Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-08
Leap Year It Takes Good Jumper These Days to Hurdle the High Cost of Living So the Wsest PIan Will be Look Before
 You Plunge

Don't "leap" too recklessly during the next 12 months-even tho it is leap year! If there ever was time when girl runs the risk of jump ing out of the frying pan into the fire" 1t is now. Go easy. Think we'll before taking leap into matri. mony. It takes good jumper these days to surmount the hurdle of tho high cost of living. One can jumr better in single harness, unless one is willing to adapt oneself to every movement Gin economy) of one's mate. "Better half' never held sucf significance before. Husband and wife must each "go one better" in or. der to circumvent present exigencies of living.
 Every year that is exactly divisible by four, except those that are di. visible by 400 and not by 100 are leap years, so the women who wishes to take unto herself man, for bet ter or for worse, now has the -op- portunity in this year of 1920. One wonders how the idea started; one also wonders if, with suffrage and so many new women's movements on foot, it is not possible that in time there will be more truth than poetry Cor ridicule) in the proposing of women to men. Would there be as many debacles, farces in selection and marriage under this kind of re- gime as men now perpetrate? We are improving many things. Would we "set our caps" for the handsom- est man--as we are accused of doing in voting We cannot tell--there will always be women fools just as there are men fools, but surely the strenuousncss of living today will lessen the puppy" and Butterfly type of love we wore won't to in- dulge in.
 Interesting Record.
 The Marshall Islands, eguidistant from Japan, Australia and the Haw- aiians, are called the "Land of the Model Husband" There the husband is the one who must how to the dictates and whims of his spouse; he it is who attends to the household, makes the babies clothes and sees to the comfort of the family. Liter ature on the subject makes no men, tion of the fact that things do not work out happily martially. Why not go to the Marshalls before talk ing advantage of leap year here ? Really, we have in 1920 wide and diverse field for our smachinations!
 It is true that in Spain the woman does not change her name upon mar riage. In searching for a certain deed or paper in village courthouse recently the difficulty in finding it was attributed (by the Spaniard who was looking for a record of certain lands) to the fact that it is the Span ish custom for the wife to retain her ing matter to look up-you girls are maiden name. Here is an interest interested in leap year!
 How many of us ever really knew of woman actually proposing to a man? Few, if any, we think. We would be horribly shocked if we heard of girl of our acquaintance doing this. Yet. trEthfully, we do just this literally every day of our slives--as a sex. Fathomless the strategy we perpetrate in order to bring men to our feet Literally to our feetlZthey realize it keenly when they begin paying $20 pair for shoes for these same feet! We have indeed accomplished feat when we secure some one to pay these bills. A cynic rises up to say that if women did the proposing they would be actuated by material things much more than are men. We'll, a "meal ticket" is a very ex- pensives thing these ys-difficult to chase to it's lair. Whe9ewith shall we find sustenance? Beware, men, this is Leap Year. You'd better take unto yourself a mate while the talk ing's good, else you may be confis- cated.
 What proof have we that men have