26 MAY 1928, Page 16

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR - .] SIR,—I imagine that the

proverb, whose meaning your correspondent seeks, refers to the superstition that it"is unlucky to cut one's hair on Friday _or ones.nails on Stmday. The latter half of the Scots proverb is repeated in the English proverb : "Better had he ne'er been born; than on a -Sunday cut his horn "—I am;' Sir, dre.,- 24 Selzoyn Road, Eastbourne. • - • -L. C: E. TOLLEMACHE.