The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-04
& BEGG

exposed to local cold demons while
waiting for it.
Palmistry is another practice which
seems to have a very strong hold on
US. 90 to almost n church bazaar
or social and you will find a fortune
telling booth which %conceals a most
attractive witch willing to interpret
the lines in your hand after her own
1alr palm has been crossed with sill
Yer. To note the superstitious young
men impatiently crowding around
these booths to have their palms held
and read backs up the fact that there
Is not much difference in the makeup
OF men from Adams day to this.
A whole book might be written ON
card playing superstitions.
To break a looking glass IL about
the worst thing that can happen in
the superstitiOuS calendar. Some say
YOU will have i'll fortune for seven
years afterward. and others that it
presages the loss Of our best friend.
Inc last explanation seems most plau-
sible. especially II the looking glass
is an expensive one and belongs to
your best friend.
Inc falling of pictures from the
walls rs a sign not to be sneezed at
by any means. and the amount Of i'll
fortune thai can he heaped up by an
occurrence like this lis astonishing, hs
the following incident plainly shows:
a mar once had q portrait of an an
cestor Of whom he was very. proud,
lie had selected this ancestor with
particular care from among the mil
lions of others he possessed, whose
records would not stand too much
light, and the portrait. heavily frsm-
ed, hung in Il place of honor directly
over the bed in the apartments of the
descendant.
One cold night the ancestor got
lonesome and descended socially into
the bed with his descendant, who lay
many nights thereafter on q. hospital
cot and ran up enosmous doctor bills.
The victim Of this ancestral misllap
had his superstition so aroused that
since then he will not even use q bed
with a ~headboard. and tho wall above
him is bare, even to the extreme Of
not being papercd.
Dire things are said to he in store
for he who stumbIes or falls down.
but Julius Caesar got around this sup
erstition in a very canny manner
when he grabbed Africa during one
OF his little wa games He left his
ship and . a boat with the inten-
ton of coming ashore, taking posses
sion of everything, and surfing Il sa-
loon 80 that politics might he got un-
der way. The galley cool had pack
ed O neat lunch basket for him, and
this was sitting right in tho bow OF
the rowboat, so when julius sprang
out In the graceful manner he used
on such occasions his toe caught in
the handle Of the basket, and instead
of grabbing Africa .fguratively nc
grabbed it literally.
A great wailing started to go I'D
from the Threats Of his associates in
the enterprise. but Julius was equal
to the occasion, and even while yet
balancing on m ear he managed to
spit out enough sand to roar out in a
great stage voice: THUS 1 take pos
session of thee. Africa!" The walls
changed to a cheering encore, but
Julius Caesar would not do 1t again.
Not long g of our leading
fnancters tripped and fell while car
rying a heavily laden collection plate
down the aisle of his favorite church.
Had any of the coin rolled off the
plate this would have been q bad sign
for him, but, true to habit. his first
thought was for the cash, and he held
1t high at the risk of hts shin bones,
and not a penny escaped to break his
record.
1t is without question bad luck to
! fall or even jump from very high
places. and it has been proved time