Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-13
FRIDAY, THE Thirteenth,
LAUDED BY PHILOSOPHER
Flouts Superstition by Wearing
Pearl Pin, Kicking Cat and
Walking Under Three Ladders.

"What day of the week is it?' asked
a contentious man this morning, craft
lily executing a flank movement on his
unsuspecting friend.
Friday" replied the other. What
Off
What day of the month is it,: asked
the contentious one, rapidly rolling up
the enemy's left.
The 18th. we'll
'Friday the 18TH" triumphantly deto-
mated the contentious man, sweeping
the enemy trenches with one whitening
fire., To-day, if I have not misjudged
the temper of the American people, is
that day of days held in awe through
out the United States. Today all ques-
tons of German diplomacy and non-di-
plomacy, Mexican intervention and
non Intervention. peace = at any price
and war for-the- asking. jitney buses
into the background and stay there
until the witching hour of night when
churchyards yawn and go to sleep
again. ] suppose.
TO-DAY. in the mind Of the probe
,, tariat. there is but one burning ques-
German friends would exclaim, it is
here. This is the fateful day when
everything is supposed to go wrong.
wherein every right thing is to slip UP
somehow, and nothing is to prosper.
This is the day when the nation is
supposed to stop travelling, according
to our wives. who defiantly refuse to
begin a journey on Friday the 18th
To hear our wives and her female rela-
tiy.ss talk. you would think the rail-
roads stopped running trains today
and that no engines puffed anywhere
within the borders of this great coun-
try. Trains are run now as usual
and carry their usual quota of trav-
travelling men and others who scott at
the great American hoodoo. Mamma
and little Jennie and all the rest of the
family are travelling today the same
as usual.
Il ask you, in all solemnity. who ever
heard of anything really unfortunate
happening to anybody on Friday the
18th? Myself. I have uniformly found
tinguished from any other day in any
manner whatsoever.
whats the matter with the number
10? dozen has always been account
ed a good thing. and why should the
addition of one make it any the less?
This fallacy about the number 10 arose
in the mind of man, and only in the
mind of man is the number in bad.
Nothing is either good or bad but
thinking makes it So declared the
it's a good old number. and the world
has slandered it long enough.
Wherefore, if Friday is good day
and 10 is a good number, as have just
proved, why should not the addition of
two good things result in good COM
bination? Friday the 18th ought to be
the luckiest day in the year, AS for
me, when my wife told me this morn,
ing that today was Friday the 18th |
put on my pearl stickpin. kicked a
black cat out of the front yard and
walked under three ladders on my way
down town. Good old day. Friday the
18th"
Today is Friday, August 13.
1t is the 224th day from the begin
ming. of the year and the 14Oth from
the end-add the numerals: IL:
August has thirty-one days-th1rteen
backward.
, August is the eighth month from the
first Of the year. the fifth month from
the end; add again and another thir-
teen appears.
Safety first-watch your step!