The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-01-05
SUPERSTITION.
Nearly Everybody Has Some Kind
OF A HO0d0O

A good many wise men argue that
superstitution is absurd and unworthy
of noticing by human beings; but
every one of us know better, and the
wise men at times feel uncomfortable
if they see the new moon over their
left shoulder, or inadvertently walk
under a leaning ladder, and they also
know full we'll, but will not admit it,
that some evil is going to happen if a
dog sits round in the dark and howls.
One of the old time-honored super
stitions is to the effect that if things
begin to go wrong on Monday morning
they will keep on doing so until the
week is completed, and everybody who
has lived long enough knows that this
is safe and sound rule. If you step
on tack when you get out of bed on
Friday morning you will be stepping
on hardware until the next Friday.
Married women should be very careful
about getting their husbands out of
bed early Monday morning to run the
washing machine, because they may
form the habit of running a machine
for other women, besides it will make
them cranky"
No doubt Friday is very unlucky
day. The Wise Guys have printed
bundles of stuff trying to prove the
contrary, but to no avail. The ship
that is launched on Friday will be a
Calamity Jane sure as you're foot
high, and will nnally founder with all
hands on board, or blow up; the man
who is hanged on Friday is bound to
encounter bad luck of some kind the
weekly papers that are printed on Fri
day will only have dead heads on its
subscription list and this is one reason
that the Glacier is published the day
before the fateful day.
Only few. days ago a Hood River
man refused to admit that there is
anything in superstitions, sat down to
his evening meal, when about thirty
pecks of plastering fell upon the table
from the ceiling and in the excitement
of the moment he dropped his fork
upon the floor. Everybody knows that
that means bad luck, his wife was
troubled and insisted that some kind
of bad luck was going to. happen, but
the husband scotfed at the idea. Three
or four days went by, and no misfor-
tune came, the man indulged in ribald
jests, and even the wife began to fall
ter in her belief when grief arrived.
A letter came from the mans mother
in-law announcing that herself, three
children and spaniel pup would ar
rive in few days on protracted visit |
Just few days ago man went to
the postofice and rented a box and |
gave the lady clerk distinctly to under
stand that he would have none with |
l3 attachment. Whereupon the young
lady said she thought 13 was an un-
lucky number. because last summer !
she went on visit and was given a
No. 13 Pullman berth and was sick
every hour that she was on the train
and that she knew full we'll that No.
l3 caused all her troubles. So you see
No. 13 is unlucky as we'll as Friday,
and peop e should watch and when the
18th day of the month and Friday
come on the same day, they should be
very careful what they do.
1t is waste of time to argue
against superstitions and hoodoos for
people will continue to believe in
them, no matter what you say. Your
time might be more protitably spent in
cleaning up the yard, or digging holes
in the ground, in order that govern
ment seeds may be planted when the
sign is right; and the matter of the
sign being right is another superstition
that people hold onto like grim death
to a niger.