Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-15
AMULETS IN GREAT DEMAND.
a FAD That IL Growing In Popularity,
Among Women, But Really De-
mAnda Careful Study.

mAn0a Careful Study
Amulets and lucky stones of on,
sort and another are becoming NOR,
and more popular with women, ant
the bangle of detested memory is re
vived in a more romantic and inter
esting form. The modern girl is de
cidedly up in fetichism and though
some frivolous fair ones wear lew
eled cows and pigs and lizards and
shamrocks and bells and boots in.
discriminatory and impartially, the
really up-to-date young woman
chooses her talismans fastidiously and
is learned in talismanic lore, says the
New York Sun.
To be really wise and occult one
must go in for astrology and choose
ones talismans in accordance with
the symbols of the planet under whose
influence n was born; but it is ask
ing too much of the modern society
girl to insist upon her adding astrol-
ogy to her already depressing roper
toire. Still it doesn't require much
research to find out whether Capri
corn or Cancer or some other Zodi-
acal sign is most appropriate for ones
lucky piece.
For general mascot purposes a
white elephant is about as satisfac-
tory as anything one could choose.
There is nothing exclusive about him.
Like the rain, he patronizes both the
just and the unjust, and he is a ter
ror to evil spirits of all sorts and
varieties. In the far east he is worn
in all sizes and materials, and the
nor white elephants one can intro
duce into household decorations the
surer one is of domestic felicity. The
idea ought to be adopted by western
decorators. If a trieze of white ele-
plants could foil the divorce courts
it would be worth having.
The pig, too, is q fair success as
understudy to ones guardian angel,
and serpents bring blessings; but a
lizard u . hoodoo of the most fatal
sort, and the amount of harm being
done by jeweled lizards is beyond
calculation. Boot and shoe .orna
ments, which have become so popu-
lar, are also inimical to happiness, and
as for tiny bells-well, only a brave
and dauntless soul can wear them
and come out with life and morals in
tact. Their tinkling, as is well un-
derstood by every student of the
occult, calls up all evil spirits within
hearing, and the wearer of a bell
lives in a Walpurgis Nacht
crowd.
The short life and violent death of
the average love affair is Ineligible
when one realizes that by all the
laws of fetichism the exchanging be-
tween lovers of hair or any orna-
ment in shape Of a heart is q sure
token of disaster. Some philanthro-
pist should have made a crusade
in behalf of ignorant lovers, and have
explained the evil occult influence of
hair and hearts, in emotional mat
ters; but men and maids have been
to rush on their fate un-
warned.
The four-leaved clover loses all it's
efficacy as a good omen when it leaves
the hand that gathered it; and in
Iced no charm green in color should
be worn, as it is more than likely
to bring a misfortune in it's wake.
The left hind foot of a graveyard
'abbit that was caught in the light
the moon has its virtues, but no
,ther rabbits foot is worth pocket
DOM, and even the powerful piece
# a rope by which a man has hanged
himself will bring nothing but ill
uck to the possessor if the suicide
happened to be born under the in
luence of Saturn.
Altogether, the ~intricacies of the
mascot question are many and devil
'us, and no n should 60 in for
recklessly. The twentieth
entury IL, so say the prophets, to be
specially noted for its fatal acct
|ents; and that being the case, mas
OTIS should be in great demand, but
lnless one has time to study the hid
en- mysteries OF occult lore it would
erhaps be safer to stick to the be-
ign and ever amiable white ele-
hant.