The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-30
Neu, uear's
Lore

Anne, good ST. Anne, send me man
as fast as you can." and you will be en-
gagged within the year.
Spend on New Year. spend all the
year.
The Chinese say that If man sits
up for ten years in succession and
sees the new year come in he will
have long life.
Ii is unlucky TO refuse q beggar any
thing on New Years day. or TO refuse
a request of any kind.
II Is lucky to rise early on New
Years morning.
If the first carol singer who comes
ia the door on New Years morning is
brought In at the front door. taken
all through the house, and let out at
the back door. IL will bring luck 10
the house for "A year.
When the wind blows on New Years
night. IL Is a sign of pestilence.
Ii your first caller on New Years
day Is male. you Will have good luck
and many friends; IL female. bad
tuck and few friends.
The Chinese think New Years day
is the luckiest of the year.
II you wash clothes on New Years day.
You'll be sure TO wash a friend away.
Turn your pillow at midnight of the
S1St of December and you will dream
of the one you are 10 marry.
II brings good luck To place q piece
OF money on the window on New
Years eve
If the first man you speak to on New
Years morning has his hands in his
packets. you will have hard time get
ting what money you want during the
year.
If you want to marry the girl you love-
your voice must be the first one she
hears and your face the first she secs
ON New Years morning.
SuperstitiOuS folk consider II impor-
tant 10 notice whom you meet the first
thing on New Years day If il is a
man. YOU will have good luck. II a
woman. bad luck IF a priest. you will
die within year; if a policeman. you
will have litigation.
The first person OF the opposite sex
you meet on New Years day will bear
the Christian name OF your future
partner.
If ice melts on January IL will
freeze on April 1
Feed the birds we'll ON New Years
morning by. placing a sheaf of wheat
or barley or some bread outside your
house. then good luck will attend you.
and good crops and prosperity come to
you during the whole year.
On New Years eve take your hymn
book 10 your bedroom. blow out the
lamp. open your book. and mark a
hymn Tin the dark. put II under your
pillow. and sleep on it. Next morning
read the hymn, and IL will indicate
the events Of the gear.
II is unmcky 10 have clothes hang
ing on the line when lie New Year is
born
Cook cabbage on New Years day
and you will have good luck all the
year.
Decorated apples stuck on three
skewers are exchanged for luck on
New Years day in Great Britain.
Burn al The, visiting cards that
have been received throughout the
year on January ]. If YOU keep them
from year TO year you will have bad
luck
II you have rot provided yourself
with q calendar Before the New Yeal
coneS IN won will he behind hand IL
all your undertakings during the year
In Jannn oranges are hung w oi
New Years day aS charm 20 inSur.
the long life 0f the family.
The Chinese believe IL bad luck 1,
/ pay MI ~ outstanding accounts On tn,
| last of the year and begin fresh anC
! straight on New Years day.
Inst before midnight on New Year.
eve the Chinese put OH new or clear
garments. seas To enter the new yea
purely. ard thus gain good fortune :,
| themselves.
! TN New Years night il WAS I'm OF
Welsh custom with the wise and cour
| ageous old men of the parish 70 81
up all night i'm the church porch. Or
| that night il was said q voice. eman
| ating from beneath the altar table
! pronounced the names Of those VIII,
should die within the coming year.
Your conduct on New Years day 4
a forerunner of your conduct all tn,
year.