The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-07-18

Il ceremony she VIII have DO luck ct I'll
land II she tries ON her wedding
gown after It II sent home equally
dreadful things will happen"
III 1t rains on wedding day" the
other inteTpolated, the prospect for a
life OF misery 10 excellent"
mo girl should wear pearls on that
suspicious occasion" verbena said.
They are for tears."
Petunia shielded her face from the
blaze with q fat gold cushion. II
know q girl who married and wore
pearls" she said, "and the bad luck
every one predicted behind her back
promptly arrived. She attribsted It
all to the jewels. One day when she
was very much reduced she slipped
the pearls to q jewelers. and tried to
pawn them. He told her they we're
limitations, and her husband owned up
that he had sold the real ones before
they were married and these we're
only limitations of the family heir
loom. So 1t couldn't have been the
pearls that brought the unhappiness
In this particular case"
"She couldn't have expected much"
che other replied, scornfully, with
man who could have deceived her 20
shamefully about such . thing"
"And another girl know attributed
| all her bad luck and illness to an opal
ring" continued Petunia, land she
took It out one day to exchange It for
something else and she found that
the opal was only cleverly cut glass
setting. chemically colored. But,
strange to say, for some mysterious
reason, her affairs did look up after
that"
"Of couPse"-patronizingl can
think things SO persistently and so
delude ourselves into believing them
true that the bad luck we expect natur-
ally happens. When that girl ceased
believing the opal brought her bad
luck she ceased being unlucky. We
attract bad luck or good luck just as
we expect 1t"
But tell me, do you really believe
that?"
Most certainly do. Luck or lack
of 1t Is simply our attitude towards
the world; just as the good people
bring out the best that Is in us and the
bad ones always have people turn the
worst side Of their natures toward
them"
Il wonder" the other reflected
aloud. "how signs and superstitions
started-in the dark ages?"
1T Is more likely" verbena 70
Joined, they started In the ancient
comic papers. You know the chest
nut that 1t is unlucky to sit down at
the table with 10 people-if there IL
only food for 1877"
And, of course, 1t Is unlucky to
walk under ladder II 1t happens to
fall on you"
And my brother says"-Verbena
beamed up at the picture of good
looking young man on the dressing
table-"that 1t is good luck to find
orseshoes-provided, of course, you
don't pick them up too near the race
track"
81 have had lucky Clothes" Petunia
insisted. "and unlucky clothes. Why,
l used to have a street gown that I
simply loathed because every time l
wore 1t something unpleasant hap
pened. Positively, with It on never
met a person liked. It seemed to
call forth the particular people I'd
run mile to avoid. 1t brought all
sorts of disagreeable things in my
direction"
Nonsense" responded the other;
those people simply reflected your
mental attitude, my dear. You showed
your upset state of mind, sending
forth waves Of discomfort, as the
theory some one has expounded re-
Gently claims, and the people you
met responded with like currents Of
| thought"
Petunia said. ARE as the sands on
the seashore. believe in seeing the
new moon clesr. 1t always brings me
good luck"
. 81 know a very clever woman"
Verbena agreed, who says the man
In the moon IL q magician. He can
turn pair OF everyday mortals into
cooling turtle-doves in the twinkling
of an eye!'.
II used to know q cynical old b6che-
lor up In the mountains last summer"
the other returned, who went around
warning every goodIooking man who
registered at the hotel that every
Observation-Disclosures maiden wasn't
breakfast beauty"
There's good sign to Offset every
bad ne"-rehectively. "All of us
couldn't be born under lucky stars.
80 Destiny squared things up by let
ting some of our birthdays come under
sensible consultations"
"And people who are having the
right kind of luck, anyway"-the
younger girl poked the fre--"don't
believe ihSft."
None Of us really believe in those
old superstitions," the other replied.
"Here you and !, for instance. sit
combing our hair after dark"
What To- your sign of that?"
1T means 'combing sorrow to your
heart, "--verbena smothered yswn.