The Donaldsonville chief., 1921-12-31

EIE&&SI On New Years eve while
EIIAVIEtIA the clock is striking l. re-
peat three times: Good 81
Anne: good st. Anne, send me 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 If man sits
up for ten years in succession anu
sees the new year come in he. VIII
have a long life.
It IS unlucky to refuse beggar any
thing on New Years day, or to refuse
a request of any kind.
It Is lucky to rise early on Ne"
Years 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 year.
When the wind blows on New Years
night, it is a sign Of pestilence.
If your first caller on New Years
day is male, you will have good luck
and many friends; if q female, BAD
luck 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 friend away.
Turn your pillow at midnight OF the
S1st of December and you will dream
Of the one you are to marry.
1t brings good luck to place piece
Of money on the window on New
Years eve.
II 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 8
man, you will have good luck, if a
woman, bad luck if 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
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partner.
If ice melts on January l 1t will
freeze on April I.
Feed the birds we'll on New Years
morning by placing 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.
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
have been received throughout the
year on January 1. II you keep then
from year to year you viii nave ba6
luck.
If you have not provided yourself
with a calendar before the New Yeal
comes In you will be behind hand III
all your undertakings during the year
In Japan oranges are hung up OF
New Years day as charm to insure
the long life Of the family.
The Chinese believe it bad luck t.
pay all of outstanding accounts on tn
last Of the year and begin fresh an.
straight on New Years day.
Just before midnight on New Year
eve the Chinese put on new or cleal
garments, so as to enter the new yea
purely, and thus gain good fortune t.
themselves.
On New Years night it was an ol,
Welsh custom with the wise and cour
ageous old" men Of the parish to 81
up all night in the church porch. o.
that night, it was said, 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 1
forerunner of your condue* all tn
year.