The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-12-29

TIFNXIUN GEAR lllulcateS prosperous
NdSxJEN year.
H1HyI1N On New Years eve while
QlA4STAA,N the clock is striking T. re-
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 a long life.
1t is unlucky to refuse a beggar any
thing on New Years day, or to refuse
a request Of any kind.
1t is lucky to rise early on New
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, it will bring luck to
the house for a year.
When the wind blows on New Years
night 1t is a 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 luckiesl of the year.
If you wash clothes on New Years day,
Turn your pillow at midnight Of the
'1st o, s,."cember and you will dream
of tie u you are to marry.
1t bri|,s 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.
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 1t Is a
man, you will have good luck, If a
woman, bad luck; If priest, you will
die within a 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 1 1t will
freeze on April 1.
Feed the birds we'll on New Years
morning by placing sheaf Of wheat
or barley or some bread outside youl
house, then good luck will attend you
and good crops and prosperity come t
you during the whole year.
On New Years eve take your hymn
book to your bedroom, blow out thu
lamp, open your book, and mark {
hymn Tin the dark), put it under you
pillow, and sleep on 1t. 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 |
horn.
Cook cabbage on New Years da,
and you will have good luck all tn
year.
Decorated apples stuck on thre
skewers 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 I. If you keep ther
from year to year you will have ba
! luck.
If you have not provided yourself
with calendar before the New Yea
comes in you will be behind hand
all your undertakings during the yea
In Japan oranges are hung up 0
New Years day as a charm to insur
: the long life of the family.
: The Chinese believe it bad luck
= 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 clea
o garments, 50 as to enter the new yes
purely, and thus gain good fortune
- themselves.
- On New Years night It was an o.
4 Welsh custom with the wise and c0u
q ageous old men Of the parish to S
a up all night in the church porch. G
h that night, 1t was said, a voice, ema
n ating from beneath the altar tabl
= pronounced the names of those wi
70 should die within the coming year.
, Your conduct on New Years day
- fOrerunner Of your conduct all Il
70 year.