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Bread and water is supposed to be a remedy but this is really too simple. A favorite involves stealing a piece of meat, rubbing it on the wart and burying it where a dog will find it. Another cure, said to be sure-fire, calls for the theft of a dishrag, rub Z' isoc? tv SN iL fV ww bing it on the wart, and then burying the dishrag on a bright moonlit night. Better still is this: Say your prayers backwards over the wart, then go to a graveyard and yowl three times like a cat. Lastly, if you can find a sucker to buy your wart, it will disappear.

Always burn the hair from your comb, for if a bird gets it for its nest, your hair will turn into feathers. If you have a tooth pulled and a pig gets it, a pig tooth will grow in its place. If a dog gets it, you'll grow a dog tooth. Cold hands, warm heart; dirty feet, no sweetheart. Well, that was the case before the hippies came along.

A left-handed man owes the Devil a day's work. Make a wish hat And why is this man smiling Deluged by denim, besieged by baggies and big bow ties, pursued by platforms, don't lose sight of the return of the hat to youthful male style, especially the center-crease pinch-front snap brim, the enduring staple of the mature man. Interview with Barney Edelschick, manager of Cavanagh Hats at 400 Madison part of a national chain: "That's what hurt us, the long hair. I'd say 905e are thinning their hair out now, low in the back but short on the sides. A hat does more for them than their hair styles.

Now, this hat, called the Scottsdale, is sweeping the country. New shape, new block." (The Scottsdale looks like the hat that the smug smoker wears in the Winchester small-cigar ads.) Across from Cavanaugh's, waiting for a traffic light, a young man wearing a white snap brim with a black band, an extra-wide brim, around his neck a tiny silver bat. "What do you call your hat?" He smiles. "New York pimp." On the Mannequin In the window of the Shed House clothing store in Greenwich Village, against a display of striped "hot sox," a mannequin in rainbow suspenders, gingham patch baggies, tinted shades, beard, and black Scottsdale hat. Seen at Elvis Presley concert in Nassau Coliseum, a dapper snap-brim white hat worn with After Dark (magazine) shoulder bag.

In movie "Jesus Christ Superstar," in temple money-changing scene, young pot pusher wears conventional snap brim. Nathan Rosenberg's hat store, 4 W. Fourth near NYU, next door to L'Elite Pizza Shop. Rosenberg: "We sold a lot of hats to hippies one time. They'd buy anything.

But hippies died down abouc a year ago. Everything's a fad. Now the young people dress so alike we don't know where they come from. This pinch-front center-crease with a 1-ineh brim is for the older man. This stingy brim, we call it, is IV.

inches. A lot of Latin people like it. Young men under 30 are buying Panamas. They like wide brims, but three inches is the widest you want to go on the brim. This is the Super Fly, 3Vs inches.

This is the Yancey; that's what Clark Gable wore in 'Gone With the This is the Big Apple cap. We also call it the Applejack. Why are young men wearing hats row? I think they just want to be different." Maybe role-playing too? In front of Grand Central Terminal, wearing jaunty, small green, sweat-stained snap-brim, high school teacher from Massachusetts with sandy beard and sleeping-bag back pack: "A friend of mine collects hats and he started me on it. I thought it was a unique propensity. I'm on my way to Turkey." The so-called safari hat, khaki with pleated band, turned-down brim all around, is big now, too.

Sam Sutherland, pop music writer, wearing a safari: "I picked this up on the sidewalk on 96th St." The Two of a Kind Boutique, 401 Bleecker which sells up-to-the-second fashionable clothing. Owner John Grafenecker: "I sell a lot of hats, felts in the winter, straw in the summer. They call them 'pure although they come from Ecuador now. To me, they're just natural, like shoes, and the movie doesn't have anything to do with it." The "movie" is "The Great Gatsby," to 1 released in 1973, expected to do for the Panama what the 1972 movie "Super Fly" did for the wide-brimmed hat. The 1970 movie "Borsa-lino," named for a famous hat style, didn't do anything for hats.

Outside the Two of a Kind, a young man on the sidewalk with a big center-crease brown felt hat with four snaps on the brim: "A hat is a piece of garmentry that's been forgotten about. I bought this for $25 tt Bloomingdale's. You see, if I snap it on one side, I look like an Aussie; and if I snap just the front, I look like Huckleberry Finn: and if I snap it on all four sides, I look like I don't know what." David Carradine in TV's Kung Fu wears a hat. On the corner of Eighth Ave. and oOtb a young man with a black beard and a ltd plush snap-brim center-crease with extra-wid brim and metal band, tying a loose string tn guitar, an STP label on the cigar case, without looking up: "I lilce the hat." Yes, obviously, but why a hat? With narrowed eyes and finality in his voice: "I like that hat.

I'm from New York." That's far sure. THE CALENDAR "What! And Leave BloomingdaleV?" is one of four one-acters about New York. p.m. Thursday through Saturdav at I be Little Church Around the Corner, 11 E. 2tta St.

American Indian Midsummer Festival with Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Saturday and Sunday at Reflection Lake Inn, West Milford, Call 855-2916 for information. Fresh Flavor from Bed-Stuy is at Max's Kansas City, 213 Park Ave. South, 9:30 and 11:30 p.m. today (Thursday). Five-person vocal ensemble.

on the first straw hat you see in the spring, and it will come true. You may also make a wish on seeing a white horse, but you will not get your wish unless you stamp it. Stamp it? That means licking your right thumb, pressing it inta your left palm, and then striking the palm with your right If you count and stamp 100 white horses, then the first man you see with a red tie is the one you'll marry. Never sweep in a house where there is a corpse, for if you do, you will sweep away another member of the family. Never hit a child with a broom.

If you do, it will make him stupid. Never on Sunday If you sew on Sunday, you will have to rip out every stitch with your nbse before you can enter heaven. It is bad luck for a bride to look in a mirror when she is completely dressed. To avoid ingrown nails, never trim them in the dark of the moon. If you drop a comb, step on it and make a wish before you pick it up.

It's bad luck to kill a spider. It also is bad luck to put your dress on inside out. Don't move on a rainy day. If rain falls on the things you are-moving, you will move again before the year is out. If you have a garment that always brings you luck, do not wear it two days in succession.

Pearls turn color and lose their luster if the person wearing them is in ill health. If you are losing your sweetheart, feed him, one by one, a grain of popped corn for each letter in the alphabet. If he should choke on your rival's initial, he still loves you and you have nothing to fear, Right Foot First If you want to enjoy a good day, get out of bed right foot first. Don't wipe your hands on a towel while someone else is using it or you will fight with that person. When the family cat washes its face, all present should keep very still, especially with a houseful of daughters, because the first one the cat looks at after his ablutions will be the next one to have a caller.

If you sing before breakfast, you will quarrel before supper..