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Show Nearly everybody la Hiiperntltlona. "The amount of mental suffering ignorant igno-rant peopla undergo from the fear of ill omens being fulfilled is inconceivable to persons of well balanced minds," said a well known physician. This doctor spent two years at one of the charity hospitals on Ward's Island, and while there had an excellent opportunity oppor-tunity for observing many peculiarities and various phfises of humanity among tho outcasts of a great city. Continuing Continu-ing after a short reverie the doctor said: "Ot course superstitions have existed am will exist as long as thore remains n belief in the mysteries of future life. It is seldom admitted by persons of intelligence intelli-gence that they are, to a greater or less degree, at all subject to the uneasy folding fold-ing an uncanny event will produce. But it is really an exceptional thing to find a person who has no superstitious whatever. what-ever. Generally the presentiments aro so unimportant that they are but seldom sel-dom alluded to by the one experiencing them, and are soon forgotten. But that 1 they do exist in nearly every mind is undoubtedly true." Chicago News. |