A New Superstition

I learned of what to me is a brandnew superstition just the other day, and I tremble to think of the risks I have been running all these years in my ignorance of it. It was at an informal evening entertainment at the house of a woman I know, and in the room set apart for the wraps of the woman guests was a maid who was dlrected to see to it that nobody's hat was placed on the bed, for the laying of a hat on the bed, as the hostess ezplained later, always signifles the approaching death of an intímate frlend of the house. The superstition Is, I believe, of Sicilian origin, and it's a very good superstition, I think, inasmuch as it tends to preserve the