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Show SOME SUPERSTITIONS. Among the hundreds of superstitious supersti-tious beliefs still held by otherwise intelligent in-telligent people may be named the following, completed by a recent writer: It is bad luck to spill salt or break a mirror. Putting on a garment backwards back-wards or wrong side out by mistake brings good luck. Fish is a brain food. Handling a toad will cause warts. Only the good die young. It is unlucky un-lucky to light three cigarettes with one match. Friday and the 13th of the month are unlucky, especially if they happen to fall on the same day. To pick up a pin means good luck. Crops should be planted according to the moon. Knocking wood averts a penalty for boasting of former good luck. The list of such superstitions and beliefs is almost endless. And it is not only the ignorant who act upon such beliefs. Most people, including those who have achieved greatness, have their pet superstitions. To mention a few: President Lincoln was superstitious about dreams. President Cleveland always al-ways carried a horse chestnut in his pocket for luck. Mussolini consults astrologers. as-trologers. Bill Tilden, of tennis fame, carried a four-leaf clover. Pola Negri thinks her screen career was damaged damag-ed by a black cat crossing her part. Chalaipin, famed opera star, always puts on his left shoe first. Sarah Bernhardt would not let any of her company wear yellow. Napoleon feared fear-ed cats and maneuvered his armies according to the stars. Stanley Baldwin Bald-win carries a rabbit's foot. And many hotels and office buldings omit the number 13 in numbering their floors, in deference to superstitious guests and tenants. A small minority of persons are hard-boiled enough to call all these superstitions the bunk, and defy them accordingly. How about yourself? Would you walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella indoors? |