| Show NOT ALWAYS WISE TO TRUST CHARMS some havsteen have Hav eteen been known to work backwards little eva Is the most superstitious person persona nl I 1 know she wears an elephants hair ring on her finger and carries a t rabbits foot in her bag she observes nil all the known ceremonies for prevention of misfortune such as saying bread and butter when walking with a friend and the two are separated by passing on opposite sides of a lamp post whenever ever she Is unwise enough to remind the unkind fates that she has not had bad a co cold id in a long time she finds that it confuses them a little if she ehe knocks on wood and it cripples their efforts at revenge recently she presented a friend a rabbits foot dorher tor her protection but it played her false falm shortly thereafter th the friend efriend was in an automobile accident and had bad her scalp ripped open for quite a sp space a ia but did this disaster shake evas faith in efficacy of rabbit pedals not at all I 1 she had two explanations ready in a moment one was that inasmuch as she hadnot had not killed the rabbit herself eshe could not be sure that it was the left hind foot this Is the only foot that has any real magic in it but commercial dealers are not care aulito ascertain the original location of the amputated foot the other explanation Is that everybody has two contrary signs and perhaps in this instance the rabbits foot worked backwards your you just cant trust magic not to reverse itself tor for some people take four leaf clovers to the vast majority they bring good luck but to little eva they bring illness disappointment and disaster and she would sooner pick poison ivy than the treacherous clover then there are the terrible black cats the sight of which Is fraught with disaster for so many with little eva the omen reverses itself she Is a cat worshiper and has raised dozens of black ones she became loused soused to their criss crossing before her that it established a sort of immunity she discovered it once when a black cat saved her life the animal ran across her path and she stooped to pet it just before two automobiles tomo to blIes crashed together and piled up on the sidewalk at the exact spot where she would have been passing it if she stopped to pet the cat our oar office boy Is not so lucky the last time a black cat ran across his path he had bad four flat tires before the day was done true the tires so so good anyway but they would have held up very well it if it been for the cat he has very tery bad luck with brooms too every time he la Is hit by one he gets arrested for something once when he was sweeping out his fathers store he hit a friend playfully with the broom oh dont do that the friend er cried ledIll TU be ar rested I 1 and within 24 hours he was riding to jail in the black maria for speeding little eva says it Is a sure sign and that thai one reason she hates housework Is that brooms broom iare are such a menace the vacuum cleaner has helped to keep some of 0 our best women out ot of jall eva thinks it would be almart a smart idea for all police men to carry a broom with which 6 to hit obstreperous gangsters down in the island of haiti they have a sweet little cushin custom that eva era is thinking of adopting they make an effigy of their enemies which they torture with good effect in order to make the torture effective they must get a piece of their enemy to paste pasta on the effigy A hair from his head a paring from his toe nail or even the dirt upon which he has spat la is sufficient the witch doctor then puts a curse on the image and all that Is necessary Is to stick a pin in the effigy in the exact spot where you want the enemy to hurt the only trouble Is that it work so well on americans when the united states marines went to halt haiti the natives made countless effi effigies gies with which to torture the intruders who guffawed guff awed loudly at the spectacle and never had a single pain this would argue that the enemy must be possessed of a lively belief in magle magic before he be could be discomfited but it Is worth a trial no matter how much common sense people have few of them are am tree free from some form of superstition there are those who swoon if they sit down to a table that has thirteen round it others cant walk under it a ladder without falling in a fit but eva elva Is the only one I 1 know who believes in every form of balderdash in Ws stence sl tence even when the rabbit foot slips ft t has no effect on tier her belief in charms or her vivid respect tor for indianapolis news |
