| Show NOT ALWAYS WISE TO TRUST CHARMS some have been known to work backwards little eva Is the most superstitious person I 1 know she wears an elephants hair tins ring on her finger and carries a rabbits foot in her bag she observes all the tha 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 bides of oe a lamp post whenever she Is unwise enough to remind the unkind fates that she has not had a cold in a long time she finds that it confuses them a little if she knocks on wood and it cripples their efforts at revenge recently she presented a friend a rabbits foot for her protection but it played her false shortly thereafter the friend was in an automobile accident and had bad her scalp ripped open for quite a space but did this disaster shake evas faith in c efficacy of rabbit pedals not at aill alt I 1 she had two explanations ready in a moment ons one was that inasmuch as she had not killed the rabbit herself she could not be sure that it was the left h hind I 1 ad foot this la Is the only foot that has any real magic in it but commercial dealers are riot not careful to 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 toot foot worked backwards you just can cant I 1 t trust magic not to reverse itself for some people take taka four leaf clovers to the vast majority they bring good luck but to little eva they bring illness disappointment and dis dig aster find she would sooner pick polson poison ivy than the treacherous clover then there are the terrible black cats the sight of 0 which Is fraught with disaster for so BO many with little eva the omen reverses itself she Is a cat worshiper and has raised dozens of black ones she became so used 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 anto automobiles to crashed together and piled up on the sidewalk at the exact spot where she would have been passing if she stopped to pet the cat our office boy Is not so lucky the last time a black cat ran across his path he had four flat tires before the day was done true the tires so good anyway but they would have held up very well it it been for the cat tie he has very bad luck with brooms too livery every time he Is hit bit by one he gets arrested for something once when he was sweeping out his fathers store be lilt it a friend playfully with the broom oh dont do that the friend cried ill be arrested I 1 and within 24 noura hours he was riding to jail in the black marla maria tor for speeding little eva says it Is a sure sign and that one reason she hates housework Is that brooms tire are such a menace the vacuum cleaner has helped to keep some of 0 our u beat women out of jail eva t thinks it would be a smart idea for all policemen to carry a broom with which to tilt hit obstreperous gangsters down in the island of haiti they have a sweet little custom that eva era la Is thinking of adopting they make an effley 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 pasta on the effley A hair from his big head a paring from his toe nail or even the dirt upon which he has spat la Is sufficient lelent the witch doctor then puts a curse on the image and all that Is necessary Is to stick a pin in the effigy ln in the exact spot where you want the enemy to hurt the only trouble Is that lt it work so sa well on americans when tho the united states marines went to the tha natives made countless with which to torture the intruders who guffawed guff awed loudly at the spectacle and never neter had a single pain this would argue that the enemy must be possessed of a lively belief in magic before he could be discomfited but it li in worth a trial no matter how much common sense people have few of them are ar free from some form of superstition there are those who swoon it they sit down to a tahle table that has thirteen round it others cant walk under a ladder without falling in a fit but eva Is the only one I 1 know who believes in every form of balderdash la in existence even when the rabbit foot slips it has no effect on her belief in charms or her vivid respect for indianapolis news |
