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Buffalo, NY KOENIGS VINE: : bed | i Z _— THE PATTON COURIER LEAR YEAR GIRLS /- 7 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Thirty dayes hath November, April, June, and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest have xxxi. —Richard Grafton's “Chron= icies of England,” 1590. F COURSE that isn’t ex- actly the form of the well- known jingle which you learned as a child, but it’s the earliest known state- or oo ment of the case. Some- thing similar to it is still quoted among the Quakers in Pennsylvania who say: Fourth, eleventh, ninth and sixth, Thirty days to each affix; Every other thirty-one Except the second month alone. A more complete statement, and one nearer the present-day version, wus given in “The Return From Parnas- sus” (London, 1606) as follows: Thirty days hath September, April, June and November, February has twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one; Excepting leap year—that’'s the time When February's days are twenty-nine, And the New Englanders have made it a little better verse by phrasing it thus: Thirty days hath September April, June and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. All of which serves to remind us that February 29 is approaching and the appearance of that date on our calendars means that this is a leap vear. As for what a leap year is and why it is called that, let Mr. Webster explain as follows: “Every fourth vear in which any fixed date after February LEAPS over a day of the week and falls on the next week day but one to that on which it fell the year before, Centennial years which are exactly divisible by 400, as 2.000, and others exactly divisible by 4, as 1908, are leap years.” Mr. Webster's dictionary does not explain how February happened to become the month which would be affected by leap years but Mr. Cham- bers’ “Book of Days” does. Here is what he says: was one of the two months (January being the other) introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa Pompilius, when he extended the year to twelve of these periods. . . . It has been on the whole an ill-used month, perhaps in consequence of its noted want (in the northern hemis- phere) of what is pleasant and agree- able to the human senses. Numa Jet fall on it the doom which was un- avoidable for some cne of the months, of having, three out of four times a day less than even those which were to consist of thirty days. That is to say, he arranged that it sho.id have only twenty-nine days, excepting in leap years; when, by the intercalation of a day between the 23rd and the 24t it was to have thirty. No great occasion here for complaint. But when Augustus chose to add a thirty-first day to Au- gust, that the month named from him should not lack in the dignity en- joyed by six other months of the year, he took it from February, which could February least spare it, thus reducing it to twenty-eight in all ordinary years. In our own -parliamentary arrangement for the reformation of the calendar, 11 being necessary to drop a day out of each century excepting those of which the ordinal number could be divided by four, it again fell to the lot of Feb- ruary to be the sufferer. It was de- prived if its 29th day for all such years and so it befell in the year 1800, and will in 1900, 2100, 2200, etc. Since 1928 is divisible by four, it is a leap year and that may be a cause for rejoicing by some of us, not be- cause the much-abused February gets back its 29th day this year, but be- cause girls and women who have had to wait in vain for a proposal of marriage need wait no longer. They can take matters Into their own cap able hands and be perfectly justified by custom, tradition or what-not in doing a bit ef proposing themselves. Just when the privilege originated giving women the right to do the pro: posing during a leap year is nnknown. It may date from 1288 when a law Admitted Mr. Martin was talking at the Christmas dinner table in his usual manner abeut the inconsistency of woman. “These girls who protest they are never going to marry!” he broke out. “Everybody knows they will belie their ewn words at the first opportu nity.” He paused, and evidently hoped that Mrs. Martin would come to the Gov: ABER C. RITCHIE read was enacted in Scotland which as follows: it is statut and ordaint that during the rein of hir maist blissit Megeste, for ilk yeare knowne as lepe yeare, ilk mayden layde of bothe highe and lowe estait shall hae liberte to bespeke ye man she likes. Albeit he refuses to taik hir to be his lawful wyfe, he shall be mulcted in ye sum ane pundis or less, as his estait may be; except and awis gif he can make it appeare that he is betrothit ane ither woman he then shall be free. Perhaps the custom goes back even further than that, but whatever its origin it has become a fixed part of our social tradition, even though it is probably more of a popular joke than an actual custom, limited to reg- ular four-year periods. For the men who are bold enough to say that they know all about women will tell you that First, then, a woman will or won't, de- pend on’t, will dot, an end on't. But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice —Aaron Hill's “Zara.” If she she will; and there's Which, in the case of “popping the question,” can be translated into the statement that if she decides to pro- pose, she will whether it's leap year or not, and if she doesn’t so decide it wouldn't make any difference to her if every year were leap year, Fiction furnishes several examples in support of the above statement, as for instance in William Dean Howells’ story, “Dr. Breen's Practice,” where a real proposal comes at last for the heroine herself, the lover being too slow in coming to the point so she helped him along. Frank Stockton, in “The Late Mrs. Null,” takes a humorous view, placing his hero and heroine outdoors in an advantageous place. 3eing sure of this desired catch, she said: “Mr. Croft, IT am going to give you your chioce. Would yeu prefer being re- fused under a cherry tree or a syca- more.” There was a smile on her lips which he did not quite interpret, but he said, “I decline being refused un der any tree.” “Well, 1 prefer the cherry tree, and there is just the one nearby.” And if we believe what we “see in the papers,” leap year proposing this vear is neither a popular joke nor fiction, but a very live fact. Here is the news story that came from Em- poria, Kan, recently: Emporia's bachelors, at least 100 of them, are rallying to parry a thrust made at them this week when Probate Judge Wilford Riegle published in an Emporia newspaper a list of men whom he declared were the most eligi- ble bachelors in the city. Judge Riegle presented the names with the sugges- tion that, this being leap year, the men would be available for marriage, and he recommended each one on his list. of the The news of the publication lst spread rapidly Telephones began to ring and the bachelors were fairly swamped with calls from women / a result the men have organized a pro- tective alliance. “Millions for defense, but not one cent for matrimony,” was the motto adopted. If women needs historical precedent for taking advantage of the leap year rescue of her sex. But that discreet woman held her tongue. “Why, Mary,” he continued, “you re member how it was with yourself. | have heard you suy more than once that you wouldn't marry the best man alive.” “Well, 1 didn’t,” said Mrs, Martin. — Los Angeles Times Vegetables Transplanted The carrot "nce grew wild in Greece, where it was used only as fodder for NATOR. 4 TR rg GENE TIE Bod tradition and proposing, dents are plentiful enough. for instance, the case of the Puritan maiden, who didn’t put the question direct, although young Alden would have been a dullard in- deed if he didn’t know what she meant when she said “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?” Somewhat similar is the case of the late Adelina Patti, who is said to have remarked to the man who later became her when he told her that all Paris saying that they were engaged, “Well, why not? I am sure I will be happy.” Another instance is the late Queen Victoria who invited a young man to be her escort and made him her Prince Albert, the question, so the gossips say, and nearly lost him. Which brings to mind that her great such prece- There i8 Priscilla, wis much content to remain a He is, therefore, one of the most elig- ible men in the world for some leap year proposing. Of course, it simply “cawn't be done” in the case of Ed- ward Albert David Windsor, but judging from all the fuss that was made over him when he visited this country a year or so ago and the way in which he was sought after by matron and maid alike, even he would not be safe from leap year proposals if he came to America again in 1928 If some fairy should promise the average girl that one of her leap any one of three eligibles she might name, it is doubtful, however, if the prince of Wales would be the first on her list. For Miss America seeking a husband-that-might-be has a new hero who holds first place in her af- fections. In the United States army he is known as Col, Charles A. Lind- bergh, but to the whole world who has thrilled over his exploits in the air, he is “Lindy.” And what Amer- ican girl would not place “Lindy” ahead of even the prince of Wales in her list of three? Going on the assumption that they the third man be? That might be the most dificult selection of all, for there great variety in the opportunity offered to the girl who wishes to ex- is a ercise the prerogative of “woman pro- poses” this year. This year's crop of desirable “catches” among the world- famous single men include not only an internationally known aviator and a prince of royal blood, but among others, a world’s champion prize fighter, a President's son, a famous scientist and explorer, a Presidential possibility, a United States senator, and a famous editor and author. Who are they? 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