SUPERSTITIOUS GIRLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7960, 10 February 1906, Page 7

SUPERSTITIOUS GIRLS.

The girl who puts a foar-leafed tjlover in her shoe doea it "just for Jan," of coarse, bat she eyes with interest the first man she meets thereafter. She who pluoks the ■petals of a daisy knows there is nothing reliable in the respocse of this modern oracle, yet she blushes if it answers as she wants to have it, and is utterly miserable if it doesn't. She is mightily pleased if she finds one fork too many at her place at the table, or, if acting as bridesmaid, she oatohe3 the bride'sbbo- t quet. Aid when she laughingly "refuses to take the last piece of "bread on the place she is, in her secret heart, as sincerely afraid of hoodoo as she was in her days t>f frocks and amber beads, when she would walk along the street stepping over all the cracks between' the paving-stones. She does not care to tafee any unnecessary chances. Bat, note this, it is before her engagement that she is most susceptible to this kind of sentimental fear, which is in its nature essentially feminine. Afterwards, when her future is "pettled," ■according to the popular estimate, she enters into a new state of doubt and dread, very like to that in which the masculine lover . dwells. She is »t the uncertain mercy of the weather. The wind pays an Aeolian tone tipon her heart-strings. If she has not'seen her fiancee since the day before yesterday, she may shiver like a neurotic child because the sun goes momentarily behind a Cloud. If the morning is dark and she had a quarrel with him the evening before, ,she feels as woebegone as Mariana of the Moated Grange.