Show V 0 WHY r rIS IS LEAP YEAR CONNECTED CONNECTED CON CON- IB s WITH FEMININE FEMI FEMI- NINE PROPOSALS r TUE English Illustrated Almanac printed In 1805 Is authority forthe forthe for forthe the statement that the Scottish Par Par- about the year ear l S passed a law to n 11 which It was ordained that during the reign of ot her most blessed blesse majesty majest Margaret each maiden lady lally of ot both high and low estate shall have havethe havethe havethe the to speak ye 0 man mun she likes during ye e lepe year ear If It he refuses refuse's to take her to bee his he lie shall shan be mulcted In lathe the sum of one hundred Ii rounds pounds 0 or less as us his estate may be bt except and always If It he can cnn make It appear that he lie is betrothed to another woman then he shall be free So 50 far tur as Is known this tills Is the first official reference to the reversal leversal of the privileges of or proposal durI during the trIO year leap and ond the tho Idea Jelen probably grew out 0 of the Donie name Itself the Itself the notion beIng being be ing that that during dUlIng this period women vom n hUll hud the the right tot to leap or throw themselves them them- sCh selves S at fit a n mans man's head hend while white it was considered lU nt other othel times An Au early ealy reference tv to this custom occurs occurs oc OC- curs In a work on Courtship Love ove and find Marriage published in n 1600 1616 which states s that no man will he entitled to benefit of clergy who doth in pay any wise treat n a- a year leap proposal with slight oi oj- oj contumely t by Ihu thu wheeler Syndicate Syndicate roe Inc 0 |