Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1912-02-23 | Page 2 | Always Leap Year

Always Leap Year. "It's leap year every year in Papua," said an ethnologist. "The reason isn't that the women are the bosses there, flo, quite the contrary. The reason is that love-making is supposed to be a thing beneath the notice of the Papuan Pa-puan male. "All women look alike to him. So the matrimonial pourparlers all fall on the female sex. "If a man accepts a girl's proposal, the fact that he is engaged is chalked on his back. But on the girl's back , the engagement is branded with a red--- . hot iron." '