, 1921-12-29
New qear's
Lore

HNSTN On New Years eve while
lEEH4V the clock is striking II re-
peat three times: Good st.
Anne. good st. Anne, send me a man
as fast as you cam and you will be en-
gagged within the year.
Spend on New Year, spend all the
year.
The Chinese say that II a man sits
up for ten years in succession and
sees the new year come in he will
have a long life.
1t is unlucky to refuse a beggar any
ching On New Years day, or to refuse
a request of any kind.
1t is lucky to rise early on New
Tears morning.
If the first carol singer who comes
TO 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. 1t will bring luck to
the house for a year.
When the wind blows on New Years
night, it is a sign of pestilence.
If your first caller on New Years
lay is a male, you will have good luck
and many friends; If a female, bad
luck and few friends.
The Chinese think New Years day
is the luckiest of the year.
If 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
nf tha ona .ro
1t brings good luck to place a 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
pockets, you will have a hard time get
ting what money you want during the
year.
1t Is an old Dutch superstition that
If you want to marry the girl you love,
your voice must be the first one she
hears and your face the first she sees
on New Years morning.
Superstitious folk consider it~impor-
tant to notice whom you meet the first
thing on New Years day. If it is a
man, you will have good luck, If a
woman, bad luck; If a priest, you will
die within a year; II 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 1 1t will
freeze on April /.
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 to your bedroom, blow out the
lamp. open your book, and mark a
hymn Tin the dark. put 1t under your
pillow, and sleep on It. Next morning
read the hymn. and 1t will Indicate
the events Of the year.
II is unlucky to have clothes hang
Ing on the line when the 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 all the visiting cards that
have been received throughout the
year on January L. If you keep them
from year to- year you will have bad
luck.
II you have not provided yourself
with a calendar before the New Year
comes In you will be behind hand In
all your undertakings during the year.
In Japan oranges are hung up on
New Years day as a charm to insure
the long life OF the family.
The Chinese believe It bad luck TO
pay all OF outstanding accounts on the
last Of the year and begin fresh and
straight on New Years day.
Just before midnight on New Years
eve the Chinese put on new or clean
garments, so as to enter the new year
purely. and thus gain good fortune to
themselves.
On New Years night II was an old
Welsh custom with the wise and cour-
ageous old men OF the parish to sit
up all night In the church porch. On
that night, It was said, a voice. eman-
ating from beneath the altar table.
pronounced the names OF those WHIT
should die within the coming year.
Your conduct on New Years day Is
a forerunner OF your conduct all the