Show LUCK AND SUPERSTITION Men and women women are believers in hick but l luck k kand and superstition are ure very velY close clofe of kin Men are in too oo many instances disposed to attribute all the weaknesses of the race to the female sex Woman Yoman is 18 they reason the weaker vessel and therefore more thore more subject to weaknesses of every err description than her lord and master But investigation of the matter shows show's th that t man is is if anything more superstitious superstitious super super- than woman TC We are filled with awe at the c contemplation Dt of savage superstition whether of ol the long ago or ot- of today But civilization m itself is it far fUl from freedom in this regard We e are not en t by the time same superstition that degrades bar bal but here is is' hardly a aman a. a man luau in our civilized I comm communities not affected b by some superstitious be bc Such and such a thing denotes bad had luck and his hiB peace of mind is thereby affected Some are arc dis us by dreams and prop 1 up up tIli the time days day's business busine s I by ly the fancies of sleep Others forecast the da days day's s I doings doing's b by the time nature character appearance 01 or even en s x of the first caller Seamen are proverbially pro l brave e fellows fello and proverbially superstitious Thie They believe for instance that i it is unlucky to have r a I bobtail bob oa the ye vessel sel but that rats are lucky Other sailors hold that a n. clergyman on bo board rd means a stormy trip Few marh marines es care Cale to sturt start on a voyage on ou that sinister tel day lay Friday The soldier like th the sailor Nailor has his Peculiar superstitions so has tb the broker the time banker Cr the I lawyer I the time p the divine and Ute time m merchant Men Ien attribute nearly al all aB I failures to what they term terni luck Yet luck is s super superstition pcr or or nothing Women xi rarely if ever nel speak of or I luck But men who talk lalk so 60 often of it ridicule th the S superstitious fancies of women The They value valne themselves them them- I selves selves very h superior QI to they the term tb the C childish beliefs and fancies of womanhood Men en such as those Charles Kingsley describes are arc few indeed indeed indeed-at at least those uniformly so The Time men whom I have hare seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men who went about their business with a smile on their faces face and took the changes and chances of their mortal life like m men n acting rough and smooth alike as it came and so found the time truth of the old proverb that i good times tunes and bad times and amid all times pass over O There are rue of course superstitious women Some women will if f they hear heal a do dog cry predict a death lentil Some predict dire lire disa disaster from the tile chirping of a cricket on the time hearth Mothers in some instances believe it unfortunate to measure a baby But if women are subject to these and other peculiar fancies fancies fan fan- cies des and if you JOU wish follies what of the fancies fancieR and follies of men The truth is men believe in what they call luck women believe more in omens and neither man nor 1101 woman is likely till a hi higher her stage of life is reached to enjoy enjo emancipation from this condition seemingly inseparable from flom human existence within its present limitations |