The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1901-07-06
AN UNLUcKY ROOM.


AN UNLUCKY ROOM.
She is girl bachelor, who paints
china, does bit Of writing now and
then and a lot OF things like that
She is a remarkable girl in other ways,
too, but she not only says that she is
not ,uperstitious, but she proves it,
She even has what she calls her "un.
lucky ROOM" and a most wonderful
apartment it t. Here may be found
everything calculated to defy the
Fate,
Everything that Is considered a bad
omen this strange girl delights m
You can't enter the room without
walking under ladder, and every
body knows how unlucky that is
Suspended directly over the doorway
is small section Of one that was once
used by painters Then there is a
cracked mirror that confronts you
and you can't help looking into it.
The girl fixes her hair before it every
morning Peacock feathers are strewn
about in profusion and what can be
more unlucky than peacock feathers:
Yet she delights in them
Then, according TO popular supcrsti-
tion, to open an umbrella in the house
is to invite all manner of ill.fortune,
and vet directly shove this girls bed
is suspended an umbrella that is never
closed Nor does she look as though
her dreams were disturbed by its ON
nous presence The number l3 is
her pet. There are Just thirteen ar
ticles OF furniture IN the room; she
will have no more and no less There
are thirteen pictures on the wall and
thirteen photographs on her dressing
table Moreover. her birthday comes
on the 9Th of the month, and if she
should happen TO get thirteen pres
ents, she would be- much happier than
with hundred ! She wears no jewel
~ except opals, which a, every body
knows, are considered very, very un
lucky The other girl, all tell her she
will never get marriedu and she doesn't
know whether that would be- unlucky
or not New York Herald
No WONDER SHE WAS UPSET
The lady story writer lowered in the
doorway
Perhaps you take me for a writer Of
patent medicine advertisements, She
sarcastically remarked to the startled
editor
Il think not, madame, he man.
aged to reply What seems to be the
difficulty"
Then you have not noticed IL" she
cried.
He shook his uncombed locks
Listen. she said, As she flung =
glance Of disdAin at him. THE atroc-
ity occurs in the chapter of nv story
where the heiress discovers the per
fdy Of her spendthrift husband This
is the particular sentence: She paled
with Indignation, and, STOPPING sud
denly took bill from the oblong box
befose her "
Yes, said tho editor, Was there
an error in the printed copy ?"
Error" shrieked the authoress
There were two Of them, They were
worse than errors-they are crimes
Listen for .ndi nation you subst'.
tuted indigestion ard in place OF bill
you printed pill
And she gurgled in her throat as
she swept from the room. Tit Bits
THE KIND OF WOMAN I LOVE.
How TO describe her | hardly know.
The woman love Is the woman who
possesses all the womanly virtues and
qualities devotion, relia-
bility. The little fsilings forgive in
her are those Of her sex, friyolity and
the divine right OF changing her mind.
II, in any way, woman apes man, she
is intolerable and hateful
should she be beautiful Not neces-
ssrily.
Pretty. Yes, rather Good figure ?
Decidedly
Clever: H'm-yes Cheerful: BY
all means
Punctusl Like a military man,
Serious. Not too much.
Froiyolous Yes. just a little
OF scientific turn Of mind
B-r-r-r-r, no, should shuddcr at the
idea Of it
OF an artistic nature then, with lit.
erary tastes Yes. certainly
But. above all. a keen. sensible little
diplomatist, who would make it the
business OF her life to study me. and
| would make it the business Of my
life to study her a woman who could
be-, IN turn, according to circumstan.
ces, housewife, a counselor pal, a
wife. a sweetheart, a nurse, n patient,
the sunshine Of my life, and always a
confdante, friend and partner. -
Max o Rel
TRYING To EXPLAIN.
" Josiar. " said Mrs. Corntossel,
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