Show WHY of superstitions by H KINQ MOTHERS DISHCLOTH WHEN a garl Is married and goes away from home to set up her own housekeeping she should always steal her mothers dish cloth to carry away with her as that will prevent her being homesick besides it will probably bring her good luck there are brides even today who begin married life by doing their own housework and to such this super sti alon applies alie first part of it the entson of homesickness Is the part most extensively believed in though both first and second alons have their votaries vot aries the source of tills superstition Is the same as that of many others the idea of the primi alve man that anything closely asso dated with a person came to partake in time more or less of that persons individuality unknown to herself this idea persists in the brides ancon self as psychologists call it and to it Is added the consciousness of handling tn her dally task an article which brings before her fancy her mother engaged in hers there Is a sense of companionship in it and likewise the half formulated idea that she like her mother Is now set out on a domesek career of her own were it only an ornament of her mothers which she handled it might merely make her think of her mother and be homesick but the dishrag Is not only something closely connected with her mother but it Is associated with her in her capacity as housewife a something of her mother with her and helping her and useful to her in her dally tasks and so she Is not home sick a fact which she ascribes to some magical properties in the dishrag and not to the magic of psychology the good luck idea comes i natural ly through association the mother has been the brides protector guide made things safe and pleas ant for her the dishrag partakes of the individuality of the mother to it a primitive feeling transfers the mothers powers making it potent for good fortune even as the mother has been 0 by mcclure syndicate I 1 |