Show superstitions OF TRE THE HOME some seme of them are traced to domestic economy and others to thrifty habits habit the signs and wonders of the household have markedly diminished in the last quarter century many of them w were ere picturesque and diverting few ot of then them were taken seriously enough to be harmful it Is easy to trace some of them to their sources in domestic economy A group of them for exa example had to io do with the approach of an unexpected d guest the scissors or a knife sticking up straight in the floor a dropped dish cloth or a long floating stem in a cup of tea all these foretold arror tie they had tho the agreeable double effect of keeping the household up to a high mark of preparedness and ol 01 breaking monotony by the pleasure ol of anticipated society if the probe prophesied sled caller followed the abo dropping of ors the sign eign received an increased d authority tho rity when the promise failed the failure was promptly for forgotten gottelL another group of superstitions rests upon apon tho the thrifty habits of former to Topi cli vp up a pin brouet good IMIL to neglect to snuff a candle un ul LU it vaa wimm MOW by a weeper was oure oro to involve misfortune an over I 1 abundance of tea grounds in the cup poke ol of careless measures and so 0 o threatened debt A second helping of food before the first was eaten ora ere told an undesirable beggar 1 the domaas mind it if left to itself turns naturally to believe the make believe elleve ti A housewife housew ifo pit her ber unreason against ae cinat her ber reason thel tb were mero act of absurd illogic gives elves variety and charm chana to an otherwise dull afternoon of housework and nobody la in the worse wone for stretching the arm ann of imagination to include a little mud mild of the th old fashioned sort |