Show Odd Superstitions Superstition rules many people of ot of the tho world even in such a corn com cornmon corn TOon mon on practice as washing clothes Morocco's women are arc sure that clothes washed on Tuesday will shrink f and that Saturdays Saturday's wash wash- washing ing ing soils faster Rumania's housewives house- house housewives wives on the contrary wash Sat Sat- Sat Saturdays but are sure their suds would turn to blood if they should attempt to wash on Good Frida Friday English peasants say a death will occur soon in the family if anyone makes this most tragic of all our Teli religious ous anniversaries her wash wash- day cay Russian women believe that if they wash clothes a at t Whitsuntide much feared ater vater ater spirits will show their displeasure Only in th the United do women have no such foolish ideas Our wives and mothers make no distinction between the days das Per Per- Perhaps Imps haps it is because manufacturers have made it so easy for them to wash whenever the they please With electrical washers in two fifths of all the wired homes and other power washers in many thousands of other houses washday no long long- longor longer er or is it a fl task postponed as lon long as upsetting the whole home when it cannot be further avoided Cleaning is done swiftly and easily now and too On the Isle of Swe it is said that if a man dies and his family does s oe-s not wash his clothes the ghost host of a woman will appear and do it for him That would be he a washday even cven easier than those in our rightly equipped homes but there is no record of any ites ites ever putting the superstition su- su su to th the test |