Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-06 | Page 17 | The Things We Believe

The Things We Believe n n 77 P yO i y J w hiyI t x tr x i I. I t I I I I l II l I 1 I I I IBy By RAY P PEACOCK Associated Press Writer Things that people used to believe and maybe maybe maybe may may- be still do do- do If you drop a dishcloth you will have company company company com com- pany for the next meal If you drop a fork a woman will call on you If a knife a man If someone enters the house by the rear door and leaves by the front guests will come If your right hand itches you soon will shake hands with someone If your left hand itches you soon will receive money If your nose itches you will kiss a fool I Sing before breakfast and you will cry be before before before be- be fore supper If you spill salt you will suffer suffer suffer suf suf- fer a disappointment unless you throw some ome over your left shoulder Put a newly pulled tooth under a glass tumbler and it will become a penny overnight If you stub your toe kiss your thumb and you will meet your beau If a girl turns the rings of nine boys the next boy whose necktie matches the color of the ninth ring willbe will willbe willbe be the one she will marry Put a piece of wedding cake under your pillow and whatever you dream will come true If you start housekeeping with a new broom behind the door and a crust of bread and a coin on the shelf you will always have a clean house plenty of food and money The woman woman woman wo wo- man who opens the seventh package at a baby shower will be the next to have a baby Make a wish when a load of hay goes by do not look at it again and your wish will come true If you sleep in the moons moon's rays you will become When you see a white horse good luck will follow if you lick your right thumb touch it to your left palm and smack your right fist into your left palm Horseshoes must be nailed up with the open side at the top to keep the luck from running running running run run- ning out A mortally hurt snake will not die until sundown If you put a hair from a horses horse's tail into a bottle and do not look at it for three weeks it will turn into a snake Touch a toad and you'll get warts Kill a toad and it will rain If the sun sets in the clouds it will rain the next day A baby will become vain if it looks at itself in a mirror before It is a year old When a baby sleeps with its hands by its head allis all allis allis is well A baby smiling i in its sleep is dreaming dreaming dreaming dream dream- ing of the angels nots me grow where teardrops fall all 7 I r I i. i 1 6