Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1900 — SUPERSTITIOUS WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

SUPERSTITIOUS WOMEN.

Tliey Place a Great Ileal of Confidence in Dreams. It doesn’t seem possible that in this enlightened age superstition could be rife among the educated, but there are nevertheless a number of young women who converse fluently, if not eloquently’, In three languages, and who read Spencer and Browning and Emerson, but who place a dreambook with their Bible ou the table lieside the bed and consult it in the morning the first thing. With a credulity worth a darky mammy, if their sleep lias been visited with unusual visions, they seize this volume as soon as their eyes are fairly opened and look for an explanation. If misfortune is foretold by it, the seeker after knowledge assumes a bravado she Is far from feeling. “I don’t care,” she says to herself, by way of bolstering up her courage, “I’m not superstitious anyway, and I don’t believe In such nrrnnt nonsense.” But she's nervous just the same, for a couple of days, until other troubles have driven this mythical one out of her mind. There’s one young woman known to the writer who never dreams of a young child without shivering and shaking for days after, in fear of some dreadful thing happening to her. She lias not consulted a dreambook on the subject, and so she doesn't know how Infants and bad luck became connected in her mind,, but, nevertheless, after slie’s liad a visitant of this sort While sleeping, she says prayers of unusual length and then makes up her mind to lie patient under afflictions sore. She's an Intelligent woman, mind you, but she doesn't attempt to explain the terror that liesets her at this particular dream. She doesn't call herself superstitious, of course no woman does, not even the one who won't walk under a ladder, but her friends do. and make light of her until she exposes some fetich of tlielre, when the subject Is carefully avoided afto rw a rd.—Ba 1 1 1 more News.