Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1908 — Hard on the Twins. [ARTICLE]

Hard on the Twins.

Superstitions In Little Italy are many and remarkable. Tony is a bootblack—a Neapolitan'—who has the ran of a certain large office building down town and who is much petted by patrons of both sexes, many of whom are regular customers. The other morning as he deftly whisked his polishing cloth across the toes of a feminine patron Tony held forth as follows: "My modder great woman. She always have wonderful dreams. Last night—meedle of the night—maybe twale, maybe two o’clock, she dream she whlppa my two 111 sisters —what you call ’em. tweens? You know eet awful bad luck to dream somedlng you can do and don’ do eet. My modder learn that In home Italy. She shump up, pull ze tweens from ze bed and whlppa ’em bot’ hard, firs’ one, den ze odder. Den go back to sleep. Zat how noddlngs bad won’t happen to us to-day.” “But, Tony,” cried the unsuperstitious listener, “how dreadfully uncomfortable for your little sisters!” “Dasso,” acquiesced the boy with a grin. "But I can’t help. S’pose she might have dreamed of me?”