SUNNY SIDE OF SUPERSTITION.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 1204, 22 January 1929, Page 3

SUNNY SIDE OF SUPERSTITION.

♦ ■......- That there is anything genial, cheering, of therapeutical ly valuable about superstition may seem a tall statement. The adjective generally associated with it is "dark." Oil the contrary, there is something very brightening about a 'four-leaved clover. Who is not a little more of an optimist for picking up a horse-shoe? What lonely farmer's wife, stormbound on' a winter's afternoon, with unwelcome leisure on her hands but Ivels a little quickening of the pulse as she drops her scissors and beholds them sticking up m the carpet? or discovers that she has laid an extra plate at the table. Com party, signs are the commonest and most welcome of all superstitions. The scissors — the needle — the fork — the Saturday sneeze all inculcate hospitality, and reward it by an unexpected visitor. If the needle slants as if it stands up m the crack of the floor it. foretells a gentleman! Run, young daughters of the house and put a blue bow m your hair.