THE JEFFERSONIAN, TOWSON, MARYLAND. July 24, 1920—Page 3

SUPERSTITIONS OF THE PAST

Peculiar Beliefs That Not So Very Many Years Ago Had Almost Uni-

versa! Credence.

A reader furnishes us with a list of old superstitions which were part of our folk lore ,in this part of the country before we had to have folk lore societies to preserve this sort of thing:

A rooster crowing at the front door meant a .visitor coming.

A twig catching a young lady's dress meant a beau.

An itching ear meant that some one was talking about you.

To turn ~baek after starting meant bad luck.

Opening an umbrella in the house meant bad luck to the house.

A measuring worm on a woman's frock meant a new dress.

An itching left hand meant that you would marry soon.

An itching right hand meant that you would shake hands with a strang­er.

Seeing the new moon over the left shoulder meant one would soon get money.

Probably most of us are supersti­tious about the number 13, just as peo­ple were a long time ago. Our own superstitions will amuse a subsequent generation, as those recalled by our

reader amuse usT Offly ~a "subsequent generation can safely laugh at super­stitions. Socrates was put to death for laughing at some of the superstitions of the Greeks. Let us, then, laugh at these and take the superstitions of our own time as seriously as we please.— St. Louis Post Dispatch.

A Paradox. "It is the vote that does the talk­

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Experience Teaches. Teacher—"Jimmy, give an example

of minority ruling." Jimmy—"When there is a baby in the family."—Boys' Life.

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T h e f a r m e r w i t h a h o r s e a n d -wagon is l o o k e d u p o n a s o n e of t h e o ld d a y s , w h e n r a p i d t r a n s i t m e a n t p r a c t i c a l l y n o t h i n g . T h i s m e a n s of t r a n s p o r t a t i o n i s s t e a d i l y p a s s i n g a w a y a n d t h e S E R V I C E M O T O R T R U C K is t a k i n g i t s p l a c e . N O W I S Y O U R T I M E , M R . F A R M E R , t o g e t i n t o t h e n e w w a y of d o i n g b u s i n e s s a n d b u y a t r u c k .

W e h a v e o n e of t h e l a r g e s t s e r v i c e s t a t i o n s i n t h e E a s t , w h i c h is a t y o u r d i s p o s a l d a y a n d n i g h t . T h i s d e p a r t m e n t i s w e l l s u p p l i e d w i t h e v e r y p a r t n e e d e d i n a d j u s t i n g y o u r t r u c k a n d in c h a r g e of o n l y t h e v e r y b e s t m o t o r e x p e r t s .

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REALLY NO GREAT MYSTERY

Though at First It Did Seem Remark­able Where Those Boy Scouts

Were Coming From.

Now there are boy scout stunts and boy scout stunts, but it took a Terre Haute troop to put over the best one. It was at a meet at the First Baptist church, and they were illustrating an early morning at their summer camp, Kinneumapoose. The scenery, except for a small pup tent, was the regular church furnitu're. But still the audi­ence could stretch its imagination enough to make the scene effective.

The first streak of dawn was an­nounced, and then slowly there emerged from the pup tent a yawn­ing, stretching scout. A wee interval, and another followed him. Another lapse of time, and another scout emerged from the tent. Then came others until there were 12 on the plat­form, and still others were coming. The audience was almost incredulous with amazement, for, as every one knows, a pup tent is so small that it cannot accommodate more than three boys at the limit.

Then out started the thirteenth, and evidently he was too sleepy, for he jostled the tent so that it slipped away from its mooring, and there bacK of it was the entrance to the pool for' baptism. The youngsters had been concealed in it and used the tent merely as an entry to the platform.— Indianapolis News.

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Didn't Look Like Police. Sport is making great strides in

France, but the police occasionally make strange mistakes when they see a ldhg line of runners sprinting along the roads and across country.

Not long ago at Vincennes a number of young athletes from the military school of sport were indulging in a paper chase through the woods when they were arrested by gendarmes for being improperly dressed. They were all in white vests and running shorts. The gendarmes, however, had appar­ently not heard of such articles of at­tire or of the military school of sport, Protests made by the colonel in com­mand had no effect.

A few days later, however, when the local gendarmes made a fresh haul of a dozen athletes, they realized their er­ror, for the leader explained that he was an inspector of police and that the runners behind him were all Paris policemen enjoying a fortnight's train­ing.—From the Continental Edition of the London Mail.

MEANT TO CALL THEM QUICK

Aunt Dinah Had No Idea of Allowing for Misunderstanding When

She Rang the Bell.

Aunt Dinah, plantation born and reared, went to a nearby town to "hire out." She was very promptly hired by a young housewife, who, seeing her lack of familiarity with modern house­holds, started to train her.

She showed Aunt Dinah her small silver-service bell—there were no elec­tric bells in the old-fashioned house— and told her that when it was rung she must come into the dining room. Aunt Dinah said she understood. A few days later the mistress was seated on the broad veranda with a friend when she heard a tremendous clangor from the direction of the kitchen. It came nearer swiftly and soon identi­fied itself as the sound of a large bell.

Puzzled, the housewife entered the hall and there stood Aunt Dinah, swinging a large dinner bell vigorous­ly. "Why, what on earth is the mat­ter, Aunt Dinah?" she gasped. "Why are you ringing that bell?"

"Well, Miss Mary, I thought dat was the way folks called each other in dis here house. Didn't you bhow me yo' bell the other day? I f%nd dis one in de cupboard and I .wetted you fight quick in de kitchen, so I ^vung hit."

Labor Savers. At a home in North Delaware street

the man of the house gathered two or more bushels of nuts last fall and put them in the attic. His wife spends most of her time at the office with him, so the house is empty every day. However, recently the wife remained home one day and heard a terrific noise in the attic. Investigating she found two squirrels rushing around like mad, trying to get out a closed window. They had gnawed a hole in the roof as large as a grapefruit and had disposed of the whole mess of nuts. The owner said they saved him the trouble of feeding them, for he had gathered the nuts for them.—In­dianapolis News.

Superstitious Sleuth. "During the windstorm yesterday

afternoon," related Constable Sam T. Slackputter, the sagacious sleuth of Petunia, "a sign board was blown off'm the front of the Right Place store and hit on the head a gent that was com­ing from the depot to deliver the ly-ceum course lecture at the op'ry house last night, and knocked him senseless. I d'know as I believe in omens and such things any more than the average person, but I couldn't help thinking that when a circumstance like that happens it is a sign of something.— Kansas City Star.

Twirl ing-Arms Dance. Many new dances were shown at

the dancing congress in Paris recent­ly. Most of them, however, appeared to lack originality. An exception is the "Tchega," which is danced to the strains of Hindoo music. The "Tche­ga" would never meet with the ap­proval of the British dancing masters, as it is most unsuitable for the English ballrooms. It consists of fantastic movements in which the arms are twirled round the head while the dancer performs short hesitation.—. Daily Mail, London.

Measuring Distance in Turkey. In Constantinople you ask: "How

far is it to the consulate?" and they answer: "About ten minutes." "How far is it to Lloyd George's agency?" "Quarter of an hour." "How,far to the lower bridge?" "Four minutes." I cannot be positive about it, but I think that there, when a man orders a pair of pantaloons, he says he wants them a quarter of a minute in the legs and nine seconds around the waist.— From "Moments With Mark Twain" (Harpers).

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Classifying the Dog. My little niece is very fond of ani­

mals. Seeing some children in the next yard tormenting a puppy she said: "You kids let that dog alone; don't you know dogs is people?"—Ex­change.

Side Whisker Back in London. The London exquisite is doing his

| best to cultivate side whiskers, a fash-j ion that was somewhat frowned upon

a few years ago when Lord Rocksav-age attempted its resurrection. But that was in the days before the war and probably it is as a change from the regulation military mustache of the last five or six years that British young men of today are growing tufts of hair in front of their ears with most hideous result.

The earl of Lonsdale and his broth­er, the Hon. Lancelot Lowther, have always been famous in the fashionable world for wearing "sideboards," but in this hirsute face fitting they are usual­ly credited with a desire to suggest the "sporting" atmosphere in which they are generally to be found.

A Passing Jest. We should have thought of this joke

before, but even yet, if we hurry, a gentle reader here and there will know what we are talking about.

Riggs—You might not think it to look at him, but there is a great deal in that young man.

Diggs—No; he carries it well, but I smelled it on his breath.

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