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CLOVERDALE, TILLAMOOK COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 15, 1916
How She
Proposed
A Story For Leap Year
By ELIN O R M A R S H
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Professor Poland of ----- Woman’s
college was lecturing to bis class, bis
subject being customs in India. He
had excited considerable attention
while dwelling upon the suttee, the
girls showing great indignation at the
immolation of a widow on her hus
band's funeral pyre. A hundred pens
taking down the lecture scratched
fiercely on as many notebooks. From
the suttee he passed to the products of
the country, and the pen scratching fell
off so perceptibly that the professor
was admonished that he was losing
his hold on the interest of his class.
He kept a number of slips, on each of
which was written some bit of infor
mation calculated to attract the atten
tion of young women, and. taking up
one. he interpolated it into liis lecture.
“ Among the singular marriage cus
toms of different people there is oue
in India which is very delicate.”
Every pen of the hundred young
ladies began to send forth a sympa
thetic sound.
“ A father will hold his daughter for
a price to be paid by the suitor before
marriage. A parent having a very
beautiful daughter oc being able to
N estucca
settle on her a large dowry will some
times put so high a price on her that
such young men as desire her cannot
afford to pay it. This makes a market
for marriageable women. Widows may
he had at a very low price.”
A hum of expressions of amusement,
approbation or dissatisfaction inter
rupted the lecturer.
“ When a father finds that he has
been holding his daughter too high and
wishes, so to speak, to put her on the
bargain counter [laughter] he does not
tack a card to her on which Is written
'Special,' as would bo done in America
if we had any such marriage custom,
lie adopts a much more poetic method,
i He marries her to a bouquet o f flowers
and throws her husband into a well.
Since he must be drowned the bride
becomes a widow. This is a notifica
tion to the young men that she may
be had cheap.”
Professor Poland, who was a young
man o f twenty-seven, paused and show
ed a white set o f teeth under his dark
mustache in a smile which was meant
to be a partial unbending from his priv
fessional dignity. A ripple of amuse
ment passed over his auditors, and he
was about to return to a finish of the
products o f India when Belle Ilalliday.
one of those girls who go to college to
let off a surplus stock of mischief,
urose to ask a question. Professor Po
land paused and looked at her inquir
ingly.
“ This being leap year," she said, “ it
occurs to me that this wedding to the
flowers might be used by a girl as a
delicate way of proposing to the man
of her choice. It would be equivalent
to saying. ‘I may he had for a song;
buy me.’ ”
The class tittered. The professor
looked at the ceiling, then made the
following reply:
“ Your method, Miss Ilalliday, would
involve a knowledge on the part o f the
man proposed to of the Indian custom
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in question, which lie would not be
likely to possess.
“ Oh. 1 didn’t think of thnt!" And
Miss Ilalliday sat down In pretended
confusion. But if there was any con
fusion in the matter It was with the
professor, who was at the disadvan
tage of being oue man among many
women. He made an attempt to smile,
then went on with his lecture, but did
not again strike anything as interesf-
lng to his class as the matter of a girl
being wedded to a bunch of flowers and
her husband being thrown Into a well.
Professor Poland's lecture was deliv
ered in February, and Miss Belle Hal
liday was graduated In the following
June at the foot of her class. As has
been said, she did not go to college to
study, hut to have a good time. She
was philosophic about It. "Why should
I make a grind of myself when all the
rest of the class arc grinds? If 1 spent
my time studying, w ho would do the
deviltry? If I were destined to make
my living as a teacher I would need to
apply myself. But I’m not to teach;
I’m to lie married.”
“ Got him picked out, Belle?” asked a
chum.
“ Yes.”
“ Has he proposed?”
“ No. and I don’t expect him to pro
lose This Is lean year, ami I Intend
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j well that the modest young man would
(never havet he assurance to propose
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“ Going to be married to n hunch of
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“ Maybe.”
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Halllday’s indisposition to muke a
grind of herself she did not mention.
I or father was a rich man, and she
w as an only child. Besides what prop
erty she might expect from him, she
possessed a fortune in her own right,
inherited from a grandmother. Indeed,
it would he difllcult to And a reason
why she should, like the busy bee. Im
prove each shining hour over dead lan
guages, mathematics or philosophy for
which she would have little or no use,
since tlie probability of her coming to
want was very remote
But Miss Ilalliday v.ns bright enough
to get what she wanted, and In »me re
spect she knew very well what she
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