Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-08

Is an ancient remedy for a sufferer with
epilepsy; and to ward off this terrible dis
ease many people religiously wear rings
made of some metal-silver preferably
which has done duty on coffin that has
held corpse. Whenever a man falls in
an epleptic At in some of the foreign
quarters OF New York a bystander is al
most sure to rush up, open the victims
shirt and scratch a cross on the barred
breast with a pin or some sharp instru-
ment. in the belief that this charm Will
bring the man back to normal.
Probably more odd superstitlons are WOW
en- around the wart than any other of the
blemishes of the human face and form
divine.
or eight, had a large wart right in the
center of his forehead which, naturally,
gave him much worry. He was told by the
negro servant of the house to cut the
wart with a borrowed knife, let few
drops OF blood fall on a piece of paper,
then fold the paper up after the manner of
a note, drop 1t on the sidewalk in fire.
quented spot, and in weeks time after
some one had picked 1t up the wart would
disappear. 1t did. and ii has never re-
turned.
Negroes have divers charms for removing
warts. One is to rub wart with the rough
side of swamp bean leaf for seven days
and not tell any that you have done
such a thing To get rid of a seed wart,
walk due west some night when the moon
is full. then suddenly stop. stoop and pick
ground. rub the wart vigorously with 1t. all
the time keeping your eyes on the moon.
Rub till you can stand the irritation no
longer. then make straight for home and in
five six days the wart Will have dis
appeared. never to bother you more.
A still more picturesque and not so pain
full charm for removing q Wart is to beg a
chew of tobacco from an old negro, run
down the street until you meet another ne
gro, offer him the chew, and if he straight
way puts 1t in his mouth without question,
goodbye to the wart.
Have you a corn that has been giving
you all sorts of trouble when the weather
Is preparing to change from gay to grave?
Would you like TO rid yourself of the little
trouble maker? Then search until you
find a snail, break the shell, and with the
stops. Within the week out will drop the
corn, and Lone will come in its stead.
Hotel Superstitions.
The hotel business has numerous super
stitions peculiar to itself and they are as
widely believed in are the supersttions
of gamblers and habitual race track goers.
A hotel man quakes In his boots when he
finds that a register still in use has been
thoughtlessly closed by some guest just
through looking over the days list of ar
rivals. This act is supposed to throw a
baneful influence over the house for
period of nine days. and that hotel Is lucky
which energies therefrom without one seri-
Gus accident at least.
Old hotel men will tell you that the night
before the Baldwin burned in San Fran
cisco some one jokngly closed the register
before the eyes of the night clerk; that
| three days before the Gumbry, In Denver.
was blown up by its boilers and some OF
| the inmates were killed. clerk discovered
| the register closed, and so on, ad intinitum.
Hotel clerks think it bad enough that a
negro woman applies for a ROOM but If
| she is followed within the hour by another,
why. before twenty-four hours have rolled
around there Will be suicide in the hotel
| or a robbery, which will gain the house
much unenviable notoriety.
That bell boy who desires to get calls
| for ice water and such things from the
| guests who will hand out the latest tips
never fails to spit in both shoes before he
| starts on his shift, and 1t is commonly
| held among chambermaids that to try a
| door three times of morning and each
| time find 1t locked is a sure sign of death
among the help before next pay day.
Pet Fancies Of Famous Men.
Many men of brains. wide reputation and
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