Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1920 — Leap Year Proposals. [ARTICLE]

Leap Year Proposals.

The hostess was the only married girl In the crowd, and all the others were giving their requirements, etc., for husbands. “I don’t care who he is If he’ll never make me raise a garden or chickens," said one. “Mother’s peeping little ones now drive me almost craay. Hl just ask him if he ever will keep chickens and —" The hostess broke in: “That’s just what I did." she laughed. “I asked Henry if he intended to keep any chickens, and when he said he did I just said: That’s me,’ and I got him.”