Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1912 — TO WED LEAP YEAR OR NEVER [ARTICLE]

TO WED LEAP YEAR OR NEVER

Taft’s Aid, Sailing, Declares Life Will Be Lonely and Miserable Unless Bome Girt Proposes. New York.—“ Don’t forget that I've got my flag up and if I miss marriage this leap year, I shall be doomed to a bachelor life and misery forever." This Is the parting hint to the girls by Maj. Archibald Butt, military aid to President Taft. He sailed for the Mediterranean and will be absent six weeks. “I’m not engaged,” he said. “They’ve always got me engaged to somebody whenever I leave Washington. Bat I shall not have much trouble in denying the last report, as Miss Dorothy Williams is already very busy In denying it. ~ \ “The man who does win her will be fortunate, as she is a most charming yotmg woman, and it is curious that my name should have been coupled with hers instead of with some one I know better. “Every girl I meet before 1813 I shall look upon as a possible wife, so if I do get married dbn’t be pur prised. I need this little vacation, as I’ve lost 20 pounds in . the last year and the rest will do jne good.” Major Butt was accompanied by his friend, P. D. Millet, head of the American Academy of Art in Rome, director of the -Une arts commission in Washington afid of the Metropolitan Museum of Art