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Show Who Believes in Omens Nowadays? "Who believes in omens nowadays?" is a question ques-tion best answered by sundry young people of both sexes. Xo need to recall the trifling occurrences which credulity magnifies into signs of future good or evil. The Thirteen club has had much to do with banishing at least one foolish superstition. Virgins wise and' unwise no longer dread to spill the salt at the table, to hear the owl, to marry in May, or to begin undertakings on a Friday. When it comes to quoting poetry an apt quotation quota-tion strikes a responsive chord and if there is just a bit of harmless prophecy about it, the occasion will not be allowed to escape the attention of the company. Apropos of this the story tellers say that when Cardinal Gibbons was in Rome some years ago, he was invited to a dinner, since made memorable from the apposite citation of a line j from "Lochiel's Warning." His eminence was at the fime a monsignor. Dinner over, some bonbon-nieres bonbon-nieres representing hats of every description were passed around as souvenirs. The waiter carrying the tray on which they were, stumbled just as he reached Mgr. Gibbons, and a miniature cardinal's hat, the red tricorn, rolled from the tray into the prelate's plate. Count Cassell, who was a warm friend, of the monsignor, saw the episode, and, leaning across the table, quoted the old maxim: "Coming events cast their shadows before." Everybody Every-body laughed, and so did the monsignor. but a year later, when the dignity of cardinal was conferred con-ferred upon him. several recalled that dinner at the American college. |