Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1905 — A Leap-Year Hint. [ARTICLE]

A Leap-Year Hint.

“Do you know, Miss Clara,” said young Singleton, the other evening, "that your face reminds me of a perfect mirror?” “Does it?” she queried. “And why, pray?” “Because,” he answered, “it reflects nothing but the truth.” “Oh!” she exclaimed, in a tone that iavored of disappointment, “I thought the answer would be altogether different.” “What did you expect me to say?” he asked. “I thought,” continued the blushing maid, “that it was because every time you looked in my face you saw your own.” And the next, morning she announced her engagement at the breakfast table.