Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1918 — Chinese Omens. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Omens.

The Chinese people never associate dreams with lobster salad. Their artist represents dreams pictorially by means of spiral or curl, as of vapor, proceeding from the dreamer’s head and broadening out until large enough to receive the figures which enter into and compose the dream. They believe that gorillas and bears are omens of sons, and serpents and snakes of daughters. (The ladles have Grandma Eve to thank for that.) If you dream of a dwarf, things will not go well; your enterprise will stick half-way and you will be a laughing stock to all; if of sweet perfume, you will meet women and girls; of bamboos, you will become a recluse; of combs, there will be a separation; of willows, you will shortly travel, and if you dream of a broken bed some Ul will befall your wife s