Show Another Unlucky Cluli The Order of the Opal Is new society organized ostensibly as Thirteen clubs and The Salt Spillers to challenge ill luck and demonstrate how easily it maybe may-be bullied when deliberately faced The new club lias much the same rites as other clubs of its kind It meets on Friday Fri-day Its rooms are decorated with peacock pea-cock feathers The members make a point of walking under ladders eating thirteen at table going and coming on Friday and spilling salt It is not said that they break mirrors with deliberation but anybody who does break a mirror Is held in great consideration by the other members The opal is the badge of membership mem-bership and is of course put forth on all occasions It is urged however that all these efforts to overthrow superstition fail of their purpose inasmuch as ill luck cannot can-not be invited The element of chance is absolutely necessary to its success An even more difficult element to be removed Is the pride and pleasure which most people take in their superstitions A superstition to an actress is only less valuable than her jewels To other people peo-ple superstitions are of importance in biographical sketches and sketches of character now so popular in current weekllesNew York Evening Sun I |