The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-08

shoe or two, and the bride losses her bouquet among the girls to inform her who is lucky enough to catch it that she will be the next one married. But
 wheat is really the thing to throw, be-
 cause the evil spirits hate the color yell
 low above all things-if white grain
 like rice is used it attracts them, and,
 to become efficacious, should be colored
 yellow With tumerc or some similar
 aye. Ghosts and the things that bring lIl-luck hate leather, so old shoes are
 proper except in those instances when It was suggested that the guests throw
 the carriage and let the couple drive
 away In the shoe. But shoe under
 your pillow is a radical cure for night
 mare and cramps in bed can be averted
 py placlng slipper upside down at the
 Ioot of the couch. The use of trunk
 straps, slippers, leather whips and the
 ike on small boys also prevents the ap-
 proach or new spirits of mischief and
 urlVes orr the old ones. It is we'll for
 the bridegroom to sew garlic, cloves
 ana rosemary in his waistcoat before
 the ceremony-no spirit gets depraved
 enough to stand that combination!
 The route at a wedding must be ar
 ranged so that everything is done as
 the sun travels or as the hands of a
 watch go round; anciently there used
 to be a sacred fire about which the
 bride and groom danced in this manner
 It is all right enough to find a four
 leaved clover, @ horseshoe or the like,
 but mere picking them up is not lucky. It must be an assured fact that the finding is a thing of pure chance; then, as the object is taken in hand, you must say: T do not pick up this horse- shoe Cor as the case may bel, but I pick up good luck May it never leave mel" Horseshoes are useful for more things than one; crooked nail from one is a sure cure for fits, or If placed in the nest of setting hen will keep her from being frightened off by thun- der Made into a ring and worn on the third finger of the left hand it cures rheumatism. But it cannot be insisted upon too strongly that all these things must be found-you cannot buy luck.
 Mirrors are good things to have-if they remain whole. It is always wise to have little one set in a ring, brooch or bracelet. You know evil things are unable to withstand a sight of them selves. If they catch the slightest glance of their ugly visages they flee for their very existence. This makes a barber shop a lucky place to have your hair cut in; but the barber must be par ticular to go to the top of hill with all his clippings and let them be blown away, else something undesirable may find the hair and work you 8. mischief. There are some barbers in Chicago who are known to be careless about climb ing hills for this purpose. Holding a mirror in front of man when he is sleeping will put stop to any hail. storm if persisted in. And by the way, the unluckiest thing in the world is to steal from a blacksmith. Many a man has been known to be defeated on elec- tion day because in his boyhood he took things from the smithy without per- mission. And it is also unfortunate to make any disposition of the parings of your finger nails except to bury them.
 The evil eye is an ancient institution and one worthy of regard. The ani- mus behind the owner of the bad eye is always envy He sees something he wants and looks askance at it, and af- ter that the thing never has any luck Then, when the evil eyed one sees that, she cannot wish for it and her power is gone. In some places this is done by putting a little piece of black court plaster or something similar on the face. Lampblack on the eyelids is fa- mous though pains should be taken not to make it look like long eyelashes. Tn Chicago the favorite cosmetic for this purpose is soot-what the British call blacks" These are generally worn; and it has been eruditely surmsed that this one reason why the city and it's in- habitants have such good luck-no en- vious visitor has ever been able to make the evil eye work through the smoke nuisanee.-Chicago Times-Her- aid.