Show No One Wanted Box 13 rIn r In no other western European country country country coun coun- try is superstition so prevalent as in Austria Quite recently the chamberlains chamberlain's office changed the number number number num num- ber of box 13 In th the Imperial opera J house and t the tle e Imperial Court theater to because the public objected to sitting in a box bearing this unlucky number None of the rich subscribers who tat takes s a box for the the year wanted No 13 and for or single performances it was Just as hard to dispose of ThiS ThiS' superstition reaches its height in medicine Speaking tat at the health 1 exhibition Dr Heinrich Grun declared that in many instances superstition j t tand and especially local superstition was was an absolute menace to public health In the Austrian hospitals one finds no block or pavilion 13 no ward 13 no staircase 13 Very few patients will consent to be operated upon on 0 the thirteenth nth day of the month and andin in this respect Friday too is considered considered consid consid- r ered just as unlucky At Carlsbad J and other famous Austrian cure resorts nobody wants to begin his cure on a Friday |