Leap Year Presents Quite A Leap

In Lessons In Vintage Postcards: The Leap Year Proposal we discover a gem by Dorothy Dix (1904):

That woman labors under a great matrimonial disadvantage in not being able to pop the question no one will deny. It forces her to take what is offered to her instead of the thing for which she would ask if she had the privilege, and even when leap year removes the bar against her speaking out in meeting it does her little good, for it finds her with no precedent to guide her, no experience to be a lamp to her feet.

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