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Show XXX000000XOOOOJ x Netu gear's x I Lore o JooxxooooooooooJ tKBg SBBIBW 5T EAR'S night quiet and I j clear indicates a prosperous r PHi 1 ' )n "ew Voi"'s eve wmle I jjaal tne eloch is Striking 12 repeat re-peat three times: "Good St. Anne, good St. Anne, send me a man as fast as you can," and you will be engaged en-gaged within the year. Spend on New Year, spend all the rear. v The Chinese say that If a man sits up for ten years In succession and sees the new year come in he will have a long life. It is unlucky to refuse a beggar anything any-thing on New Year's day, or to refuse a request of any kind. It Is lucky to rise early on New-Year's New-Year's morning. If the first carol singer who comes to the door on New Year's morning Is brought in at the front dour, taken all through the house, and let out at the back door, it will bring luck to the house for a year. When the wind blows on New Year's night, it is a sign of pestilence. if your first caller on New Year's day is a male, you will have good luck and many friends; if a female, bad luck and few friends. The Chinese think New Y'ear's day Is the luckiest of the year. If you wash clothes on New Year's day. You'll be sure to wash a friend away. Turn your pillow at midnight of the 31 st of December and you will dream of the one you are to marry. It brings good luck to place a piece of money on the window on New Year's eve. If the first man you speak to on New Year's morning has his hands in his pockets, you will have a hard time getting get-ting what money you want during the year. It is an old Dutch superstition that If you want to marry the girl you love, your voice must be the first one site hears and your face the first site sees on New Year's morning. Superstitious folk consider it important impor-tant to notice whom you meet the first thing on New Y'ear's day. If it is a man, you will have good luck, if a woman, bad luck; if a priest, you will die within a year; if a policeman, you will have litigation. The first person of the opposite sex you meet on New Year's day will bear the Christian name of your future partner. If ice melts on January 1 it will Ireeze on April 1. Feed the birds well on New Y'ear's morning by placing a sheaf of wheat or barley or some bread outside your house, then good luck will attend you, and good crops and prosperity come to you during the whole year. On New Year's eve take your hymn-book hymn-book to your bedroom, blow out the lamp, open your book, and mark a hymn (In the dark), put it under your pillow, and sleep on it. Next morning read the hymn, and it will indicate tile events of the year. It is unlucky tn have clothes hanging hang-ing on the line when the New Y'ear is born. Cook cabbage on New Y'ear's day and you will have good luck all the year. Decorated apples stuck on three skewers are exchanged for luck on I New Y'ear's day in Great Britain. Burn all the visiting cards that I have been received throughout the year on January 1. If you keep them from year to year you will have bad luck. If you have not provided yourself with a calendar before the New Tear romes In you will be behind hand in ad your undertakings during the year. In Japan oranges are hung up on New Y'ear's day as a charm to insure the long life of the family. The Chinese believe it bad luck In pay all of outstanding accounts on the last of the year and begin fresh and straight on New Y'ear's day. Just before midnight on New Year's eve the Chinese put on new or clean garments, so as to enter the new year purely, and thus gain good fortune to themselves. On New Y'ear's night It was an old Welsh custom with the wise and courageous cour-ageous old men of the parish to sit up all night in the church porch. On that rifght. it was said, a voice, emanating eman-ating from beneath the altar table, pronounced the names of those who should die within the coming year. Your conduct on New Y'ear's day Is a forerunner of your conduct all the year. |