Show LEAP YEAR this year every pretty and all hornen are pretty more or less 99 chaam out of a possible a as cortiz I 1 undred to marry it is ro that more engagements to hewl are made in leap year than in two erdl nary seasons tho ugh the marriages attendant upon such are usually not so until a ater year for which must be apparent to divry delicate in ind in ta is MAO of leap year the have no better c bance than charming and itis certainly this year alone that saves old lV ellers remark from betag that more than gei married truly cris tian custo m ono year in four extends to the gentle box should bu eagerly seized and profitably scores hundri of retiring ry tiring young ment eligible for matrimony in every w ay iy populate our cities and t owns too modest to propose they are tain too bashful if not too gentlemanly to refuse the fir r these young men are opportunity borsoni por soni tied let the personified opportunity be warmly embraced 1 I eirls he erd advantages over inen in popping tho question abuin never says no when lie mean though lie may often say yes N lien lie would like to sav no 9 man has not the wondrous hilll of a woman in preventing an objectionable proposal A man cannot say 1 I must not be your wife charles but I 1 will bes sister to you oli cruelty a little more kin arid bem fem th an kind for her own sake fair u 11 married woman should not lot this years chance alap throng li her fingers it is true that leap acar mill come again but at aliat a brodig lous di stancel stati bitow that at t er passing twenty five years of age a won ans decrease while those of man increase for mith thirty yeats upon them men caudo to settle down and straightaway seek rome tender miss in her unripe and imperfect teens but woman finds after the first quarter that she ia ono of a spinster sTin ster army on lya moiety of phoui will ever enter the land flowing with milk and honey of every fair creatures be tween twenty five and thirty years the time 9 f wo niana beau tv only eighteen get married to place tho eiguren in another after a nroman bills good to the anniversary of her blite she has but eighteen chances out of one hundred of being wed before slid reaches thirty and as the proportion of widows at that age is nine to ninety one and as nearly every widow is sure to make a capture it is demonstrated that the ninety one girls have but mile wed divide between the m th 0 deacent even froin this meagre divi land is rapid and from thirty flye to forty the aro on a three dourthe cental amrid a t bis 1190 the proportion of widows to spin has largely increment inc 1 it follows that the three pir cent of chances will be gobbled if bat word be permissible in speaking of a lady by the widows while the poor whinny little fourths of ono per benl of chance will remain for the girl without previous matri godial experience from shirly five antho chance grows more and more until at fifty it is one grain of sand to a mountain or iane drop of water to an ocean THE is no alarmist but with all the earnestness of its soul it fair woman to heed the figures which are herein truthfully given the warning al it should be regarded let every mar and as before remarked all women are beautiful more or less make a VOW on this dear third day of january 1888 wilt perform her anty beaole ally and embrace the first personified opportunity enthusiastically let her take for lier motto woman proposed eq and 1 I 0 0 d di Is poses anians heart to ace ept l |