Gum-chewers' sheetlets depend for their circulation upon bold features, vulgar "stunts", designed to be as easily comprehended and as greedily relished by the chewer as a fresh cud of Spearmint, Orbit, Beeman's, Black Jack, Beechnut, or Juicy Fruit.
Knowing this well, the Daily Mirror (Manhattan) splurged, with surprising success, on a topic that even a chewer would have thought to be as stale as a last month's gum-button under a seat in the subway:
LEAP YEAR—AND ED GUELPH†STILL A BACHELOR "Wouldst Wed Wales?"
"How'd you like to be the ball-and-chain of Edward, Prince of Wales,...