Show ON superstition we very much if there Is a m art alive in full possession of his faculties who is totally devoid of superstitious instinct no matter whether lie be an infidel a naturalist or wh a t not those who lay the grea ta t claims to being skeptical and imamov able are easily entrapped by ran or ano ther of what they call good luck or bad luck they amply 0 no or the other of these terms to an un forseen occurrence every now and then in a manner which gives them away badly it 13 simply the innate quality which we have all in merited more or less of manifesting itself in an unguarded moment it it occur in chat way it will if colpe other A is like th e quality of fear some have to little of it that they are popularly supposed to have none at all but they have they dont show it OV trying occasions a s their less fortunate fellow creatures d 0 but under some they aill ox a of t beart little and pid th an on and they ell n help it because they are hu man 11 the most superstitious people in the w ald are ge the most intel it rare of eba steadiness of and faculty of computation to make a gambler for instance and gamblers are reputed to be very superstitious actors fire also intelligent and goner aly cultivated people and they ha superstitions which to many would to seem frivolous an castera paper undertook to ascertain li means 0 interviews abou the stood in ibis respect and this was tha result butof twenty five te reviewed by the reporter as tot no most prevalent superstitions am ong the dramatic people all but on e or I 1 I 1 a I 1 d the observed zo e ra t 1 ion I 1 the aracci oth music it must nei thet be sung hummed nor whist Is d of the performance A few I 1 norths ago the writer was passing h hurriedly along the street when he met tory handson le ac trise ab 0 was laccorn palled bj a gentleman frien d whom the writer the di y itt stopped the writer and an t ion followed the lady w a 8 in a hu r i and go was the r fe r c I 1 the most prevalent super fiti tion on the stage the Afa cbeth music of course the lady I 1 reel led and on they passed she ing one way and the reporter an got t 0 r but wit did he ask me that quest on the lady remarked to her escort vi ho afterwards repeated the conversation to the writer when abe ought of the music we shudder referring to this su kitiona few fred ene said the music was composed soon after shake day locke itis ve fine and many actors are thor ua ily familiar with it but you can never get one to sing a bar af pf it off the stage the superstition that the person who flings or hums it except in the will meet with a ye I 1 almost as the custe its self other superstitions among the dra mat ic profession are set down as be ing that a yellow clarl onet must never be allowed in the orchestras as it brings bad lack a deadhead must never be the first td enter the theatre the last speech of the play must I 1 i never be spoken at rehearsals thirteen people must anover be on the stage at a time this superstition is shared more or less by all classes i cross eyed person must biever be seen in the audience by the star this will sound like childish nes to some but it Is only that child aness with which e never at any point in our solemn march from the cradle to the grave entirely outgrow and then again why should w 0 without a belief in agencies which are unseen there is no faith and with out faith there is no christianity the fun fondation dation of all true science and every correct principle on earth |