Wedding Superstitions

Don't lose your wedding ring; if you do bad luck will pursue you. The bride who flnds a spjder on her I wedding dress may consider herself i blessed. Never wear an emerald for an enI gagement ring. If you do you will die an old maid. No bride or groom should be given a telegram while on the way to church. It is positively a sign of evil. Upon retiring the bride should place her stockings under the pillow. This i will certainly insure good luck. No bride should accept any of the pets of her friends as gifts if she would not have their consequent ill luck. It is said who goes to sleep first on the wedding night will die first. Both should try and go to sleep together. No bride, if she would have good luck, should bake her own wedding cake. To do so invites all ill fortune. The bride who would be rich should slip a gold dollar into each shoe or slipper just before she enters the church. No bridal couple should at once venture f rom land. Stay on terra firma for . at least a week. You will not regret it. If the wedding ring is dropped during the ceremony the bride may as well wish herself unborn, for she will alTays have evil luck. To receive a proposal of manage in a horse car or any other public place means that your married life will be attended by unpleasant notoriety. Above all things, don't get married in a church near which is an open grave. It means the woret kind of bad luck, if not early and violent death. Kise a bride right after the ceremony, and before the newly-made husband has a chance to do so, and you will have excellent luck throughout the year. If you can possibly avoid it, don't postpono your wedding. Better be wedded on a sick bed than defer the ceremony. Love and Hymen cure many ills. Maidens eager to wed should give dlsh water heated to the boiling polnt a wide berth. It means that they will not marry for a long time, If they attempt to cleanee dishes in water so hot. The rustic lover who sees a snako when on his way to propose to his sweetheart should turn back and pr'opose some other time; for let him know that a snake is an omen of exceeding Í11 import. Night weddlngs are better than none, yet they are by no means the beet. The bride whom the sunshine cannot fall upon ís sure to experience troubloua times. If she have children they will die young. To allow another girl to wear your engagement ring not only slgnifles that you are extremely foolish, but also means that you will lose the one you ove best and who has promised to lead you to the altar. Should a bride perchance see a coffin while being driven to the railroad staion prior to departing on her wedding our, she should order the driver to urn back and start over again, or else he will surely meet with bad luck.