The Pulaskian., 1921-12-29


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 peat three times: Good St. Anne good St. Anne, send me a 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.
 It is unlucly to refuse beggar any thing on New Years day, or to refuse request of any kind.
 It is lucky to rise early on New Tears morning.
 If the first carol singer who comes so 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 year. When the wind blows on New Years night, it is sign of pestilence.
 If your first caller on New Years day is male, you will have good luck and many friends; if 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'n be sure to wash friend away.
 Turn your pillow at midnight of the 81st of December and you will dream of the one you are to marry.
 It 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 hard time get ting what money you want during the year.
 It 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 priest, you will die within year; if 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 i it will freeze on April 1.
 Feed the birds well 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 hymn Gin the dark, put it under your pillow, and sleep on it. Next morning read the hymn, and it will indicate the events of the year.
 It 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 hm A.. year on January 1. If you keep them from year to year you will have bad luck.
 If you have not provided yourself with 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 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 it 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, voice, eman- ating from beneath the altar table, pronounced the names of those who should die within the coming year.
 Your conduct on New Years day is a forerunner of your conduct all the year.