The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-11
MULBERRY BEND SEERESS IS
AFRAID OF THE Evil EVE
Showing How the Lucky and Unluckv DAYS Are &c.
Iected by the Superstitious.

chen tNtIItillHS SUES NIOllS =.
,,.in. who can not recall days when
LIN things go just as they should? A
Rago, vino lives in Null
t.rrv Bend, knows all about lucky
.r5 uniucky days and employs many
IA unreasonable methods to adjust
NJ, life accordingly. She is also
r. rkIv and demOnstratively afraid of
.b. evil eve, o Injecting a crOSs-eyed
p.rsen. and of many other things,
ubieh TO her indicate danger which
has not Yet risen above the horizon
If her life. She avoids what n be-
T.ees they portend, if she can, and if
.he cannot she ~devoutly crosses her
snlt and implores protection from a
higher power.
If the far swing of social pendu-
i,m members of the Colony club will
NOT wiss through "a veil or do other
seemingly harmless things which are
-surpased to open the door to dangers
ny do not see, any more than would
ponnetta Ragno, and they 90 be-
lleve in lucky and unlucky days. In
confirmation of this assertion is this
little incident.
few friends were drinking tea
toaether within the precincts of n
If the tea rooms of the club house
when one Of the members asked the
woman sitting beside her if she had
heard of the postponement of the
marriage of a certain young woman.
III can not be possible" exclaimed
sne. who was addressed, that Fran
ees has broken her engagement. Why,
the wedding invitations are out. l
have seen them. l CHANGED to be or
d.ring some stationery, when she and
her mother were looking at the proofs,
and she showed them to me-
Changes Wedding Day.
Yes. the invitations were printed,
but fortunately none had been sdnt,
for whcn Frances discovered hat the
date of the wedding was an unlucky
day. in fact. especially unlucky for
Doth herself and Jack, nothing could
have induced her to be married aS
they had planned. h had the inNi-
iations destroyed and new ones are
being printed. The wedding is now
set for early April
When asked how the prospective
bridegroom took this evidence of SUI
pcrstitiOn on the part of his ladylove,
the young woman who was wise III
The matter, assured her Qu~eStloneT
that men were every bit as credulOus
as women, though not many of Their
would admit it. In this instance the
young man helped to find a date
which would insure good luck by go
Ing 10 an a~strologer woman who. puts
up an infallible front, and coins much
cash by giving out such information
in typewriter legal-loOking documen'
tary form.
Thus superstit ion rules in spite o
social status. The great difference i
that the educated are apt to conceal
while the ignorant frankly declare
their beliefs.
Recently at a small informal din
ncr. where all this was being dis
cuSsed, "A man who has delved rathe
deeply into matters of this sort as
serted with the p~ositiveness of con
Nietion that he had found indicator
which TO "a certain extent give sucl
f"reknowledge as had the wise ma
Nho was evident in SOlOmon's min
when lie said he saw danger afar oil
Don't Begin ON Old of Moon.
For one thing this man stated h
has never known of an undertaken
begun in the old of the moon whic
progressed so speedy, easy and pro
nounced success. furthermore, h
said there was a way to determin
which days are lucky n which tn
reverse that had not only stood tn
test of time, but had been verified j
MS own experience.
The directions ne gave for findin
GAYS which are lucky and those whic
are not are as follows: First note tn
Date of the full moon. This may
I'und in any almanac or calendar.
count the days from the date of tf
iull moor until the end of the mont
Then multiply the whole number I
The days in the month by the, numb
OF days from the full of the moon III
III the end of the month, and fro
TINS result the lucky days can be a
certalned. For example, the
lotl IN January of this year on II
IND. AS January has 81 days, II
number of days from the full of tt
moon until the end of the month
hhe. Multiply the number of da.
III January by nine and the result
~. This indicates that January
and 3 are the lucky days in Il
month.
Finding the Lucky Day.
AEain suppOsing the. number o
s",hed by multiplying the date of t
tou moon by the remainder obtain'
ny suhtractinG that date from t
whole number of days in the mon