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Show UNLUCKY LADDERS If one was asked how ft happens to be utaing "addcrf ho mTlhtlII'1 to" to tell. And when he learns just bow this superstition bad its origin it is likely he would smile. And the chances are, just the same, that when he met a ladder following that, he'd give it a wide berth, so strong isthe superstition in- stilted. Over In Kngland in the early dHya people peo-ple were hanged very successfully but In a primitive way. Usually th 'chief attraction of one of these ceremonies had to walk under a ladder before reaching his place on the gallows. The ladder leaned against the structure for the convenience of the executioner. As the victim paaued under the ladder it was fairly certain that he was aoon to be hanged going to have a piece of bad luck, in fact. And so. because of that early tradition, the person who passes under a ladder Is supposed to be a subject sub-ject for bad luck. Kome folk think the reason it Is a J premonition of 111 fortune to walk under I a ladder Is because of the chance one takes of a workman standing on It dropping drop-ping something on him. But, as can be seen, that Isn't the idea. , i |