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Show SUPERSTITIOUS AS A NATION. Americans Lead the World In Hoodoo and Luck Beliefs. "Wo talk about tho supeistitions of tho savages," said a gentleman nt tho Raleigh, "but If thoro aro any peoplo C3 superstitious as tho Amorlcnns I den't know it. I was talking on that subject over at tho capltol a day or two ago to a group of senators and ever)' senator pulled out a lucky piece fiom his pocket. They carry everything, every-thing, from n potato or a horso chestnut chest-nut for rheumatism, to a Chlneso coin. I wns talking with a very prominent man a short tlmo ago, who was insist-liig insist-liig that the Amorlcan people woro not superstitious. 'Let mo see tho contents con-tents of jour pocket,' I said. 'Why are you carrying that?' I asked, when I spied a big copper cent of tho coin-dec coin-dec of half n century ago. 'That is of tho year In which I was born,' ho said, 'and a gypsy told mo onco If I carried a cent of tho year In which I was born I would nover bo without money. That was a good many years ago, and I carried that cent two or thrco years before I tumbled to tho point.'" Washington P6st. |
