| Show I Bad Luck I hopped out of bed on the wrong foot I yesterday and Bad luck 1 Just so I am not superstitious but I have noticed that as soon as a person gets in the habit of doing things in a certain set fashion anything that tends to changer i o change-r disturb that fashion is likely to upset a i I mans equilibrium In my case it makes i i mo nervous and in a degree foreboding You know when a sleight of hand man J I I starts to do a trick and for some reason I fails he has to begin all over again He cannot go on from where he failed because his muscles have been trained to act in a 1 certain definite order to depart from which L means inability to accomplish the feat in I question Now I fancy it is much the same with our daily lives We acquire the habit of doing a thing thus and so and if for any reason we are obliged to depart from our accustomed method we do not feel right about ita suggestion of what physicians I call hyper st hesia Of course I know that hopping out of ben o be-n one foot or the other is no criterion for a change of luck yet as said before habit makes the sum total of our lives and a I violation of the little habits of daily life leads us to look quite at unawares for happenings occurrences etc out of the ordinary We actually begin to look for something going wrong and it is an easy deduction thus to associate Chat C-hat otherwise are as distant as the east in i fromthevest Hence ourfund of superstitions super-stitions ill omens etc etcof which hopping hop-ping out of bed on the wrong foot is a fair illustration DeiroitFree Press |
