Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-01
She'll Get Her Man, Leap Year or No,
hree Generations Of Women Believe
e 6ho Choosing Though Mere Man Thinks Differently And Poppme OF
Isn't Hard to Bring About II She Really Wants Him!

the French thought up publicity stunt It's
still field day in France, you knoW-one day in
Leap Year is set aside for Partisan mademoiselles
to come out of hiding and claim the man of their
choice
'I feel sorry, she said, "for any woman who does.
take Leap Year seriously. Not that it isn't one OF
her prerogatives to propose marriage to man If
she wants to. I think that is her right-any year.
But after all, it is mans place to propose
when l was young girl, we wouldn't even
think of asking man for date, let alone propose
marriage to him. And don't think times and con-
ditions $ in that respect : have changed great
deal If a woman really wants man, she is usually
clever enough to make him propose to her."
CONVENTIONAL? On the surface, perhaps.
~ But under the surface all of us are just bit
conoclastc. And man, no doubt, is more conven-
tional than woman.
Take for instance, the opinion of Mrs. George
R. Cooley, Seattle club leader, and grandmother.
A tiny gray haired woman intelligent and
young because she has kept herself surrounded
by young people, she sympathizes with the prob
lens of youth.
81 don't think youth has changed great deal
since that time" she said gently. "And Leap Year
then as now, was something over which there was
considerable banter-I never knew any girl or older
woman to ever take advantage of it.
Leap Year used to be subject just little bit
shocking to the average young woman, she sald
'It was bit beyond the conception of the girl of
my time to even imagine herself asking man to
marry her She would have been disgraced-."
DUT even Mrs Cooley admitted that today, as in
- her girlhood days, if so SLOW so
bashful that he either could not would not pro-
pose then it was quite proper for the young woman
to take him in hand and pop the question = Leap
Year or not.
The cause of all this discussion is really Julius
Caesar who laid awake nights figuring out cal
endar which, every fourth year. had an extra day,
coming in the month of February. Thus, every
fourth year leaped one day and we get Leap
Year.
But Leap Year is wasted upon such young women
as Mona Cloyes, famous stone girl of Tacoma, who
is getting marriage proposals by the dozen from all
parts of the United States.
A year ago it was discovered Miss Cloyes was
suffering from the rare disease called scleroderma
hardening of the skim muscles, nerves and
glands Given up by of physicians as IN
curable she is now the road to recovery Stories
about her appeared in newspapers throughout the
country and her fan mail is enormous,
Leap year," She smiled. I'm getting SO many
proposals of marriage that can't answer them all.
I've even been getting mail from prison inmates,
No. haven't accepted any of them yet. but don't
believe I'll have to take advantage of the opportu-
nifty that Leap Year offers"
Modern woman as her valiant sister of past
generations needs no Leap Year to help her along
the path leading to marriage. She smiles gently
more than little amused, at the much -publiczed
year that is glded with propriety for man hunting
females