The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-06-05

ceremony she will have no luck at all
and II she tries on her wedding.
gown after it is sent home equally
dreadful things will happen"
II 1t rains on q wedding day." the
other interpolated, the prospect for q
life of misery is excellent"
No girl should wear pearls on that
suspicious OCCASION" Verbena said.
They are for tears"
Petunia shielded her face from the
blaze with fat gold cushion. Il
know girl who married and wore
pearls" she said, and the bad luck
every one predicted behind her back
promptly arrived. She attributed it
all to the jewels. One day when she
was very much reduced she slipped
the pearls to jewelers. and tried to
pawn them. He told her they were
limitations, and her husband owned up
that he had sold the real ones before
they were married and these were
only limitations of the family heir.
loom. So it couldn't have been the
pearls that brought the unhappiness
in this particular case"
e"She couldn't have expected much
the other replied, scornfully, with a
man who could have deceived her SC
shamefully about such a thing"
"And another girl l 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 course"-patronizin can
think things so persistently and sc
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 it,"
But tell me, do you really believe
that?"
Most certainly l do. Luck or lack
of it 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?"
ut is more likely" Verbena re
joined, they started in the ancient
comic papers You know the chest
nut that it is unlucky to sit down al
the table with IL people-if there is
only food for 1872"
and, of course, it is unlucky tc
walk under ladder if it happens te
fall on YOU"
"And my brother says''-Verbens
beamed up at the picture of good
looking young man on the dressing
table-"that it is good luck to fine
horseshoes-provided, of course, yor
don't pick them up too near the race
track"
II have had lucky Clothes" Petunis
insisted, "and unlucky clothes. Why
1 used to have a street gown that
simply loathed because every time
Wore it something unpleasant hap
pened. Positively, with it on 1 never
met a person l liked. 1t seemed tt
call forth the particular people Tc
run a mile to avoid. 1t brought al
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
Z, theory some one has expounded re-
Gently claims, and the people you
met responded with like currents OF
thought,
''The superstitions about the moon,
Petunia said, ARE as the sands on
the seashore. believe in seeing the
new moon clear. 1t always brings me
good luck"
Il know a very clever woman y
Verbena agreed, who says the man
in the moon is a magician. He can
turn pair of everyday mortals into
cooling turtle-doves in the twinkling
of an eye!' /
Il used to know a cynical old bache-
lor up in the mountains last summer, -
the other returned, who went around
warning every good-looking man who
registered at the hotel that every
moonlight-on-the-lake maiden wasn't
a breakfast beauty"
There's good sign to Offset every
bad one"-reaectively "All of US
couldn't be born under lucky stars,
SO 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 in it,
None of us really believe in those
old superstitions," the other replied
Here you and I, for instance, sit
combing our hair after dark"
What is your sign of that?"
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