Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-29
GIRLS, THREE MORE
DAYS LEFT FOR YOU
This Present Leap Year is Co.
ing Fast and Then Chance
is Gone.
ANOTHER IN FOUR YEARS
By A, r. GROH.


why don't you write up the fact
that there are only three more days
left in leap year," certain bachc-
lor asked me.
l hadn't thought OF the idea, but
it struck me favorably. And, oh,
girls, when | had looked into this
bachelors eyes felt it was nothing
less than duty, positive duty.
1t would have touched your hearts,
too, girls. There was sort OF look
Of ebbing hopes, OF dumb despair,
the mute loneliness that the bachelor
must bear.
He had been cheerful earlier in the
year, when hope beat high, But now,
with only three days left, his disap.
pointment was such that he could not
conceal it. No bride had come to
claim him for her own. No fair
maides- had asked him to be hers,
"lt's mighty good idea" said
cheerfully, I'll write it up. Mebby
it'll do some good. Lots OF fine girls
read The Bee"
So | comiorted him. And here,
you see, it is, all written up.
Only Three Days.
Three days! That's short time,
girls. Still, much can happen in
three days. Three seconds is long
enough time to ask question, you
know. ..
Before their lonely iiresides sit w.
Farnam Smith, Earl Gannett, DR.. w.
o. Bridges, Jerry Howard, ben"
Warren, Stockton Heth, Robert
Burns, Harry Koch, DR., Leroy Crum-
mer and lost of other Of our citi-
zens, good, sober, substantial men
who would make frst-class husbands.
Oh, think Of this, girls, and do not
harden your hearts.
1t really is your duty to do the pro-
posing. The wisest men know that
man is merely clay in your hands.
You let him fondly fancy that he is
the big noise You find it easiest
to handle him that way, The wis
dom of a thousand generations Of
man-managers has taught you that a
little fattery to your vain lord and
master" (silent laughter) goes long
way. And this is as it should be. You
are the conservator Of the race. You
should be the one to choose the man
you want to bind to your chariot
wheels.
S First Leap Year. p"
The first leap year law was passed
in Scotland in the year 1888. 1T is
statut and ordaint," the law read,
that during the rein of hir maist
blissit Megeste for ilk yeare knowne
as lepe yeare ilk hayden ladye shall
hae liberte to bespeakc We man she
likes. Albeit he refuses to talk hir to
be his lawful wyfe he shall be mulcted
in we sum ane pundis or less"
Apparently woman has done her
duty pretty we'll this year, for there
have been 2,726 marriages III Doug
las county, while last year there were
but 2,404. .-l.-4
A goodly harvest for Hymcn. But,
still, o sweet and gentle creatures,
there are many unclaimed bachelors
in Omaha.
Some OF them conceal their anxiety
under cloak of jesting. Il have es-
capped SO far" they cry with an exag-
gerated gaiety. But, ah. there is
hollow ring in it that bespeaks the
despair that is in their hearts as hope
GIBBS with every passing day.
When they are alone at home then
they drop their masks. Then they
dream OF the happiness Of home and
a loving wife and all that sort Of
thing, you know.
All, if this write-up rescues even
one bachelor from his loneliness it
shall not have been written in vain.