The evening world., 1908-10-15
NINE. GADSK| IS
NOT SUPERST|T|OUS,
I NOT A BIT OF It
Has prejudice" About Going
Back for Something Forgot
ten; Superstitious, Oh, No!
OPALS UNLUCKY, TOO.
Scorns the 10 Hoodoo, but
Wouldn't Give a Looking
Glass to.a Friend.
OPALS UNLUCKY, TOO.
BY Ethel Lloyd Patterson.

Friday the 18th holds no terrors fo-
Nine. Johanna Gadski, the Metropolitan
Opera Company soprano. This is be-
cause Nine. Gadski is positively-not
supcrstitious. To be sure. she does find
opals unlucky and she would not give
to a friend a bookings glass or knife.
! Then. too, she has an unaccoun.aSle
prejudice against returning to a room
for a forgotten article. And. OF course,
everybody dislikes to have good luck
wished to them at the beginning of an
enterprise. But these are not super
stitions. Absolutely-No Nine. Cad
ski herself desisnates them as a sort
OF feeling"
After hearing that Nine. Gadski had
refused to land from the steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse on the thir-
tenth day of the month, l was con-
siderably amused TO find her enjoying
an apartment No. 1911 on the thirteenth
floor of the S.. Regis. and looking both
happy and healthy.
4, Not a Bit Supers.itious.
mo. / am not superstitious-not a
particle-about anything," she declared
II would have landed without hesita-
ton on the thirteenth OF the month IL
SlEnor Campartnis feelings upon the
subject had not been so strong. OF
course. a number of Us stayed on board
the ship III difference 20 his prejudice.
As far as ! personally am concerned
would like to have landed on the
thirteenth. My first appearance in
America was on a Friday the 18th.
and l have been SO fortunate and so
happy here. How. then. could l be
afraid Of it?"
And you have none ot those little
feminine misgivings about intangible
something's? II would not. tor instance,
worry You 10 break looking glass?"
NOT III the least" Nine. Gadski at
firined. Il would not care now many 1
proAe. OF course" she added slowly.
Il would not care to present looking
gas 10 friend"
'-Why?"
II But They Do Say
'-They do say. replied Nine. Gadski.
EeslGaLngly. that 10 give either u
looAng-g ass or penknife breaks
Iriendsh!p.'
And opals: are you fond OF them?"
'Nery-Indeed l am" she declared en-
Enthusiastically. i have an exquisite
three-stone opal ring. But do you
know lowering her voice. ''it is the
most peculiar thing about that ring. i
am always losing II or nislaying II.
But II there Is one thing ] am not su-
perstitlous about, it is opals.
Il must admit that ! have a sort OF
feeling against returning 10 room for
an article l have forgotten. I am not
feeling"
sitting perfectly still In n chair and
counting twelve before you start out
mo" said the singer, much inter-
ested. apparently; what does that do?"
Breaks the SPELL"
"Ah" said the non-superstitious one,
II am glad to know that"
just then pink and white young
face. topped with a mop of spun gold,
made its appearance at the doorway.
MY husbands first y'ife's daughter"
Nine. Gadski informed me soemnly.
Then her gravity gave way and She
Lolita is getting SO big that l am
ashamed to own her as my child, SO
think I will have to say she is the
daughter of my husbands first wife.
Isn't that a good idea? She is. you
know, for my husband has only been
I laughed with her as we walked
toward the door. but stepped carefully
80 as not TO trip over rug. II you do
that, you know. they say you won't get
married that year