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Superstition Of Scots Villages

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23,9

1935.

COULD NOT DRESS HERSELF

Neuritis in Left Arm

my

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Well-kept hair niso plays a big part in smartness. Shining, hair neatly arranged, that "immaculate look," and groomed hands will put you at your best anywhere and anytime.

"For neuritis I am using Kruschen No. 13 ROOMS

Salts," writes a woman of 60 years, "And they are a real benefit, for I coul! not dress myself sometimes, That superstition has lasted fert

arm

so painful. I take longer in the village of St. Kruschen every morning, and the pain Somehow that's synonymous with "pep." So accentuate your rouge and If you want to accent personality, however, be vivid and vibrant. Monance, Fife, than anywhere as now gone. I was recommended lipstick just a trifle. "Pick up" the corners of your mouth by curving them else, was a statement made by the kind that suited me, and I find Krue upward. Do the same with your eyebrow pencil to the corners of your eyes,

by my doctor to take salts of some Rev. A. Renshaw Mackay, Kirk-chen is the best. In fact it is won. You want the lines of your face going up. Laughing lines. Gay and folly. caldy, in the course of an address dertul. I feel ever so much butter, fave your hair in chic, sauey little curls at the nape of your neck. delivered to Cupar Rotary Club do years of age, and have not felt so and I shall always take it. I am recently.

well for years."-K.P.

A short time ago, he sald, be apoko to a minister from St. Monance, who told him that every timo the vllinge children met him they ran to the nearest railing, shouting "Touch cauld fron."

Another minister was attracting large numbers by his eloquent preaching in St. Monance, until he preached on the Gaderene swine.

Upon mention of the word "awine" there Wax 1 murmur throughout the

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The pains of neuritis and- scintica are a symptom of deeper trouble; the same troublo that causes rheuma- tim, gout and lumbago, They are: a sign of an Impure blood-stream. They show that poisons have crept into the blood.

Kruschen is a combination of sixj natural salts, which ensure internal cleanliness and keep the blood-stream pure. New.and refreshed blood is sent coursing to every fibre of your being. Then, neuritis, sciatica and kindred ills all pass you by,

congregation Man Doomed

"touch could iron." Second men- tion of the word led the congrega- tion to feel for the heads of nuils underneath their sente. Upon the word "swine" being mentioned for the third time, the congregation rose, and walked out. Evidently ministers and pigs in St. Monance were regarded as unlucky, and the way to avoid ill-tuck was to "touch enuld iron," -

He thought that while supersti- tion might to some extent be re- garded as a joke, it was very firmly embedded in this modern age!

man-were

By His Doctors Vanishes At

Sea

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A man told by his doctor re- cently that he had only a few months to live boarded steamer at Weymouth and shortly afterwards handed to a steward two letters.

When the steamer universal.

St. Heller reached Jersey the man was miss- Ing.

Many superstitions-relies of the enve Friday was an unlucky' dny for sailors to set out on a royage, yet it was regarded in Scotland as a particularly lucky day on which to get married.

"Unlucky" 13

It they went into certain hotels they would find that no room was marked "13"14 or 12A followed.

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Henderson, aged fifty, a wartime He was Mr. Hugh McKenzie submaring commander. He had recently been living at a London hotel.

The letters were addressed to n life-long friend, Mrs. P. Brown, 12. At a whist drive there was noLondon, and his fourteen-year-old of Ovington Court, Brompton-road, table 13, because people-not neces-

sarily nervous old ladies-would not sit at that table. Most widespread of all was the desire not to sit down to a meal with 13 at the able.

"That," he said, "is a tribute to the caveman's ignorance."

Mr. Mackay described how our primitive ancestors, by means of their fingers, were able to count up to ten. Later, by including both Feet, carly man was able to count up to twelve. Everything beyond twelve was a mystey, and in that way-13 represented mystery -to them-something that was In- known and fateful.

"If you are walking along .n street and approaching a ladder, what do you do?" asked Mr. Mackay. "I have tried this on myself, and I find that if I can see a ladder from a distance and have time to direct my reason into its proper trend, then I deliberately walk under the ladder to show that I am not superstitious. But if I come upon it suddenly I walk round it."

He claimed that instinct

adopted daughter, Beryl, who is at a convent school at Farnborough.

Mrs. Rrown told the tragic story of Mr. Henderson's life to a Lon- don press representative. She said:

"Lately death has dogged his footsteps. He has been suffering from an incurable disease for about eighteen months. Doctors placed a time-limit on his life, but he had gone over that. This end the painful treatment to which he submitted have reduced him to

a wreck.

"Recently he lost nearly all his money in a business crash, and to earn a living managed a garage in Russell-square. He was on his way to Jersey to try and smooth out his financial troubles,

"I saw him two hours before he

I asked him to write to me: left.

have not received a letter

but

yet.

"Until his illness he was a genial man and made many friend."

Was

Mr. Henderson was a native of supreme unless reason was de- Scotland. He was unmarried. liberately put before it.

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There was also the superstition of the falling pleture." It was thought when a portrait fell that the nail which had been holding it up had lost its power, and so caused the picture to fall. The person whose portrait it was had lost the protection of the iron nail. "Powers" Of The Horse Shoo

Mr. Mackay said that the lucky horse shoe originated when it was found necessary to protect the horses's hoof.. It was believed that certain persons could unwit- tingly cause curse to fall upon other persons by using the evil eye, The way to avert the curse was to point something sharp at the per- son. The horse shoe had two points and so had a double value in avert- ing the evil eye. There was a dis pute by those people who studied superstition as to whother the horse shoe should be hung with the points facing up or down. The virtue in having the points facing down- wards on the door was that they epuid avert the evil eye on the part of anyone entering whereas, if they pointed upwards tho whole of the luck was contained in the horse shoe.

Referring to the superstition Associated with the breaking of a mirror, Mr. Mackay said that in olden days, when a malden looked upon her reflection in the placid stream and tho reflection was dis- turbed by an enemy throwing a stone into the water, some injury would come by her.

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Salt was a symbol of endurance and friendship, and the spilling of was regarded as an outrago

it

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