_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.
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