COINCIDENCES.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13411, 8 May 1912, Page 3

COINCIDENCES.

Interested by the curious speculations which Leap Year Day births have inspired, Mrs. Swallow, widow of i.i.6 rector of Weston Pavel, in Northamptonshire, of which living she is the patron, wrote to tho "Daily Mail" n-tvr turning a strange circumstances ni-lur career—that of an extraordinary mjrjuenro of sevens. Mrs. Swallow i< i-. w on a visit to tho vicar of St. l'.uil's West Smobhwick, Birmingham, a>. 1 at tho vicarage she told the story.

"I am", she said, "the seventh child of a seventh child of a seventh child. I was born on the - seventh day of iho seventh month of the year. My Lirband, the Rev. William Swallow, had seven letters in each of his names. V- y Christian name, Amelia,, unfortunately falls just short of maintaining tho sequence. Quite without design on cir part, any engagement ring bore the words "for ever," which contain seven letters. On my twenty-first birthday I received two or three rings ii-. presents; by the purest coincidence each was set with seven stones. I was married in a year of my ago which represented a multiple of seven.

. "It was then noticed —and tin's was tho first time that the persistence of seven as my lucky number impressed me — that both the Christian names and the surnames of all the witnesses to my marriage certificate contained seven letters. After our marriage we went to lire in Durham, which is built on seven hills, and is famous for seven historic churches. At the first service which we attended ia tho. cathedral Canon Farrar preached on the 'The seven golden candlesticks.'

\ "I wish I could pursue the sequence •and say I was a mother of seyen, but as a matter of sober history my family is confined to two big boys, both of whom are going into the church.

"I suppose we all have a bit of superstition in us. My own fancy was—l like to indulge it—that my lucky number had its influence- in endowing me with my good luck in life. In every enterprise I took I was successful. And the greatest luck of my life, transcending all material doings, liar, been my supremely happy, domestic existence. In my 'husband's days wo had tho merriest homo on earth."