UNLUCKY MIRRORS CURIOUS WEDDING GIFTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 12

UNLUCKY MIRRORS

CURIOUS WEDDING GIFTS

It is not only in Greece that mirror superstitions survive. A great many English folk still adhere to tho belief that to break a mirror is to insure seven years of ill-luck; whilst in Scotland the same calamity is regarded as a portent of a death in the family. In the southwestern counties it is considered unlucky for a bride to look in a mirror on her weddiug <{ay—but the superstition must be strong indeed, one would think, to prevent a woman taking "one last look" at herself in the glass on that most important occasion of her life. Some folk, too, cover all mirrors in the presence of death, and believe that anyone looking in a glass in a house where a dead man lies will see the corpse lopking over the shoulder.

. » Mr. Roosevelt appears to have alarmed a Washington bride by sending her a rhinoceros tail as a wedding present. When Mr. Justice Ridley was married a still more unconventional gift figured among the wedding presents. An eccentric friend of the bride once" found her drawing a skull, and vowed that when she married he would give her a skeleton as a wedding present. This promise was not forgotten, and the day before the ceremony an oak box containing the skeleton of an. Austrian grenadier was delivered at the residence of tho future Lady Ridley, who, in order not to wound her old friend' 6 felines, allowed it to be displayed with her other gifts,