| Show NOT ALWAYS WISE TO TRUST CHARMS some have been known to work backwards Backward 3 little eva era Is the most superstitious person I 1 know she wears weara an elephants hair ring on her finger and carries a rabbits toot foot in her bag she observes all the known ceremonies tor for prevention or of ml misfortune fortune such as saying bread and butter when walking with and the two are separated by passing on opposite sides bides of a lamp post whenever she to Is unwise enough to remind the unkind fates that she has not had a cold in a long time she finds that it confuses them a little if she knocks on wood and it cripples their efforts at revenge recently she presented a friend a rabbits foot tor for her protection but it played her false shortly thereafter the tha mend friend was tn in an automobile accident and had her scalp ripped open for quite a space but did this disaster shake evas faith in efficacy of rabbit pedals not at allt all I 1 she had two explanations ready in a moment one was that inasmuch as she had not killed the rabbit herself she could not be sure that it was the left hind foot this Is the only foot that has haa any real magle magic in M it but commercial dealers are not careful to lis ascertain certain the original location of the amputated foot fool the other explanation la is that everybody has two contrary signs and perhaps in this instance the rabbits foot worked backwards you just carit cant trust magic not to reverse itself for some people take four leaf clovers to the vast majority they bring good luck but to little eva they bring illness disappointment and disaster and she would sooner pick poison ivy than too the treacherous clover then there are the terrible black cats the sight of which is fraught with disaster tor for so many with I 1 little ittle eva the omen reverses itself she la Is a cat worshiper and has raised dozens of black ones she became so used to their criss crossing before her that it ita established a sort of immunity she discovered it once when a black cat saved her life the animal ran across her path and she stooped to pet it just before two automobile to s crashed together and piled up on the sidewalk at the exact spot where she bhe would have been passing if ahe stopped to pet the cat our office boy Is not no so BO lucky the last time a black cat ran across his path he had four flat tires before the day was done true the tires so good anyway but they would have hare hold held up very well if it been tor for the cat he has very bad luck luc with brooms too every time he to Is hit by one he gets eats arrested for something once when he was sweeping out his fathers store etore he hit a friend playfully with the broom oh dont do that the friend cried ill be arrested re I 1 and within 24 hours he be was riding to jail in the black maria for speeding little eva says it la Is a sure sign and that one reason she hates bates housework Is that brooms are such a menace the vacuum cleaner has helped to keep some of our best women out of jall jail eva elva thinks it would be a smart idea for all police men to carry a broom with which to hit obstreperous gangsters down in the island of haiti they thep have a sweet little custom that eva Is thinking of adopting they make maka an effigy of their enemies which they torture with good effect in order to muke make the torture effective they must mast get r f piece of their enemy to paste pasta on the effley A hair from lits his head a paring from his too toe nall nail or even the dirt upon which he be has spat la is sufficient the witch doctor then puts a curse on the image and all that ts Is necessary la Is to stick a pin in tle the effley in the exact spot where you want the enemy to hurt the only trouble Is that it work so well on americans when the united states marines went to haiti the tha natives made countless with which to torture the tha intruders who guffawed guff awed loudly at the spectacle and ri never ver had a single pain this would arguo argue that the enemy must be possessed ot of a lively belief in tangle ingle before he could be discomfited but it Is worth a trial no matter how much common sense people have few of them are ara free from some form of superstition there are those who swoon if they sit down to a table that has thirteen round it IL others cant walk under a ladder without falling in a fit but eva Is the only one I 1 know who believes in every form of balderdash in exist existence etim even when the rabbit foot slips it has bas no effect on her belief in charms or her vivid respect for voodoo lam indianapolis news |
