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Show MORTALS HEDGED IN BY SUPERSTITIONS Chicago Woman Says Average Person Defers to Omens Now as in the Dark Ag-es, I Special to Tho Tribune. C-HCAGO, March 23. Would you start on a journey on Friday? Would you look at tho new moon over your left shoulder? Would vou walk under a ladder? Mrs. John O'Connor told the members of tho League of Religious Fellowship that tho average person would not. She-declared that superstition exists today as It did In tho dark ages, but "now neither fancy nor terror marks the forms of superstitions su-perstitions as they cxlut in tho civilized world, but rather a nameless something which often Influences nnd Homotlmca controls the everyday nets of men. SO.ME SUPERSTITIONS OF TODAY. Mrs. O'Connor named the following "evil aniens" an thoso which aro still heeded oven lh practical Cl'lcago: - Tho nunber thirteen. Spilling salt and tho antidote, throwing throw-ing salt over tho left shoulder. fctartlng on a Journey or beginning anything any-thing on Friday. Picking up a pin with tho point toward you. Walking undor a ladder. Getting out of bed on tho wrong sldo. Turning back after you hnvo started on a Journey. Stumbling upstairs. Seeing the moon ovor tho loft shoulder. Falling of a family portrait. Breaking of a looking glass. Howling of a dog under a sick porson'a window. Passing a horseshoe without picking It un- i Defying fato by saying you aro nover sick: antidote, touching wood or anything upder the tablf. Seeing a pin and letting It lie. Giving a knife or othor sharp article to a friend nnd a penny with It to keep It from cutting the friendship. SOME DINNER TABLE FANCIES. Other members of the league contribute-the contribute-the following, which they say aro believed in today: Dropping a fork means woman is com-Ine;. com-Ine;. Dropping a knlfo means a man is coming. com-ing. Dropping a spoon means a letter is coming. com-ing. Two forks at your plato nicaii3 you will havo company. Two spoons forecast an engagement. Bubbles on your coffee mean money, so do loaves in ton. IT you hang n hairpin on a hook you arc sure to havo company. Mrs. O'Connor declared that the number 13 hud come to be so generally regarded as an omen of evil that many hotols and steamships had no rooms so numbered. "Those I have named aro only tho most comaion ovll omens," she said. "TIito aro scores of others. Probablv vou all know some ono who carries a ho'rso chest-nifl chest-nifl In his pocket or wears an Iron ring on one of his tlngerfi, or a nutmeg around his neck to prevent rheumatism." |