The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-28

Women of Renown-George Eliot's IIumpbaoked Man-AmaIir KussDer's Odd Bracelet.
 By some odd twist in her cerebral convolutions the mind of the eternal feminine is ever given to fixed and deathless belief in signs" Woman, be she ever so logical, ever so highly cultured-though her boudoir be fairly frescoed with diplomas and similar proofs that she leads the higher intel lectual life-ever fails to free herself of superstition. ...
 Babylonian tradition asserts that Semiramis, wisest and greatest of her sex, always suspended building opera tions in the great city she founded when a black cat, Egypts sacred beast, crossed her path of morning.
 Aspasia, beloved of Pericles, and crowned the queen of intellect of her day, had her own small private super stitons. Aspasia girdled and garland ed herself with amulets, each one sup posed to confer some special good-luck gift upon the wearer. History says that Zenobia, the stern-minded phloSo- pher, and companion and peer ot the wisest men of the country, was also ad- dicted to the amulet habit.
 It was not alone the wise women of a. long buried past who hung their faith on signs" and symbols Carolyn Hirschel, the greatest woman astrono- mer of the last century, firmly believed that the meeting in the morning of oss-eyed beggar always presaged the discovery of a new star.
 George Eliot also had her supersti- tions Hers was the most masculine mind that took feminine form In 1ntel- lectual Europe during the Victorian period of English literature and yet the great author of Adam Bede,' | "Romola," and "Middlemarch" con fded to the writer's mother that she always abandoned work on the day | when she met O. humpbacked or club 1 footed man.
 The late Queen Victoria cherished a number of feminine superstitions, one of them to the effect that the removal of her wedding ring would be sure'y 1 followed by some national calamity. Another superstition of the late queen law in her belief that a Manx cat brought good luck to the royal house. hold. Strict orders were issued by her majesty that al animals of that breed should be carefully cherished and cared for on the royal premises. Diplomacy has it's place in the kitchen or royalty as well as in the council halls anu courts of kings, and 1t required the greatest finesse to rid the queen household of the swarms of tailless tap- bies which her majesty would have shielded and sheltered had she been allowed her own way in the matter.
 STUNNED CRACKS.
 The best loved woman in England, Lady Millais wife of the great painter and once wed to Ruskin, had a most neculiar superstititon, which she strove strenuously to impress on all her | friends
 Lady Millais believed that the crack of doom would sound for any one who stepped knowingly or inadvertently on a crack in the pavement. Fearing that her own death would at once follow a misstep of her own, Lady Millais sell dom allowed herself to walk further than from her carriage, to shop doc, in London. Her well known superst- ton in this respect was matter of mueh amusement to her worldwide cir cIe of acouaintances, who loved to hor- rifv and alarm her by seriously assur- ing her that they had seen her nus band carelessly tread upon seam IT the pavement during one of his ram bles through London streets
 Mrs. Roosevelt, the wife of our chieI magistrate is a woman given to rev tinid fears. The wife of dashing ant adventurous rough rider, the mother O. a brood of venturesome boys. she finds time in her busy life for few alarms and vet she owns, with an apologeti' air. that the sight of a cross-eyed man especially if the warm blood Of th Ethionian tropics bounds through hi veins. presages all kinds of bad luck II her household
 The wife of Thomas A. Edison Is { woman of more than ordinary strength of character and the finest possible mental balance, yet Mrs. Edison Is n' stronger than her sex in regard U | some signs and omens Mrs. Edison be lieves thoroughly that if she dream of guinea pigs at moment when ne sleepless lord is wrestling over a neV invention that his mental exertion VII be utterly without avail and the wori which occupies his brain fiber will posl lively come to naught. MT. Edison 1 the kindest and most indulgent of hus bands yet he cannot forbear teasln' his wife to the utmost verge or exas peration about her guinea pig dreams
 The late Mrs Harriet Beecher Stow had a number of small superstitions which were a matter of much amuse ment to her extended circle of friends If was a well known belief of the wo man who wrote "Uncle Toms Cabin that it was "bad luck" to throw ava a toothbrush which had outlived 1t usefulness. Every one of these usetu toilets ad1uncts ever used by Mrs Stowe was carefully preserved by he to the distress of her household, Wh obiected to her extensive collection o wornout toothbrushes.
 Rosa Bonheur believed with su perstition amounting to reverence, 1 the efficacy of a lucky charm whic she always carried about her persor If consisted of a small leaden imag of St. Anthony of Padua. The patro saint of all things lost had in Mile. Bon heur's small eff1gy one large and glow Yinp eve of green. An emerald set al rectlv over his nose gave her LUCK ISt Anthony" the aspect ot d beneNl
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