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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 575, 29 May 1925, Page 2

llorSKW'l YKS’ ST PF.HSTITIOX. When. she lays I lie tabic lor dinner In i' !lie]-; i.s intimately councilcd with Ikt silver and cutlery. II slit' 1 1 oul<l ahsi’iitly-mindedly Jay two teaspoons in (lie same saucer she may expect, Lu hear ol' a wedding be'lot'e (lie year is out. Crossed knives will involve her in a quarrel, and a dt upped Fork is a sign that a woman has evil designs upon her. The act of dropping a spoon i.s Fraught wil.li significance, lor if it is teaspoon, the postman’s whistle will shortly he heard; hut should a teaspoon lull to the ground a ha by is coining to the house. IF a knife drops, the housewife must either pick it up her.selF and suffer a disappointment, or leave it where it’ Jails until someone picks it up and receives a surprise. Hut some tolk says that the dropping of a knife signifies the visit of a man, fall or short, according to the size of the knife dropped. Provided the visitor is not to be a debt col Joe- j to*, the last superstiton i.s certainly i the more agreeable one to adopt. j