To look into a tumbler when you are drinking is a sign that you will be an old maid. If you look over the side, you are a flirt.
Massachusetts.

To look into a tumbler when you are drinking is a sign that you will be an old maid. If you look over the side, you are a flirt.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 429.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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