River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-18
TAKE THIS LESSON.
Warning to Young Ladies Who Would
Take Advantage Of Leap Year.
Baltimore American

She sat all day long, with an expect
ant look on her face. Her hands lay
idly in her lap, and ever and anon
would give nervous witch. Her face
was flushed and betrayed some hidden
wish. In the morning she had been
CHEEKY and gay, but the smile dimin
ished and faded like tiny violet as the
hours rolled on, until, as the sun faded
down behind the western gable of the
West Baltimore Roller-Skating Rink
the sweetness of the smile turned from
early strawberries and cream to last
Summers cucumber pickles. She was
cross and irritable, and it was a good
thing that it was Lent, for not one NOR
sci passed those parched, dry lips.
The "God of Love-" but not of reason,
started out yesterday, for it was his
holiday. Sweetly clad in epidermis,
washed to the consistency of snow, with
a tiny bow and arrow-made after the
model of the Hartford archers-dang-
ling over the fiesh-coiored tunic, this
naughty little boy felt like morning
star. His letter bag, crammed to its
utmost, swung lightly over his shoul-
der more lightly than the average
letter-carrier's. Cupid's letters were
"tsffy," pulled until it was too thin al
most even to claim the name of "tafiy,"
except that every one who was FORUM
ate enough to receive missile from
his bow, said: sit was too sweet for
anything"
All save the unfortunate spoken of
as "ske' in the beginning. Why she
was unhappy was thusly: 1t was leap
year; she loved madly, but too well !
"Caude, Claude, why hast thou for
saken me?' was the mad raving OF that
turbulent brain, whose exterior has
been described Margarita Rebecca
had saved from the joyful Christmas
tide until the festive tissue and tinsel
paper season all her pin-money. Claude
was backward in his declaration of
love. slowly as the wheels of time turn
ed in their crank of hours, on Deem
Der 81, Margarita Rebecca sat waiting
until January, $780, would throw off the
bonds that bound her as a female, and
make her free to ask the hand of any
one. 1t was leap year; Margarita r.
was a man in loves world. Thus it
was that she saved her money to pop
the question in this delicate valentine
way to her Claude. Any one who has
visited the stationery stores in this city
lately cannot help but remembering a
young. fresh and pretty female, just 10,
wearing love of bonnet, Buttercup
dress, tiny kid gloves, and the rest Of
feminine fixtures, who eagerly scanned
the valentines upon the counter. Ate,
rather than read the lines within. The
feverish anxiety to select one, and the
one could not but help be noticed. She
would stay for while and then dart
off Inquiry of the storekeeper would
bring forth the reply that was "Miss
Margarita Rebecca-," love-sick
maiden, searching, for candidate to
carry her last hope to victory. 1t is
needless to say she could not fine one,
at least to win, as the sequel shows. 1t
was last Friday that the AD1erican man
was in Guggenheimer & Wells, and
Margarita rushed in. Poor thing she
was a warning to all females-young,
but ambitious to marry, and who in
tend to take the opportunity offered by
leap year. Read this and learn. Mar
garita was worn out. In desr GRAFTON
she picked up $50 valentine and
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