The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-12

hair on the dark of the moon or in the
month or May at all. It's just as Well to
be on the safe side and observe the tradi-
ton as to cutting finger nails only on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays ana
Saturdays, for, of course, you know the
old rhyme:
Cut them on Tuesday, kiss a stranger.
Cut them on Wednesday, cut for a let
Cut them on Thursday, something bet
ter
Cut them on Friday, cut for sorrow.
Cut them on Saturday, joy tomorrow.
IT'S the worst possible luck to lay an
umbrella on bed or divan, and it is
fair warning of some impending misfor-
tune when a picture falls. really know
of cases where dreaming of water fire.
quently has followed by the death of
friends, and all women seriously look for
wedding cards in the mail after dream
ing on real graveyard subjects. 1t is rec
ognized to be bad luck to go back on your
footsteps for a thing forgotten, and the
girl who StumbleS on her way upstairs
understands that in spite of leap year her
matrimonial prospects are over for twelve
months"
There is a balm" said another Vassar
girl, lin the midst of bad luck signals by
which the ordinary girlN wisely tries to
counterfeit her promised i'll fortune. That
Is by wishing on things and turning back
the hoodoo. Make a wish when you meet
a person with one brown and one blue eye;
It's sure to bring you good luck; wish for
health or good weather on a shooting star,
and wish on the new moon, but look at it
through somebody's wedding ring, saying
these words:
IAN hail to thee, moon! All hail to thee!
pray thee good moon reveal to me
This night who my true love shall be-"
Il was always taught" said a Virginia
girl by my negro NANNY, that no wo-
man would ever grow bald or gray who
kept all her eombings and used them to
stuff pincushions; also that two spoons at
table meant proposal of marriage in
twelvemonth; that June and October were
the only positive lucky months for we'd
dingS, and that no sharp instrument, as
knives or scissors, should ever be received
friendships would surely be severed. There
are southern brides so sensitive on this
point they won't even allow knives to be
Included in their boxes of table silver or
the pretty steel tools to appear in any serv-
ing of manicure sets they receive. All
New Orleans girls carry little images of
st. Joseph in their pockets as charm
against spinsterhood, faithfully wear yell
low garters and refuse to receive thimbles
IN Virginia" she continued, "the old
fashioned housewives use lavendar in their
linen to prevent its wearing out quickly,
though doubt If the dried flowers possess
any such virtue. Southern girls always
read the white spots on their finger nails
beginning from the thumb: "A gift,
friend, a lover, a journey to CO." They
confidently look for the best young man to
call when by accident knife, the scissors.
or even needle sticks up in the floor and
to break ones string of pearls is the sure
sign of a great illness. A positive sign of
approaching malady is to lose a jewel from
its setting.
1T isn't to be supposed, of course, that
any woman pretendS to keep pace with all
those 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 habit
partly from genuine fears of ills to come,
we refrain from crossing funeral process
sions, never walk under ladders, and col
lect pins as we go, and confidently be-
lieve we are safer for these precautions"