Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1912 — PROPOSES AS JOKE; ACCEPTED [ARTICLE]

PROPOSES AS JOKE; ACCEPTED

Girl Disappears, However, and Harvard Btudent Is Borrowful by Loss. . . Cambridge, N. J.—Jimmy Ryan, • Harvard sophomore, is conducting a search for a girl to whom he became engaged the other night, and whom he had never seen before. Ryan and two others were neophytes at a fraternity initiation, and were instructed to ask every girl they met to marry them. One girl—“the handsomest girl I ever saw” —according to Ryan, attracted the youth’s eye in Watertown square, affd on bended knee he begged her to be hls. Much to his surprise and to the chagrin of those in charge of the initiation the girl led him aside and accepted hls proffered heart Then, taking two little pendants from her ears she placed them on those of the entranced Jimmy to bind the agreement and disappeared around tlwTcorner. < Ryan says he will find her If he has to hire a detective.