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Show Brides Clin? to Old Beliefs About Luck Wedding superstitions are dying out very slowly, according to a British authority au-thority on matrimonial problems. Although the superstitious bride Is now the exception rather than the rule, the question of lucky or unlucky hours, days or months still holds a place in the mind of many a young woman contemplating marriage, he said. May Is usually a lean mdnth for weddings, and there are couples who hesitate to get married oa Friday. Others have a dread of the 13th of the month. More remarkable still Is the fact that one o'clock the thirteenth hour Is very rarely chosen for the wedding wed-ding ceremony. Green which, worn as an emerald, is believed to be a talisman against evil was long viewed with disfavor as a portion of the wedding dress. In recent years. It has been used more frequently. Itccently, a prospective bride stumbled stum-bled on the doorstep while about to enter a register office. Had she actually actual-ly fallen there Is little doubt that the ceremony, which was taking place on a Friday, would have had to be postponed post-poned till a more propitious time. |