re in it, it is a sign you
will be married before it is worn out.
_New York._

398. If you have hearts in a figure in a dress or in a shawl, you will be
married before it is worn out.
_New York._

399. If you have a new dress and there are roses in it, the person who
owns the dress will be married before the dress is worn out.
_Salem, Mass._

400. Pins in the front of a dress waist are a sign that the wearer will
be an old maid.
_New Hampshire._

401. If, in making a dress, the thread kinks badly, the person for whom
it is made will either die or get married before the dress is worn out.
_Alabama._

402. If you have a dress tried on, and any pin catches in the
underclothing, every pin means that it is a year before you will be
married; hence dressmakers are especially careful to pin the dress in
such a way that it will slip off easily.
_Boston, Mass._

403. If you have good success in building a fire, you will have a smart
husband; if bad success, a lazy husband.
_St. John, N.B., and Ohio._

404. If a lock of hair over the forehead ("widow's lock") be cut before
marriage, the girl will be a widow.
_Labrador._

405. Get a lady friend to knit you a yellow garter. She must ask a
gentleman unknown to you to knit ten rows. You will meet and marry the
gentleman within a year.

406. The exchange of one yellow garter means a proposal in six months.
_Washington, D.C._

407. If a girl wears a yellow garter (which has been given to her) every
day for a year, or every day and night for six months, at the end of that
time she will be married.
_Montreal, P.Q._

408. If you burn a lover's letter, he will never marry you.
_Central Maine._

409. If, at a dinner, a single person is inadvertently placed between two
married people (husband or wife), it means marriage for him or her within
a year.

410. If you pass between two men on the street, you'll marry both of them
sometime.
_Champaign, Ill._

411. If you drop a knitting-needle, you won't be married during the
present year.

412. If you break many needles in a garment, it will be worn at a
wedding.

413. If you draw blood from a prick of the needle while making a garment,
it is a sign you will be kissed the first time you wear it.
_Boston, Mass._

414. Should needles break while sewing on a new garment, it is a sign
that the o