WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1666, 3 February 1904, Page 25

WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS

Stumbling upstairs indicates a wedding in-the home before the year is out. If a 'spinster or batehelor be inadvertently placed between a* married pair at the dinner table, he or she will be married before the year is out.^ If the wedding gown, after being completed, is put an before the time for the ceremony, the-marriage will never take place. K bride, to have good luck at lier wedding, must wear: Something old and something new. Something borrowed and something blue.

An odd superstition prevails in France which tells us that in a double wedding the bride who first leaves tne church will have a boy for her first child. Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.

A rhyme of husbands tells us the best months to choose for marriage:

A January husband will love none but

you, A February husband will be blest with shekels few; A Maircli husband storms sometimes like Maa’ch winds, An April husband’s quite changeable, you’ll find, A>husband wed in May is handsome: but

not wise, A husband wed in June to fame is bound

to riseA July husband’s gift is more of wealth

than sense, An August husband’s knowledge is something quite immense. September grooms are said to care for

ea/ting joys, October brings happiness without alloys. A November husband’s lev- >rows sometimes rather cold. . December brings forth fait: rnlness and gold. If a hen cackles as a bride crosses the threshold of her new home she will be a happy mother as well as a contented wife.