LUCK AND ILL-LUCK.
' Lots of people truly worry themselves about superstitioii, which can very easily bo explained away. The breaking of a mirror was considered unlucky, bbiiatise in the. days before mirrors^ were invented people saw their reflections in. streams and lakes,, 'and ibdke'i.l upctii them as a part of tlibinseivesj ■■'.;' ■; ■,'.;.. The origin Of .thb ladder supei;stition_ •belonged to the aayS of lynch law. Mfcif were hanged by tlie lilbb on a ladder if there were no treo.near, and anybody ;who was at the back of the ladder was' in danger of being suspected to be in league with the victim. Disaster hangs round tho number 13, not the place which it represents.- A guest in a hotel will sleep perfectly in the thirteenth room if only it is numbered 12 or 14. So in future wo won't worry, eh?
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 15
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