Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1904 — Always [?]ap Year. [ARTICLE]

Always [?]ap Year.

In one part • 'all the Russias,” the province of Ukraine, it is always leap year as far as the female privilege of proposing? is concerned. It is said to be customary? there, tvhen a young woman falls in love with a man, for her to go to his father’s house, and in the most tender and pathetic manner plead with the young man to take her as his wife. She promises the most submissive obedience to his will if he will but accept her. If the young man says: “I beg that you will excuse me from this,” she tells him that she is resolved not to depart until he shall promise to take her for better or worse. She accordingly takes up tier abode there and remains until he is wooed and won or until he ends the siege by fleeing to parts unknown.