Show LUCK IN ODD NUMBERS of modern gambler which I 1 ar abold aO ld M the hill jf there is one active principio that inters into gambling it ia superstition almost every man that hunte tho lahive tho desolate waste of bo green baczo 1 on tho race gos or in any of alio other multitude ws ways or place that one may lay ige to alluring fortune there is a sop ate fancy jack mcdonald one of tho best known lok makers of america believes that i is most successful in those years bich are indicated by odd numbers a if yon are doubtful of the truth of be will offer yon figures to prove it carley B as bookmaker goolt is et known has a steadfast belief in it and after he has selected a horse to bet upon ho will place an extra heavy feager on him it ho discovers that ho is 3 on the pro gramme several superstitious betting men at abe morris park races a few years ago noticed the coincidence that the thirteenth day of the meeting fell upon anne 13 and they straightway sought oat a horse numbered 13 on the card they found one and bet upon him and to make the coincidence most strange be won that this belief in luck as applied to certain numbers ia aamold phy is shown by tho fact that centuries before the christian era the pythagoreans md who represented all movements and phenomena of nature by invented the science of arith Bo mancy consisting of the use of magic tl squares and applying occult powers to numbers on the combinations of gitein numbers depended systems of divi and particular virtues were as o abed to numbers accordingly as they vere odd or even theres luck in odd numbers is a paying as old as pie hills As ancient a writer as virgil says the gods themselves esteemed ete emed the numbers odd for in the eighth eclogue ho wrote around hie caien first I 1 wind three woolen falleta of three colors joined thrice round his thrice devoted bead velch round the backed thrice la led Vb einAl number please the gods abo chinese have similar ideas with tern hewn is odd and earth oven and ie numbers 1 3 5 7 9 belong to heave while the even digits are of the arth earthy so it is little cause for wonder that modem gamblers etick to their be lie that fortune abounds in odd num sites only now york herald |