Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-06
Are You
Superstitious2
AFRO You one OF Those Girls
who visit Fortune Toliorai for
Advice in Lover.
by BEATRICE FAIRFAN


DO you torture Yourself with sisrss
ognons and predictiohs2 DO you turn
hack w.rn a black cat CROSSES S-Dur path.
and do wa throw a. pinch. Of sale ovc''
your icft pkonlaor after spiltng- sorse.
and prepare for company when q roostey
crowsf
Then you arc afraid of your shadow
Having. no real Worries or troubles you
SGT about to build Up some ON the say
inss Of some toothleas. old dame who sat
in n chimney corner centuries ago and
tsllsod ike n child. You are supetstitious.
and the stporstitieus man or woman
never Eets anywhere In this. world be
cause he or she begins every day's jour
ney weighted down with a burden Of
slsns. omens and predictions. II Is the
handicap OF the heaviest Of all burdens
for one who believes In bad luck may
never so forth and have good.
| ViVien writes "a friend Of mine
wishes me to be her bridesmaid. Now
hsvc had that honor twice before. and.
while not fuperstitous n don't care 20
take unnecessary chances in remaifips
an old maid. Three times a bridesmaid
never bride Isa there anythinE in the
sayingq' At~st ta
! A Much Troubled Girl asks; u spi. a
] poor working girl. and am about 10 l1e
married. have a new. black. serge dress.
which ] have never worn, and as can't
afford to set new dress 1 thought to be.
married. n thit. 13ut my friends say Il
will Trims lad luck. They thinlS it would
be hettcr fof me TO set another dress.
even though ! would have 60 go in debt
FOR Il. What rhali doT"
! n was enEa sod. 10 be married. writes
a. woeslegone- man. to the sweetest girl
that ever lived. We had been engaged
three months when one day she consulted
n fortune teller who told her abe was en-
gaged 10 married man.. proved 20
her that it was not the truth, and for a
time all went we'll Then again she con-
suited y fortune teller who told hof 10
beware Of a lover who had q wife. srd
she thinks that.is 7. and has broken tho
engagement. 1 have proved to the satss-
faction OF her family aud friends that
newer had ~ wife, and am of good char
acter but abe. believes THE fortune tolles-
anu won't bollove me. My heart Is
broken.
J ira girl 10 left a. spinster the number
of tlrnes she has been bridesmaid Is not
rerponEiuie for lier conditions + ana SUR
that % per cent Of spinsters warr. npvnr
I bridesmaids az all and equally suEa thl,f
/ tho. cfiensr siri offieiAtes in such ea.
1 nacity the hotter her chances Tor hsing i
i hisdo. Cor lsor venv nppearance az a. we'd
.dins ~ hound Il. make uomo rnni, psaitrr
that While she lnoks sweet an a, hrides;s.
attendant The would iook much sweet Il
! as a brldL. -s.Nss.
black dress fuf bridr Is-rpt IA en-.
hest tastr. IN solnber opivr say sot 81
more mournfsil occasons. hut II 'iafbeftrp
luck Ia wear a black dress that n pslu
( fof titan 60 wear a white dress whinh oD.'
} could not, afford. and for which one hail
20 go In dsht.s II Ia unfoftdn8te that the
superstitious DO not tremhle more hefotn
the had luck attaching to dehf and len
hotore some ifnaeinary worry. Debt "a
I real had luck "A black wsdding gown hhs
no bad hicl attached eNcept that whici
Is maglnafg
n a girlis 50 silk SHE win let a fortune
teller convince her that her lover n a
villain she is tho oily To DO worth, court
ing. she will, become the sort Of wife
WIN viii believe her husband guilty Of
avery orine la tlip' calendar beoauaa he
hanpened to look tho new moon szuars
in the face which. al every foolish per-
son knows. means open disgrsoe.'s
IL