PIN PRICKS FOR FALSE LOVERS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 136, 30 May 1908, Page 3

PIN PRICKS FOR FALSE LOVERS

IPcarls mean tears, and opals luive always been considered unlucky excepting to those born ia the mouth of October. There is a reason for both the-c. which has nothing whatever lo do with' blind chance, l'earls die under certain conditions, and opnls likewise; also the slightest grease will ruin a p.\;r! an t tlie sliglit;s-t knock will chip an opal. iiesldes these costly ch.ll'lus thcle nr.many charms uf no value whatsoever.

in which, all the name, a great many people lirmly believe. A live -paler put in a walnut ,-hell, which i<s glued up and then hung about the neck of a child with the whoopingcough is in many country districts ic garded as an absolute cure. 'l'o a.u the heart out of a live pigeon anil cai it raw. wishing at the -ame time for the love of some young man,'is another of the charms ot' the past; and from that it in only a step to the old dodge oi avenging one's self on a lover by modelling a ligure of a man out of lice,--wax and -ticking it full of pins, a pin at night and a pin in the morning, and when you cannot put another single pin in, stand it oil the hearth in front of the lire and watch it slowly melt away. As the wax melts, no Ihe young man already weakened by thousands of pinmarks, will assuredly depart this lite.