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Show HORSESHOE LUCK For A coed many years the finding of horseshoes ana of four-leaf clown hara bean conaMarad tha emblems of good luck. Clover leaves, probably, ara aa plentiful aa thy wd to be, but horse-ahoaa horse-ahoaa ara disappearing from tha road-waye, road-waye, du to thg advent of automoMlee. But people's luck slays with them pretty wall. Away bark In tha oantuiica araaa tha Idea of a horaaahoa brtnxihg (rood look to tha flndar. In tha aariy daya horse-ahoaa horse-ahoaa wera nailed up ovar doors. Ami tha reason for nailing tham up ovar tha portala waa that they "kept tha witches away." It waa good luck to find one that tha witchea might ba banned, awl after ballaf In witchcraft faded, tha horaa'a ahoa waa considered a good omen anyhow, and from those daya to theae. It haa been tha cuatom to nail It ft bova .tha door for lw-k. Hut ona muet u very careful and aaa that tha point of tha ahoa ara up, claa all tha luck will run out! Vary wiaa people hara believed In tha afrlcacy of the nailed up ahoa. No leaa a peraon than Lord Neleon nailed one to the maat of hla rood ahlp Victory. If It didn't brine; him victory, why, of rouree. ha rouet have had tha ahoa nailed up wrong aide to. 'And four-leaf elovcra ara Juat aa lucky aa they uaed to be. Thta eeaeon's crop may be pretty well harvested. But If you care for one. look In tha old Hlble, or autograph album, tiurely there ara a few nicely preeaed and walling for you there. |