them on Wednesday, cut for letter,
Cut them on Thursday, something better,
Cut them on Friday, cut for sorrow,
Cut them on Saturday, 10y tomorrow.
ITS the worst possible luck to lay an
umbrella on a bed or dlvan and 1t IS
fair warning Of some impending misfor-
tune when a picture falls. really know
of many cases where dreaming of water
frequently has been followed by the death
of friends and all women seriously look
for wedding cards in the man after
dreaming on real graveyard subjects. 1t
is recognized to be bad luck to go back
on your footsteps for a thing forgotten,
and when the girl who stumbles on her
way upstairs understands, that in spite
of leap year, her matrimonial prospects
are over for twelve months"
ANNULLING ILL LUCK.
''There is a balm, however" remarked
the Vassar girl, lin the midst of bad luck
signals, by which the ordinary girl wisely
tries TO counterfeit her promised i'll for
tune. That is by wishing on things and
turning back the hoodoo. Make a wish
when you meet a person who has one
brown and one blue eye; they are sure
to bring you good luck; wish for wealth
or good weather on a shooting star and
wish on the new mooni but look at it
words;
All hail to thee. moon! All han to thee!
pray thee good moon reveal to me,
This night who my true love shall be-
SOUTHERN SUPERSTITIoNS.
well, 1 was always taught" broke in
the Virginia girl, "by my negro nanny,
that no woman would ever grow bald or
gray who kept all her combings and used
them to stuff pin cushions; also that two
spoons at one place at table meant a
proposal of marriage in twelvemonth;
that June and October were the only posi-
lively lucky months for weddings, and
that no sharp instrument, as knives or
scissors should ever be received as friendly
gifts else in a short while some friend
/ ship would surely be severed. There are
southern brides so sensitive on this point
/ they won't even allow knives to be in
| cluded in their boxes Of table silver, or
! the pretty steel tools to appear in any
serving or manicure sets they receive. All
! New Orleans girls carry little images OF
| st. Joseph in their pockets as a charm
! against spinsterhood, faithfully wear yell
! low carriers and refuse to receive thin
| bIes as gifts.
an Virginia" she continued, 'the old
| fashioned housewives use lavender in
! their linen to prevent its wearing out
! quickly, though I doubt if the dried flow
ers possess any such virtue. Southern girls
| always read the white spots on their fin
ger nails beginning from the thumb as
follows: "a gift, a friend, zoe, a. lover aver
for eth the best young man to call when by
accident knife, the scissors, or even a
needle sticks UP in the floor and to break
! ones string Of pearls Is the sure sign of
a great illness. AS positive sign of APP
preaching maIady is to lose jewel from
its setting. 1t isn't to be supposed, Of
| course" went on the fair Virginian, that
any woman pretends to keep pace with all
| these signs and omens; but there are
! very few of Us who don't cherish a belief
in half a dozen or more. and partly from
! TO come. we refrain from crossing funeral
professions, never walk under ladders and
| collect pins as we go and confidently be-
lieye we are safe from these precautions
/ NIT r TNENT ARR0WP0TNT