The Privileges of Leap Year.
Fair America has turned the oldfatbioned privileges of leap year to good account. If the ladies of that more vigorous hemisphere have a solemn seuse of their right?, they have also a sense of the humor of the position to which they aspire, and have graceful tact enough to show what pleasant amenities might be the result of a concession to their social and political claim*. An amusing lustanco of this has been afforded by a grand leap year ball by the ladies of Norfolk to the officers of the United States naval vessel at that port. Mrs Leigh, who has done more, perhaps, than any other lady to harmonise the sectional elements in society there, waa the leading spirit. She was heartily seconded by Mr Loyal!, a relative of Mrs Admiral Farragut, and other Virginia ladies. The " belles " of the evening were Admiral Mulany and Captain Jouett, who received more iuvitations to dance than any other participant, either in civil, military, or naval, life. The gentlemen wore escorted to suppor, waited upon to their hearts, desire, solicited to engage in the dance, furnished with chairs when weary, supplied wich funs and cooling beverages, and a number, particularly the navai officers, were protected oa the way to their vessels.
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Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 806, 26 May 1876, Page 7
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