Show I III II III III II II II I i 1 o of f Superstitions i 1 H. H ml KING KINq I I t 1111 t II r t J IVY NEW V E ENGLAND GLA there here Is a popular IN lar superstition time It Is unlucky to toI I keep ivy y In the house and that ivy y Is unlucky as a gift At first It seems strange e to set see the Idea or of bad luck associated with Ivy y which plant decorated dec dec- orated the of and th the leaves of which the Romans Homans with the laurel In theIr victors victor crowns All popular superstitions have an which orl origin ln must be searched for In remote past almost without ex- ex e The They are ure inheritance Those which at first glance appear to be modern will upon In geny gen orally be found to be most ancIent In th lr their roots Thus the Idea that the e ot of tomatoes produces dues cancer Ii a few years ao ago a most common superstition super super- and one which would appear to 10 date only from the comparatively recent time when tomatoes were fIrst used us food Is In reality merely un an application or of one of means wan's earliest conceptions that of the primitive angle Un lc which s known us homeopathic like producing like So there ther Is some ancient cause for forthe forthe the h ivy superstition It would appear to be a lingering echo of n historical incident whIch rendered at the time the generally esteemed and venerated ivy a most unsafe and unlucky plant to have In ones one's possession About two hundred years ears before the Christian Chris Chris- tian era time the cult of Bacchus obtaIned a great vogue In time noman Boman world and degenerated Into orgiastic rites ot of a t most depraved and degenerate nature J. J riot not Infrequently accompanied with the murder of secret oL votaries rles whose fidelity was suspected All Rome Home anti and Italy were honeycombed with the debasing debasing de- de basing cult An arous d government go took action many were put to death and many Imprisoned un until 11 the scandal was stamped out The wound ivy rod or was carried h by the votaries of Bacchus when celebrating the orgies To have ha one of these In your house at the thc time the government o was suppressing time the scandal or to to- receive one as a gift was decidedly unlucky by McClure McCrure Newspaper Syndicate |