THE WOULD TO-DAY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8850, 29 May 1914, Page 6

THE WOULD TO-DAY.

! "Guardian''Office, .•■>May 29, 1914. "My luck's right out 1" . "Just my luck !" "He's a lucky chap; everything lie touches, turns up trumps." Such are the remarks that one hears in the train, in the trams, on the streets, in fact, wherever men foregather. What a world of tragedy is summed up in the record of the blind belief in the elusive sprite (which is popularly supposed to be of tho v feminine gender) called "luck." Statesmen, warriors, authors, business men— the whole gamut of life's .human shuttles—have a . superstitious belief that their- careers have been affected, for good or ill, by some chance happenings, and, unmindful of the eternal law that every effect has a cause, attribute it to sheer hide." The. averaged man who .bets -oii horse races can quote chapter And ver.ie far actual "lucky" < or "unlucky" inveaiments plainly; determined by some apparently unexplainable incident. A chance expression heard amosg"t a babel of sound on the racecourse decided him to' back a horse caryhig a...saddle-cloth bearing a certain 'number, and though the animal was a rank outsider it "won in a canter." A word staring from a poster f on a hoarding has often enough been accepted as a- "straight tip," that invariably came off. But always, whether the results have been favourable or otherwise, the dominating factor has been "luck," and so they have been added to the long list of circumstances over which man has no control.