The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-01-11
NEW YEARS LORE

New Years night quiet and clear
indicates a prosperous year.
On New Years eve while the clock
is striking IL repeat three times
GOOD st. Anne, good st. Anne, send
me a man as fast as you cam" and
you will be engaged within the year
Spend on New Year, spend all the
year.
The Chinese say that if a man sits
up for ten years in succession and
sees the new year come in he will have
long life.
1t is unluclky to refuse a begger
anything on New Years day, or to re-
fuse a request of any kind.
| II is lucky to rise early on New
Years morning.
Z 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, 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 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 you 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 in the window on New
Years eve.
i If the first man you speak to on
New Years morning has his hands in |
his pockets, you will have hard time
getting what money you want during
The year.
1t is an old Dutch superstition that
f won want to marry the girl you love
your voice must be the first one she
hears and your face the first one she
sees on New Years morning.
Superstitious folk consider it i'm
proper to notice whom you meet the
irst thing on New Years day. If it
S man, you will have good luck, if
! woman, bad luck; if a priest, you
will die within a year; if policeman
you will have litigation.
The first person of the opposite sex
,ou meet on New Years day will bear
he Christian name of your future {
,artner.
If ice melts on. January it will /
reeze on April l.
Feed the birds well on New Years 1
morning by placing a sheaf of wheat
r barley or some bread outside your !
ouse, then good luck will attend you. ,
nd good crops and prosperity come [
0 you during the whole year. {
On New Years eve take your hymn '
ook to your bedroom, blow out the I
amp, open your book, and mark a t
ymn lin the dark, put it under your q
illow and sleep on it. Next morning {
cad the hymn, and it will indicate the L
vents of the year. '
1t is unlucky to have clothes hang |
lg on the line when the New Year [
; born. S
Cook cabbage on New Years day {
nd you will have good luck all the v
ear. 1t
Decorated apples stuck on three
lewers are exchanged for luck on
,ew Years day in Great Britain.
Burn all the visiting cards that have /,
cen received throughout the year on a
lnuary /. If you keep them from a
ear to year you will have had luck. Il
If you have not provided yourself t
it'll calender before the New Year S
,mes in you will be behind hand in il
I your undertakings during the year. n
In Japan oranges are hung up on S
ew Years day as a charm 10 insure u
le long life of the family. I,
The Chinese believe it bad luck to a
~ all outstanding accounts on the d
st of the year and begin fresh and I;
raight on New Years day. Il
Just before midnight on New Years b.
e the Chinese put on new or clean Il
lrments, so as TO enter the new year d