Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-14

hall gift distribution I had six tickets:
every one Of them had T. in the numbers;
starch and a bad cold. To-day / I'm 81
years old. There's II reversed. When /
Mas Is. Just ID years ago. ! loved and lost.
on a car. It's number is 1l3. and the con-
ductor's number has the fatal figures in it.
This morning, when reached the office: I
found IN my mail a request to remit $3.50
to a law publishing firm, and when l went
for my luncheon l had another experience.
hour. when approached the desk to pay
my bill. 1 could only find two nickels and
snG no pen hnew Wba again aTls me- i SEE ght it all:
unlucky day. and 10 is my unlucky num-
soon he reached for q law volume. He
opened it at random. and Immediately
threw it from him. He had opened it at
will be organized for his especial benefit.
Steve h bad Day.
Up to Friday morning Assistant City En-
! gineer Stephen Mitchell was like other
short-sishted Individuals. He scoffed at
signs, omens. unlucky days and unlucky
numbers ,Ss @ard E TGiaay an he t fia1 f5ssre as + a he i,a as
tabooed entirely. Thursday afternoon he
was talking with a party of friends and
one of them happened to mention the fac,
that the next day would be the unluckiest
combination the calendar had, recorded in
some time.
mere idle superstition. l am glad to say
I never gave any credence TO such things.
To show you what little faith Place
on first. and that is said to be the un-
luGkiest thing a person could do"
did as he had promised and chuckled TO
himself as he thought how foolish some
people are: After partly dressing he con- on
razor cut a neat little cash in his chin. Go
ing downstairs to breakfast he triPped on
once. At the table a hasty move Of his
elbow sent a cup of hot coffee into his
lap and he began to look a little grave.
a succession of incidents that was likely to
occur any day and having thus relieved
himself started cheerfully for the office.
Now. it has always been his pride that in
stepping on a moving car there is no man
in Kansas City more adept than he and he
takes it as a personal affront If a con-
off. A car came along and he says he at
tempted to make his usual graceful swlns
onto the platform. only he didn't do It.
Instead he found himself hanging wildly
onto the rear rail and being jerked along
the street at the full speed Of the car:
When 1t came to a stop and he took his
seat, he felt i'll at ease and mentally wish
ed he had at least omitted that shoe bus
mess. Getting off the car at the city hall
a vagrant gust of wind blew his hat into
the street Just in time to have it stepped
on by a passing horse. while he was al
most run down by a team coming in the
opposite direction as he made a frantic
rush for the imperiled headgear. When
Mr.. Mitchell finally took his seat at his
desk in the city hall he wore the look of
a man with a heavy weight on his mind;
He felt that his belief was about to be
shaker. but by a determined effort he
pulled himself together determined not to
let idle superstition overcome his good
Il nm mr. cnrcl NV fha rrnl
until noon. and as he started out to get Il
lunch he said to himself: What idiotic
nonsense 1t is to suppose that a day or a
number can have any effect on a person
When he reached the street he deliberate
ly walked under a ladder leaning up
against a building 10 snow his utter con-
next instant he was gazing with shortened
breath at a brick that had fallen from
the top of the structure and narrowly miss
ed his head. AT the restaurant he says q
stranger had his favorite seat. a fshbone
stuck in his throat and nearly choked him,
and the cashier short changed him." d
Iact he did not discover until too late e
remedy it., On his way back to the office
he, stepped into an open coal hole and
skinned his leg. was splashed with mud
by a wagon. and nearly broke his neck
by stumbling Oh the stairs at the city hall
When Mr.. Mitchell reached home thai
night he took a copy of .Debrett on Evil
denee" from his library. and on it. he says
scon at unlucky days or numbers.
unlucky Room in Hotels.
Great Scott. You don't mean to give
me room number 49," exclaimed j. L
Toomey. a tobacco man from st. Louis. u.
Clerk Van Gunten. of the Savoy. drew
key from q box bearing the unlucky mum
ber. Surely not to-day; Friday. the 1St.
OF the month. l can't take chances on IT..
1t Is not room -: it is room 100
You can see the number on the key ant
on the door. 1t used to be number thirteen
l but We had so MANY kicks We had "a
change it, We neglected having the key
box number changed
Mr.. l.. ROnshbins. of Cincinnati. who oc
cupied number 1l3 at the SAVOY last night
took chances against the evil fombinatiol
of the day and the number of his apart
ment. There is no room numbered /