Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-14 | Page 10 | The Man About Town

tj it r I ) t3 VT has been Enid that all people arc H) Ira ; sS 9 more or Ichk suporrftiUouy, and one of 1'' 'He ' iWl M. 1110 171081 common supcrHlltlons 1b that K ll! ' ma tllp "UIIll,,ir i:i ai,u the day Friday are i I ' ' flllUC:1C"'' S Str"K ' 1,1,3 bCl'Cf 1,1 somc perHons that they Tcfnso to occupy a room numbered with tho fateful 1 and 3 and hesitate hes-itate about undertaking a Journey on tho sixth day of the week. With certain men and women, mostly tho latter, superstition supersti-tion Is a science that is. In a way. They have more or Ices complex rules according accord-ing to which certain atrnosphorlc conditions condi-tions or coincidences modify the fntoful-ness fntoful-ness of a day, and so on. According to one of these rules, two negatives make an affirmative, and pnrodoxlcal as it rnny seem, yesterday, Friday the 33tu, is con- . sldered an extremely lucky day. It Is a fact often commented upon that prospective brides and grooms avoid being be-ing married on Friday or on the 13th of the month. Fewer marriage licensee aro issued on this day and date than nny others oth-ers of the week or the month. Friday is always a light day for Cupid David In the County Clerk's office; tho lith of the month is shunned by loving couples. Yck-terday. Yck-terday. however, there were three couple secured maiTlnge licenses, showing their freedom from superstition, or, moro nicely, nice-ly, their belief Jn tho luckiness of tho doubly unlucky day. Another reason advanced whv Yesterday Yester-day should have been most propitious, more ho than at other times when the coincidence occurs, Is that Frldav happens hap-pens to fall on the 13th df the month only lJnc'?',,X!;HV;r(la'' during the year 1S01. Dur-,5. Dur-,5. tMls happened three times, tho l.th falling on Frldaj In Febru:iry. March :5" r ,ln ,Nvembor. Thoyo days wore nil doubly lucks', but yesterday Is considered three times aH much so for the reason that t is tho only Friday the 13th hi l'KM. It being leap year may possibly add fnr- 1 ther to the luckiness of the day.