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THE VITALITY OF SUPERSTITION.

ANCIENT BELIEFS WHICH DEFY SCIENTIFIC LOGIC.

CHARMS WORN IN BABYLON-AND BY ROCKEFELLER, THE TSAR AND SIR H. SEGRAVE.

Modern Beliefs.

There are

Thirteen at Tablo.

expose themselves to special da

Oddly enough, it is the men who

gers-aoldiers going into action, who seem to be most superstitions. armen, explorers, and so forth-

The victims of these fancies are not.

the

In spite of what professors and other learned folk may say most

But now, in the age of science ? of us are still superitious. His Let science be humble. The solid Holiness the Pope issued a special mass of superstition has hardly been encyclical against superstitions and less ashamed of it than they were touched-in fact I think people are particularly of fear of the number when I was young. thirteen. The Lost, cure, perhaps, parents among us saya Sir Ernest, always intelligent or unpractical is to read books like "The Golten who bring up their children accord I remember a dinner-party at which Bough," showing how superstitions horoscopist.

ing to the directions supplied by a a sensible host absented himself There are medical and ate a solitary meal in an ad- arose and how what may be lucky practitioners who have, horoscopes joining room. Why? Becauso one in one place is, unlucky in an information derived from them asjand there would have been thirteen made of their patients, and use the of his guests had not turned up, ether, and the general illogicality a guide to treatment.

A Parsee at the table! Buyera of motorcars of the whole business. Another enn " rend hands," "and no " avoids prefer a number, which contains a

contact with bad men." good corrective is "Amulets and are in all large towns women who Superstitions by Sir Ernicat Budge. earn quite good livings by fortune

Writing on this book in particular telling." and superstition in general the ed great value to a ring which con social customs which have no origin "The late Tear of Russia attach- A whole book might be written on Dean of St. Paul's (the Very Revtained a piece of the true Cross except pure superstition. Why do W. R. Inge, D.D.), saya:

The ring had protected his graud. we uncover before a lady or a The first use man made of his father; but on the day when he social superior! Not to show re- dawning intelligence was to run-assassinated."

forgot to take it with him he waspect. We do not wish our hat to MENJAD. Rockebo contaminated by taboo infection, struct this monstrous fabric of feller carries in his pocket an so that we could not wear it again. engle-stone, which is a charm Why does a housemaid tilt a poker mities." The charm seems to have draw the fire," which is absurd. against chicase and other calnagainst the bars. She says it is to worked in his ense, since he has Not a bit of it; she is making the reached a very advanced age, and sign of the cross against the fire, is believed to be well off.

utterly silly superstition, such as asy sensible gorilla or chimpanzee would be ashamed of. It was already nearly complete in the Old Stone Age:

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There were, amulets at Ur of the Chaldees, and the long article in carried with him a rabbit's paw, but It is to convince each party that Sir Henry Segrave, it appears, of shaking hands is more obvious. Hastings Dictionary contains chap-forgot it on the day when he was his friend is not carrying a weapon. tera on the use of charms and amu drowned Hastings says that mon- Salt was used in sacrifice, and lets in Abyssinia, America, Arabia, keys' paws are used as amulets in is, therefore, hateful to evil spirits. Assyria and Babylonia, India, Formosa, moles pa ju England, These congregate on our left side, Burma, China, Japan, Palestine, porcupines feet in orth Affea. Ifan that to throw a pinch of salt Persin, Rome, Grence, and the have seen hares-fect stuck on the over the left shoulder disconcerts Slavonic and Teutonic countries in walls of an undergraduate's room at I them. short, everywhere and at all times. Cambridge.

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To-day,

(January 13.)

Royal: Lecture "Nerve,Control" by Dr. P. Fen- nolly, 9.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Our Blushing Brides."

World Theatre: "Love on the Lake" Part I (Chinese picture).

Star Theatre "Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City."

Central Theatre: "The Vagabond King,"

H.K.F.A.: Council Meeting, 5.30

p.m.

Ten Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30p.m Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Wednesday.. (January 14.) Queen's Theatre: "Our Blushing |Bridos."

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World Theatre: "Love on the Lake" Part 1 (Chiness picture).

Star Theatre:, "Cohens Kellys in Atlantic City."

Central Theatre: "The Vagabond King,

Exhibition Golf Match at Fan: 1ng: Cruickshank r. Mehlhorn 2.30

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Auntial General Meeting, Boy Scouts Assoc.: St. John's Cathedral

p.m.

Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30p.m. and Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Peninsula Hotel

Thursday.

(January. 13.)

Queen's Theatre: "Not So Dumb."

World Theatre: "Knight of the Burning Temple (Chinese picture).

Star Theatre: "Protection."

Central Theatre: "The Vagabond King."

Distribution of Prizes, Bollios Public School by Sir Show-LON Chow, 11 a.m.

Tes Danco: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m. ̧ Dinner. Dances: H.K. Hotel and Feninsula Hotel, 8.30, p.

Friday."

So

(January 16.) Bascom Johnson on "Social Work Cathedral Hall: Lecture by Mr. of the League of Nations," 5.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Not Dumb"

World Theatre: "Knight of the Burning Temple" (Chinese picture)

Star Theatre: "Protection." Central Theatro: "The Vagabond King."

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