Show TT I oa laI 4 Author o of How blow to Win Wm F Friends L and In Influence P People p pI I i i SUPERSTITIOUS PEOPLE I t- t Ar Are Aro you superstitious And have hate j you ou ou been taunted about it Well VeIl if I so BO dont don't worry for you have e hood good f company A J J I. I In the tho spring of 1909 Admiral t. t Peary was tho the first man in history to reach the Pole and he lie did it after 23 years of or heartbreak and cruel discouragement and on his final dash to the Pole he wore a good bood luck coin pined Ined to his hirt girt Seventeen years later comm commander a. a Richard E. E Byrd was the first man mana mancer a i ever er to fly over oYer the tho North Pole Polo and aud as he flew fiew over it he had pinned to his shirt the same good luck coin c that Perry had carried and find he lie actually actually ac uc- rubbed it with his the moment he flew over the Pole That little good luck c coin In is the only object that tha has even been to the North Pole twice Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Europe and changed the tho map around L as ns if ir it were a jigsaw puzzle puzzle and and yet et he lie was was afraid of black cats Peter the Great wa was the most lam fain I F j 4 Miss Ella Butner of Winston Winston- Salem N. N C. C works all year year making making mak mak- ing e candles for the Moravian l church Christmas love sr I S. S n. n r They start several 5 weeks before t Christmas Christinas each year cutting evergreens evergreens evergreens ever ever- greens in the north woods an and shipping them to far away corners to brighten up a living room on oni i Chri Christmas morning ous and cruel Czar who ever sat on ont t the le bloody throne of Russia Russin Ho was wasco wasco co lOa cruel that he be murdered his own son eon yet et ho he was afraid to a tiny lIny bridge unless ho he made a holy 1 sign Lord Nelson is the greatest naval hero in England history yet he be was wasso wasso so superstitious that he had a 11 horse horseshoe shoe hoe nailed to tho mast of his ship during the famous Camous battle of at gar ar t I Dr Samuel Johnson one of or the tiie most intellects in all tho the annals of or English literature was so superstitious that ho he struck every lamp post that he passed with his j I IThe cane The rhe day aft after or Abraham Lincoln was elected President he looked Into in into tn- tn to a mirror and saw his body ro- ro Hectel with two faces and one of or ithem ithem i j them very pale ho he feared tha that t was wa wasa waa a sign cf Gf oncoming death I j i George Georgo Washington had an iron ironI I band put on his step step-da step daughter Patsy I 10 to cure her of or epilepsy Think of or it I II But she finally died of epilepsy soI so o I guess ess the iron ring was no pro pro- I after all I The director in 47 JUs Ius and the head of or a hundred million dollar doUar investment trust has hundreds hundreds hun hun- red of ivory ele elephants in ills Lis home bome I Years ago when whon a strike was on and ana he was worried a little girl brought him a tin elephant and told him that It would bring him good luck A few rew days later the strike was to his satisfaction ana and ever Yer s slice since nce then he has been collecting collecting collecting col col- good luck elephants Now when he has an important decision to make he always alwa's holds a little elephant between his seco id and alid third fingers for luck When the stock market is going up he wears a blue silk tie with a white elephant So dont don't allow people to make you OU think yourself crazy if you aro are super super- But dont don't let your superstition superstition superstition super super- drive you silly antics or get 1 between you ou and your goal It it doesn't Ido do these things then be bo superstitious and lont worry about 1 it It t. t I |