The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-12-30

GsSGj the clock Is striking u re-
peat three times: Good ST.
Anne. good ST. Anne. send me a man
As fast as you can" and you win be en-
gagged within the year.
Spend on New Year, spend all the
sear.
The Chinese say that II a man sits
Up for ten years In succession and
sees the new year come in he will
ave long life.
II is unlucky to refuse a beggar any
hing on New Years day, or to refuse
I request Of any kind.
II is lucky to rise early on New
tear's morning.
If the first carol singer who comes
% the door on New Years morning Is
brought In at the front door, taken
Ill through the house, and let out at
the back door. 1t will bring luck to
'he house for a year.
When the wind blows on New Years
light, II is sign of pestilence.
If your first caller on New Years
lay is a male, you will have good luck
and many friends; IL female, bad
iuck and few friends.
The Chinese think New Years day
8 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
31st of December and you will dream
Of the one you are to marry.
1t brings good luck to place a 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
ring what money you want during the
year.
1t is an old Dutch superstition thai
If you want to marry the girl you love
your voice must be the first one shs
hears and your face the first she see,
IN New Years msrning.
Superstitious folk consider it impor
.ant to notice whom you meet the frs
thing on New Years day. If it Is
man. you will have good luck. If ,
woman. bad luck; If priest, you will
die within year; If policeman. you
will have litigation.
The first person of the opposite Sc,
you meet on New Years day will bea
the Christian name of your futur
partner.
If ice melts on January l it will
reeze on April 1.
Feed the birds well on New Year
morning by placing a sheaf of whea
Jr barley or some bread outside you
house, then good luck will attend you
md good crops and prosperity come t,
fou during the whole year.
On New Years eve take your hymn
book to your bedroom, blow out tn
amp, open your book, and mark
lymn Tin the dark), put it under you
,illow. and sleep on it. Next morning
'ead the hymn, and it will indicat
he events of the year.
1t is unlucky to have clothes hang
.ng on the line when the New Year /
,Orn.
Cook cabbage on New Years da
md you will have good luck all tn
gear.
Decorated apples stuck on thre
>kewerS are exchanged for luck O
New Years day in Great Britain.
Burn all the visiting cards tina
have been received throughout tn
year on January 1. II you keep theI
from year to year you will have ba
luck.
II you have not provided yourse
with a calendar before the New Yea
zones in you will be behind hand |
all your undertakings during the yea
In Japan oranges are hung I'D O
New Years day as a charm to insu,
the long life Of the family.
The Chinese believe 1t bad luck {
pay all Of outstanding accounts on IL
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 clea
garments, so as to enter the new yet
purely. and thus gain good fortune
themselves.
On New Years night 1t was an o.
Welsh custom with the wise and cou
ageous old men Of the parish to s
up all night In the church porch.
that night, It was said, voice, emal
! ating from beneath the altar tabl
pronounced the names of those wi
should die within the coming year.
Your conduct on New Years day
forerunner of your conduct all Il