1387. While sewing on a garment, should you sew it to your dress by mistake, as many stitches as you take, so many lies will be told about you. _Baldwinsville, N.Y._ 1388. If you break your needle in making a dress, you will live to wear it out. If you tear a hole in a new dress, the first time wearing it, you will have a new one before that is worn out. _Deer Isle, Me._ 1389. If you break a needle in sewing a new gown, it is a sure sign you will live to wear out the garment. _Holyoke, Mass._ 1390. If you break your needle in making a garment, or have to rip out some of it, you will live to wear it out. _Boston, Mass._ 1391. If a white petticoat falls below your dress, it is a sign that your father loves you better than your mother. _New England._ 1392. Crooked pins are a sign that the owner is an old maid. _Province of Quebec, Can._ 1393. Should a friend withdraw a ring from the finger of another, it is a sign it will break friendship. The owner should take off the ring and hand it to the friend. _Baldwinsville, N.Y._ 1394. A hole in the toe of your shoe or stocking, so as to show the toe, means a letter. _Cape Breton._ 1395. Old shoes, particularly the soles, were often buried by negro servants on Monday morning to keep the devil down through the week. _Chestertown, Md._ 1396. Save the old shoes to throw after the carriage, when any of the family start on a journey; it will insure a safe return. _Massachusetts._ 1397. Wear the boot (or shoe) on the side, a rich man's bride; On the toe, spend as you go; On the heel, love to do weel; On the ball, live to spend all. _Boston._ 1398. Hole in the toe, spend as you go: Hole at the side, be a rich bride; Hole at the heel, spend as you feel; Hole on the ball, live to spend all. _New York._ 1399. Wear at the toe, live to see woe; Wear at the side, live to be a bride; Wear at the ball, live to spend all; Wear at the heel, live to save a deal. _New York._ 1400. Wear on the toe, Spend as you go; Wear on the ball, Love to spend all. Wear on the side, You'll be a rich bride. 1401. Of stockings:-- Wear at the toe, Spend as you go: Wear at the heel, Spend a good deal; Wear at the ball, You'll live to spend all. _South Carolina._ CUSTOMS. 1402. Halloween cabbages are pulled and thrown against the owner's door as a reminder of his laziness. _Southern Pennsylvania and Ohio._ 1403. Shelled corn is thrown at every one--the significance not known. _Southern Pennsylvania._ 1404. If a man is insulted and means to be revenged, he will bare his arm and cut a cross in it with his knife, called a "vengeance mark." _Mountains of North Carolina._