Amador Ledger-Dispatch, Volume 1903, Number 6, 6 November 1903 — ODD NOTIONS OF WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

ODD NOTIONS OF WOMEN.

Rosa Bonhi'iir treasured a small lead Image of St. Anthony of Padua as a lucky charm.

Caroline Ilerschel firmly believed that if she met a cross pyed beggar In the inornlug It presaged the discovery of 0 new star that ulght.

George Eliot was a slave to the influence of the hunchback and clubfooted man and did no literary work upon the day when she saw one.

Lady Millais, the wife of the great painter, was convinced that the crack of doom would sound for any one who stepped on a crack In the sidewalk.

Harriet Beccher Stowe belived that It was bad luck to throw away a toothbrush which had outlived its usefulness and, to the anguish of her household, preserved every one that she had ever used.

Queen Victoria cherished a number of superstitions, and, among them, she believed that the removal of her wedding ring would surely bring calamity and that a pet Manx cat would bring good luck to the royal household.—Everywhere.