Evening star., 1916-04-23
Picked Up Here and There

Spring is here, and with the warm
weather, the sunshine and the flowers
the little ro-
Superstitions About mances planted
Weddings. round of balls
and skating parties this winter. ten
derly nourished and now in bud, will
soon burst into full bloom, says the
Seattle Times.
Many of US know engaged couples
who before the formal announcements
of their approaching nuptials were
made were married-but to different
persons. There have been weddings
on Christmas day, on the glorious
Fourth. on Thanksgiving day, and in
San Francisco there was one really
solemniZed on Decoration day. Those
superstitious guests who witnessed it
said. Il told you So when in a few
months the groom met an untimely
death in his mine in Mexico.
Ash Wednesday. with it's sackcloth
and ashes. fasting and praying. is
strange day for two persons to select
for the happiest day of their lives in
which to plight their troth. Yet it is
really true. in New York last year,
during the penitential season. society
doffed its sackcloth for day, shook
the ashes metaphorically from its hair
and attended one of the smarteSt we'd
dings of the season. And, contrary to
expectations. as far as known, the
couple are living happily ever after"
1t only goes to show that dates and
days are not essential to ones happ
ness. which might possibly depend on
quite irrelevant things.
The Pennsylvania Germans. who are
SuDerStltlOlS
any other people in this country. and
who have more ban 1000 maxims of
that tendency which they supposedly
follow, say:
IF two couples marry at the same
time one couple will be unhappy
Sunday is fortunate wedding day,
likewise Saturday.
Wear out your wedding garments
quickly and you will be wealthy.
ANY fond mother wish to marry on
daughter: Put peacock feathers in
your home.
1T Is bad luck for more than. one
person in a family TO marry within
the year"
Two business women whose work inn
pels them to mingle continually with
numbers OF men and
Are Bad Manners women were talking
about manners. says
the taSnlone the Baltimore Sun
DO YOU know" said the first, Il have
come to the conclusion that bad manners
are the fashion. The people with whom
/ am thrown have nearly without excep-
ton thoroughly indifferent manners. They
are brusque; they are disagreeable, and
they seem TO think it mark of breeding
to be absolutely devoid of polish. Their
&c I1y ha TO he
natural is sometimes to be repulsive.
Il have on occasion asked a perfectly
polite, harmless question in connection
with my work and been met actually by
abusive language.
The second business woman stared at
And l have just been thinking, she
said, that the Baltimoreans with whom
] come in contact have Just about the best
manners i have ever noticed. During a
year of work / have encountered exactly
one instance of rude ess except for this
isolated case I have met with nothing
but the most extreme consideration But
perhaps we don't come in contact with the
same people. / meet almost exclusively
business men and women.
And L. replied the first business
woman. meet the society men and
women of the city
THE exhibition of rudeness to
which was treated was from a prorni-
nent physician, amended the second
business woman, "A professional and not
business man. ! think perhaps the
business man or woman to be successful
must have good manners
And perhaps the man or woman who
rakes a profession of society must have
I'D manners to be successful deduced
S,e FIRST business woman, with 4 rather
WY smile
Nrs. Charles Drury entertained Tues
cay at beautiful luncheon in honor of
Mrs. NJ. Nc
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