Show WHY of superstitions B by H KINQ GOLLIWOGS N THE bonnets of some automobiles ON 0 will be seen a squat hideous little figure the uglier the bet ter placed there for luck the polliwog golliwog golli wog la is a favorite in shop windows may be seen weird artificial ornithological specimens advertised as fulja or weenee wee jee birds supposed to somehow bring goad luck in connection with the julja board the purchaser of the wee weenee jee bird and the owner of the golliwog polliwog deco rated auto would repudiate any serious belief in the efficacy of their talisman and yet the automobile 1 nan man says 10 0 course its all nonsense but I 1 had bad an accident since I 1 mounted my polliwog golliwog golli goll wog and the sweet school girl giggles culjas jas been awfully nice to me since I 1 bought my bird showing the lingering atavistic tendency to a belief in mascots which the savage openly avows with regard to his hideously carved juju ju ju primitive man came to a belief in the efficacy of hideous figures as a protection against evil spirits or the evil eye by logical reasoning with his de ants it Is only an unreasoning survival primitive man reasoned that on an evil spirit would be seared scared by the distorted features of the fetish and keep away or CT perhaps he might mistake it for a spirit of I 1 its his own kind voluntarily or by force attached to the possessor and forbear to trespass again anything hideous or unusual catches and holds the attention and tha glance of the evil eye would be attracted to the golli wog and its baleful influence wasted on the freak figure instead of falling upon and blighting the figures owner from stone hatchets to automobiles Is a tar far cry but not tor for the polliwog golliwog golli wog A by bv hie mcclure clure News newspaper Taper syndicate I 1 |