| Show NOT ALWAYS WISE TO TRUST CHARMS Some Have Been Known to Work Backwards Little Eva Is the most superstitious person I know She wears an elephants elephant's elephants elephant's elephants elephant's ele ele- hair ring on her finger and carries a n rabbits rabbit's foot toot In to her bag She observes all the known ceremonies ceremonies cere cere- monies for prevention pre of misfortune such as ns saying bread breall and butter when walking with a friend and the two are separated by hy passing on opposite opposite op op- sides of ot a n lamp amp post Whenever Whenever When When- ever lr the she Is unwise enough to remind 1 the unkind fates that she has not I I had a n cold In a long time she finds I that It confuses them a n little If she he knocks on wood and It cripples their I efforts at revenge sit slip she presented a n friend a rabbits rabbit's foot for her protection but Lut It played her ber false Shortly thereafter thereafter there there- after the friend was ss-as In an automobile automobile automo automo- bile accident and nod had bad her scalp ripped open for quite a n space Hut But did this shake i as In Inefficacy Inefficacy efficacy e of ot ru ro pedals Not ot at all aliI I l She had hall two ready In a moment One was that Inasmuch us she had not killed the rabbit herself she could not oot be sure that It was the left hind foot This Is the only foot that has hus any real magic In It but commercial dealers are not careful careful careful care care- ful to ascertain the original location of the amputated foot The other explanation In is that thai everybody ev eel has two contrary signs and perhaps In this Instance the rabbits rabbit's foot worked backwards You just jUlit cant can't trust magic not 1101 to reverse Itself for some BOme people Take leaf four clo do- vers vera To the vast majority they bring good luck but to little lava g they bring Illness disappointment and disaster disaster dis dis- aster asler and ond she would sooner BOoner tuck pick poison pot poi son Ivy than the treacherous clover Then there are the terrible black cats the sight of which Is fraught with disaster for so BO many With little I Eva Ilva a the omen reverses revenues Itself She Is a cut cat worshiper and has raised dozens of black ones oneL She became so BO used to their crl crossing crisis crossing s before Lefore her that It established a sort of Im Im- Immunity She Sho discovered It once when whenn a n black cat ent saved Ha her life The rhe anI an an- I I mill ran ron across her path and she I stooped to 10 pet Ilet It Just before Lefore two au automobiles crashed together and piled plied up on the tho sidewalk tit lit the exact spot where she would have been passing If she hadn't stopped to 10 pet Ilet the cat Our office boy Loy Is not so BO lucky The fhe Thelast Thelast last lat time lime a black cat ran across his bis path he had four lint Hat tires before the day was done True tho the tires weren't BO so good gool anyway anway but they would ha have ha e held up very ery well If it It hadn't been Leen for the cat lie He has baa very ry bad luck with brooms too Every Ivery time he Is II hit by one he tie gets gels arrested for some some- thing Once when he was sweeping out his bis fathers father's store he tie hit a friend playfully with the broom Oh dont don't do that the friend cried Ill be arrested ar ar- rested I 1 And within 21 24 hours he he was riding to 10 jail In the Black mark Maria Marla for speeding Little Eva says say It Is I. Isa isa a sure lure sign and that one reason she hates housework Is that brooms are such BUch a menace The vacuum cleaner hug has helped to keep some of our best women out of jail Jull Eva thinks It would be a smart Idea for all policemen police police- men to carry a broom with which to hit obstreperous gangsters Down In the Island of Haiti Halt they have a sweet little custom that Eva Is thinking of adopting They make an effigy of their enemies which they the torture with good effect In order to tomake tomake tomake make the torture effective e they must get a piece of their enemy to paste on the effigy A hair from his bis head bead a paring from his toe nail or even eyeD the tho dirt upon which he has hili spat U is sufficient The witch doctor then puts luls a curse on the tho Image and all aU that Is necessary Is la to stick a pin In 10 Inthe inthe the effigy In the tho exact spot where you want tho the enemy to 10 hurt The only trouble Is that It doesn't work BO so BOwell sowell well wIll on Americans When the Unit ed cd States marines went to Halt Halll the natives made countless effigies with which to torture the Intruders who guffawed loudly at the spectacle and never had hod a single pain This would argue that lint the floe enemy must be possessed possessed pos pos- of a 1 lively belief In 10 magic before before before be be- fore he could be discomfited but It Is 11 worth a 0 trial No matter mailer how much common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense people have few are ara free from some form torm of ot superstition There are those who swoon 8 If they sit Bit down to a table that has thirteen round It Others cant can't walk under a a. ladder without falling In 10 n ft fit tit fit batIa but bat Eva I Is the only one I know who believes believes believes be be- In every form of ot balderdash In existence Even Kven when the rabbit foot toot slips It has bae no effect on her ber belief belief be be- lief Ilef In charms or her vivid respect for Indianapolis News |
