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Show Explaining Firm Belief of Cigarette Smoker! Why is it unlucky to light three clj' j arettcs from Ihe same match? A stii: j dent of superstition has been trying to lind out the origin of this most popular pop-ular of recent beliefs in omens. One explanation says that It stnrle(, in the liner war. There has seldon been a war in which so many men wore killed or wounded by sharpshooters! It did not take long to observe tint! at night, if a match were kept alight long enough to ignile three cigarette, It gave a distant Hoer marksman just ! time enough to get a good aim. One .of the three men usually fell, so ll was not surprising Unit the habit soon' became looked upon as unlucky. Another explanation, however, snyi : that the Ilocr war story was made up! long afterward to explain tho belief. J This critic is more prosaic and lie ln-j sisls Unit the popular opinion wns not heard until the World war and that It was slarled by Ihe manufacturers of ; a well-known, brand of matches who ! thought up (he cleverest selling carn-j paign for their product ever devised. I Detroit Mews. ! |