Show miscellaneous ile ho comes she murmured joy illumined her lineaments linea ments ile he comes she would have hugged heibell but for her sleeves detroit hilbun 0 prospective tenant but we wish to keep a 1 I servant landlord I or of flat oh 01 very well I 1 awell will have an alcove painted on the wall I 1 of 0 the kitchen detroit tribune 1 I dont like very young bablis babies remarked Cru flIns 1 I prefer ern cm that way replied sill aln nicker id like to have all of 0 em cm stay too young to say smart things for their fathers to tell wash washington ing ton star dandil A thorn in the hand makes more difficulty faculty than fitly fifty on the bush somerville journal 0 miss did you know that all our family plate was sholun miss knicker knacker bockst yes yea I 1 heard your grandmother lost her false teeth new yok herald A tom must have hall had an awful cold when lie he became engaged B D why vl hy A because when one has a cold one has no taste Flie gende beaetter Dla Bla etler etter she I 1 dont believe you love me nt at all ile he why ethel id die tor for you she petulantly easy enough to say why dont you go and prove it harpers bazar I 1 always laid bald that jagson v come to the front aliat abat that worthless fellow AleS watters yep iles hes a bellboy in a hotel now syracuse Syia cuse post 0 1 I wonder who started that slang a about out getting it lit in tile the neck asked the tin curious boarder some man mail whole wife bought him a necktie at a bargain sale likely said the cheerful idiot indianapolis journal 0 alters allers seems to me sald ald the grocery oracle that ahat after ole jim 1311 wallop lias has put in sunday tellin tile biord that he Is in the orner yest rile ole cuss on earth lie puts in tile the rest of the week bryin to see are it if he kin kill live up to lt JouL journal Jo nal S t C II A av f 1 M 1 e 1 I 1 I 1 NY I 1 I 1 J vy II 11 r A i 1 1 I 1 i L 2 I 1 J I 1 i 04 I 1 X 0 t 1 I 1 I 1 li ill 11 I 1 41 4 V nv va gr 4 vida 41 W t VL it il VI i tip R il A tv alf 7 ill C 24 NT ge t i W I 1 I 1 f r I 1 ff A I 1 f I 1 IZ e I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ai J f CAL P II I 1 1 A X 0 S 1 9 I 1 I 1 J V lh R I 1 1 4 t gi i X 71 i 1 1 I 1 1 4 U MW M IW 1 k S I 1 i 1 I 1 ill 4 01 wa 5 1 I 1 1 I 1 W ad 41 M V 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 er j R I 1 J I 1 f 1 1 9 I 1 1 1 1 J 1 I 1 A 1 ain A VM VV copyright llo in i ty by Bac bachelier holier Jolin holmson bon catler cht ler A fancy for or the possession ind and continuous carrying about ot of trinkets of various kind hinds supposed to endow the possessor with good luck or at least with immunity aiom bad luck Is ii fur far more general than the world at barge has any idea of 0 there la 19 hardly a person living who lias has not some pet sl lilon lon and it Is 13 somewhat of on an enigma why the people are so abrail or danied to acknowledge it unconsciously ly even to ourselves ouri elves we ae have imbibed superstition from cail rainiest rai liest lest childhood it 0 d u until antil li it has haa become an established dished PA part rt 0 or t out our being the popular i idea that sailors I 1 I 1 a and it d sporting e men are arc the only I 1 I 1 ones one who abound I 1 with supers superstitions tl Is not by any ny means the truth this feeling also hall hai its place in n lie strongholds strong holds it if washington Was hinKl in ocleta oc lety indeed it exists there sailors are not the theis in quite as mark only ones ell degree decree as anywhere in this country it Is a universal falling failing when the president and mrs cleveland were in the elie first flush of h honeymoon n ol 01 there coin came to them from some unknown donor careful carefully packed in a little box fent cent through the ex picas a rabbits toot foot this the gen sender der bated ta ted was to be carried either by the president or M mrs r cleveland cleeland carefully in a compart compartment me in t ot of the pocketbook tills this fashion of 0 carrying a rabbits foot in the pocketbook Is very cry preva 1 lent few of the women of 0 washington aio aie without at least one rabbits toot foots while some have quite in array to use in case one should I 1 inadvertently n ad be lost it may be adad for the benefit ot of the uninitiated that to insure the most moat perfect luck the rabbit from which the foot Is talon should have been killed in a graveyard in tile the dark of the moon another talisman which mrs cleveland received about a year since was in the form of a tiny eskimo doll presented by the eskimo child who came to washington and was given an audience one morning in the blue room ot of tile the white house se where the cabinet took part in the amusing entertainment afforded by the child an and d its ciders this little image an ail exact miniature of an ail eskimo in native costume could readily be held in the palm ot of the hand and was given mrs cleveland to carry lit in a purse presented tor for that purpose and was mas supposed to impact all manner ot of benefits as well as immunity from harm ot of every nature mrs leland stanford has a fancy for carrying in her purse a tiny metal figure of 0 st pt joheph and the child given hr hor by one ot of her washington friends the superstition in this case is that the person who carries in the purse one of these figures will never be without money it would hardly seem likely even it if tile the little st joseph were left out of mrs st Stan anfor fords tra purse that elie ehe would lie be ar aenny any time without f funds there is also prevalent a cast iron superstition in regard to the he manner in which money s should auld lie be placed in the purse dills bills ot of any denomination must never be cramped any which way into a pocketbook but to insure luck must be carefully turner turned and folded toward ones sell self and aad then creased lengthwise tills this accomplished accomplish ed the superstition pers tillon Is that plenty and prosperity will follow 0 one ot of th the most gruesome of the superstitions entertained by washington women Is that ot of one of thi west end 4 residents who carries lit in her V 11 purse a tiny bit r of 0 the rope with 1 which Gul bulteau teat L was hung this Is always taken with her to poker and insure success ker parties lind and nt at cards Is s believed to east cast a coddon of luck about the possessor and insure success at cards mr darlah B e r 1 a h wilkins has a I 1 pet cupi superstition c station sti tion in r regard e gard t to 0 tho the name E emma m A his cifes name when lie he r goe 0 to I 1 a horse r race a c e it if 1 1 I 1 there is a horse running under that title lie he mill n I 1 II 11 lay a yager wager on it sooner than upon any of the well known fo fam the horse won korites the reason SO Is as 85 follows when he was a became engaged caged en young man ind and first he attended a horse race on oil the list was a perfectly unknown horse billed t to a run under the name tint ne ot of emma which especially interested him its as being that of ills his sweetheart the horte won and from that time forth foila mr wilkins has held to hs his bit ot of superstition buix in to ic gard card to ills his wires name 0 in like manner senator cahill call in E brice has a pet superstition in regard to a solid gom goll start pin which ho he wears almost continuously this Is in tho the design of an open sate sare W with ith a watch dos dog chained to one side and Is emblematical in some way of the first important ral rall I 1 rood deal in which he ha euc hered the I 1 new york magnates the chinese minister wears a jade ring that is s u p p used to 1 tiring oring him all t 1 p I 1 time rood good luck 46 e q g to such an extent Q that le ile ilai has secured one 0 of f 74 I 1 L A the same luck kit 4 21 i insuring at stones 1 for ills his wife W however 11 does 1 I I 1 not like her bus the chinese minister bund wear hers upon her thumb wears a but upon the jade ring bins middle linger finger of her left liand hand tills jade curiously set it n tho the mort moet massive fashion with awen ty y tour four carat gold invariably orma forms part ot of lull full drees regalia 0 making fa kinK a novena to st Aral anthony lony for a husband is 19 a popular superstition among ahe younger set in washington quite irrespective of the cacti faal that tile iho person pemon making the novena may not be of the roman catholic alib it was I 1 but a few icara ears back that the daughter of a well known retired tinny army officer did this ihla and immediately Nl iche ille tho the novena was still in progress site tie legan began to receive the tha attentions of 0 a governor of 0 one of 0 the far states and la Is now married to this gentleman 0 mrs stewart niece of the laic G ener al hunter I 1 E who some years since left washington to make A her ionic with t one 3 I 1 of at colorado springs lit her purse the first coin made of the first bit 0 f while the novena Noven agOld sold taken fro rom WM was still ln in appl chef mines ml 9 a t cripple ppl creek C ree progress should anything X e I 1 i I 1 1 ra r A C 1 I 1 I 1 4 4 rat fal f I 1 i cr i X 1 I 1 N q T 1 pil f 4 A C I 1 A I 1 R 1 li I 1 f I 1 it tin ti N N 7 I 1 sl r fl alj 4 I 1 ll 11 f c 1 41 I 1 1 I T 1 i I 1 P L III t 1 M F 1 ai T tl AT a I 1 P 1 2 vre r 1 K V F I 1 r T A taj 1 I 1 11 m EU tw I 1 m L afi afir 7 f 4 avi r I 1 SP W 5 ax 7 i I 1 if 41 aa a pi e I 1 ta KW K W Z C 5 ia V 4 V 1 I 1 11 LF F 4 X 2 71 az i iti L I 1 17 t 7 var I 1 A t t I 1 41 1 t tearing uy ely it a Noun mountain tain happen to this coin tile the owner would feel eel that some personal pera onal misfortune had befallen her 0 one of the most curious talismans talis mans possessed by a washingtonian la Is that now worn by 0 a man acl ell known in fashionable life lutc this ll Is a ring of tile the oddest design and appearance appeal anee it was presented to blin bilm by his wife on t their heir wedding day in the wires family it has been a talisman tor for three genera lions having havone been first worn by her great grandfather and then in succession I 1 I 1 a n by her grandfather and father the stone with which it Is 13 7 leaa set was taken front from the toot foot of 0 IN 1 a camel while a I 1 party of travelers I 1 were crossing le the da dbert r of sahara the stone though I 1 I 1 quite small Is 13 Y exquisitely cut with a a multiplicity of devices among these ig 13 worn by iler her a chariet drawn great crest grandfather by six horses a f ather full moon anda chanticleer chantick rr appal apparently in the act ut f ci owing clewing A few years since this ring was loaned to a person supposed to be imbued with second sight tor for interpretation this was given to the effect that it had bad originally been the property of one of the favorite wives aives of tho earlier pharaohs Phara Phar it had been burled with her lit in one of the catacombs cata combs front which it had been exhumed and removed by a later pharaoh wit who 0 hil subsequently lost it in crossing cross lne t the he desert then in some unexplained way after the lapse of centuries had become Im bedded in the toot foot of a camel treading the same shifting sands this ring the owner never allows to leave his finger anger day or night the visitors among the fashionable homes of washington v N ill find few peacock feathers as adornments Form formerly For meily cily this could not have been stated but the old superstition in regard to the Un unluckiness luckIn cs of hitting peacocks feathers anywhere about a house liaa has it in s some me mysterious way been steadily gaining credence among fashionables fashio nables until now the extermination of them has grown into an actual hobby with society another P pet L t superstition in washington society f 4 4 that la is on t 0 01 W 1121 IN the dead quiet I 1 s h a r a e d very B i largely by the I 1 I 1 1 younger set Is I 1 that in regard to d ream r eft m books aff as it mu must 1 t sound this I 1 I 1 Is r nevertheless I 1 absolutely got true in regard to not only do tho the dream books loci society ety girls possess themselves of dream beoka but thre there are certain among them who stand forth among their friends as veritable josephs in ren regard rd to 0 o the interpretation of dreams to these favorite ones the girls go and hold bold delightful little talks relating their dreams of the night hoor A 4 as the lie interpreter Is acquainted with all their little Pe secrets crets she ordinarily accomplishes comp lishes the work vork or of tian translation to the entire satisfaction of the pretty young another phoe phase of this dream interpretation terp and I 1 soo soothsaying thay ing Is 1 s for the girls to 1 make up parties I 1 9 1 whenever an adv largely advertised I 1 asti astrologer ca comes m to to town kl I 1 nn and make daake 1 a I n it 11 to the same with strict in I 1 I 1 junctions that no ri om ultra rash fash one of 0 their rela lives is ever to conable ladles ladies become with the tact fact when a gipsy camp locates iab within gunshot of washington tile the dollars and cents that are reaped by those nomads come for the most part not from rom the ignorant but from the ultra fashionable matrons matrona and ms maids ids washington I 1 n Is a great city tor for superstitions i in n particular GLo GLORIANA nIANA GADABOUT |