Show I CTHE WHY of I SUPERSTITIONS By H. IRVINQ K I N Cj Going Back MORE people than would be willing will-ing to acknowledge It believe that It Is bad luck after leaving the house to return for something they have forgotten. Some popular super- I stitions can be explained psychologically psychologi-cally and this Is one of them. The psychologists agree as to the bad luck part of It but say that the bad luck consists not so much in the going back for the article as in the forgetting of it In the first place; for I that shows that you do not keep your t mind sufficiently upon the details of what you are about Having to go back for that letter or package you were to take downtown Is a symptom of lack of concentration of the mind on Immediate matters; and lack of concentration on "the Instant need of I things" is "unlucky." Things will ap- ! pear to go wrong all day and you will j attribute It to the fact that you went back after your umbrella ; whereas the fact Is your mind Is not functioning properly. ((c). 1931. MrClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WNU Service.) |