Show TRAVEL UN FRIDAY how popular ball and luesa much ridicule has been poured upon thirteen clubs friday clubs and other associations formed for the laudable purpose of dealing in a practical and pleasant way with some current superstitions ions gen wolseley bays the philadelphia record who in a recent pretentious tent ious military criticism included dessaix Dea saix the hero of lr arengo engo among the generals who accompanied napoleon to russia has written a flippant letter to a thirteen club in london to say that he loves to cherish the pretty superstitions of his childhood against this false sentiment it must be said that some of the current popular beliefs are positively in many respects not a transatlantic steamship company has friday among the days of departure and until quite recently none of the coastwise steamship lines had put the unlucky day on its list it would be highly desirable for the ocean mail service that some steamships should leave atlantic ports on friday but while the owners are doubtless exempt from any superstition on the subject aney are obliged to defer to an absurd popular notion else aliey would be apt to find a very small passenger list and might possibly experience peri ence some difficulty in obtaining a crew railroad statistics show that there is less travel friday than on any other secular day of the week experienced travelers are so well aware of this that they sometimes do not take the trouble to secure a pullman ticket friday as they are pretty sure to find an empty berth ote o te |