FOR THE SUPERSTITIOUS.
To make tea too-strong is a sigi: of new Iriend.
If you make it too weak then you will lose friends. If you sing while making bread you will weep before it is eaten. To forget to put coffee in the coffee-pot is a sign of a coming gift. If a cork pops out of a bottle suddenly, beware of unknown enemy.
A quarrel is coming if you allow a cooking-stove to get red-hot on top.
In washing dishes, if you forget an article, you will soon hear of a wedding.
If a girl who is kneading dough clutches a lad’s face, he’ll never
grow a beard. When bread, cake, or pie will burn in spite of you, your husband or lover is angry with you. If, while opening a tin of fruit or anything similar, the juice should happen to spurt out in the operator’s face, it is a sign of some coming good. N.B.—And if you place too much weight on these omens, you are simply .looking for trouble.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 413, 21 July 1908, Page 4
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174FOR THE SUPERSTITIOUS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 413, 21 July 1908, Page 4
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