The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-24
HOW TO FIND LUCKY DAYS.
Queer Ways the Superstitious Have for
Determining Good and Bad Fortune.

Who has not observed that there are
days-worse luck, many Of them!-
when everything goes wrong? Again,
who can not recall days when all
things go just as they should?
Donnetta Ragno, who lives in Null
berry Bend, knows all about lucky and
unlucky days, and employs many odd.
unreasonable methods to adjust her
life accordingly. She is also frankly
eye, of meeting cross-eyed person,
and Of many other things which to her
indicate danger which has not yet
risen above the horizon of her life.
She avoids what she believes they por-
tend IL she can, and if she can not she
devoutly crosses herself and implores
protection from higher power.
At the far swing Of the social PEN
dulum members of the Colony club
seemingly harmless things which are
supposed to open the door to dangers
they do not see, any more than would
Donnetta Ragno, and they, too. be-
lieve in lucky and unlucky days. In
little incident:
A few friends were drinking togeth-
er in one of the tearooms of the club
house when one Of the number asked
the woman sitting beside her if she
had heard Of the postponement of the
marriage of a certain young woman.
"It can not be possible" exclaimed
she who was addressed. that Muriel
the wedding invitations are out. I
have seen them. CHANGED to be
ordering some stationery when she
and her mother were looking at the
proofs and she showed them to me-
Eyes, the invitations were printed,
but fortunately none had been sent. for
when Muriel discovered that the date
of the wedding was an unlucky day,
in fact especially unlucky for both
herself and Laurence, nothing could
have induced her to be married as
they had planned. She had the invi-
tations destroyed. and new cards are
being printed. The wedding is now
set for early December"
When asked how the prospective
bridegroom took this evidence OF
superstition on the part of his lady,
love, the young woman who was wise
in the matter assured her Questioner
that men were every bit as credulous
as women, though not many of them
would admit 1t. In this instance the
young man helped to find date which
would insure good luck by going to an
infallible front and coins much cash
by giving out such information in
typewriter. legal looking, documen-
tary form.
Thus superstition rules in spite Of
social status. The great difference is
that the educated are apt to conceal
while the ignorant frankly declare
their beliefs.
Recently at small informal dinner,
where all this was being discussed,
man who has delved rather deeply
into matters of this sort asserted with
the positiveness of conviction that he
had found indicators which to GER
tain extent give such foreknowledge
as had the wise man who was evident
| " in Solomon's mind when he said he
saw danger afar off.
For one thing, this man stated he
| had never known of an undertaking
| begun in the old of the moon which
progressed to speedy, easy and pro-
nounced success. Furthermore, he
said. there was a way to determine
which days are lucky and which the
reverse that had not only stood the
test of time, but had been verified re-
peatedfy in his own experience.
| The directions he gave for finding
DAYS which are lucky and those which
are not are as follows: First note the
| day of the full moon. This may be
| found in any almanac.
Count the days from the date of the
full moon until the end of the month.