Good Luck Charms.

Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 89

Good Luck Charms.

Hardly a woman who loves pretty trinkets is now without a good luck charm on her watch chain or necklace. One woman who has a collection of charm j pendants strung at intervals along her watch chain told about them. " New York is full of swastika crosses," 6he said, as she showed a square silver cross. " Mine came from Mexico. " This is Italian; a cjiarm against the evil eye." She twisted her chain to the next pendant, a little coral hand. Its thumb, third, and fourth fingens were folded down over the palm. The index and little fingers were extended. "Italians believe that these little hands keep off the evil eye. " You can get hands'in any shop that makes a specialty of Italian jewellery. I know a woman who has a n-ecklaoe chain hung with a row of them. "' Here' 6 a lucky charm from our own South, a hare's foot mounted in silver. " China is- all for the elephant as a lucky charm. In the Oriental shops there is no end to the array of pendant elephant charms. " Most of them come in ivory, but there are also many in coral, crystal, amethyst, jade, and chrygoprase. In many of the charms the eyes of the elephant are set with tiny sparkling gems. "It is hard to know where to stop when one tries to choose a charm from among the many fascinating ones made of jade^—the Chinese lucky stone. As it is the stone itself that brings good luck great scope in designs opens for the charm maker. I chose this sprightly flounder fish curled into a circle, and I couldn't resist this little squat idol, or this group of the three mystic monkeys —see no evil, bear no evil, speak no evil. One monkey is blindfolded, the other clasps his ears, the third has his finger to his lip. '' Four-leaved clovers enclosed in crystal make popular charms. You can have the , four-leafed clover you are lucky enough to find yourself mounted in this way. The crystal may be rimmed with silver or gold."—New York Sun.