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A GUIDE TO MEN
A BACHELOR'S LIFE IS ONE LONG SOLO--USUALLY A HYMN OF THANKSGIVING
A GUIDE TO MEN
BEING ENCORE REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR GIRL
_by_ HELEN ROWLAND
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PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BY DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, NEW YORK
To FANNIE HURST
Who has discovered the secret of how to be happy, though wedded to an art and to a man at the same time.
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CONTENTS
Foreword _by_ Fannie Hurst 13
Overture 17
_Prelude_ 19
_Refrain_ 21
Bachelors 23
_First Interlude_ 27
True Love--How to know it 35
_Variations_ 38
Blondes 42
_Cymbals & Kettle-drums_ 44
What Every Woman Wonders 50
_Second Interlude_ 58
Brides 63
_Syncopations_ 66
Divorces 73
_Third Interlude_ 75
Widows 81
_Improvisations_ 83
Widowers 89
_Fourth Interlude_ 92
Second Marriages 99
_Intermezzo_ 102
Woman & Her Infinite Variety 109
Maxims of Cleopatra 112
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Guide to Men by Helen Rowland
- 2: Wit is the attar which endures
- 3: BACHELORS THE modern bachelor is like a blotting pad
- 4: Old bachelors see it through a fog
- 5: And that all her old sweethearts are wondering why
- 6: After one attack of appendicitis
- 7: Is expressed by his willingness to give his wife anything
- 8: Don't doubt a man when he says
- 9: Strawberry blondes and undecided blondes
- 10: To collect jewels a sign of wealth
- 11: Love is woman's eternal spring
- 12: Some men are born for matrimony
- 13: She merely accepted what fate sent her
- 14: In order to make it thrilling and interesting
- 15: Never question him about his past love affairs
- 16: But hanging on his neck merely frightens him
- 17: If nothing but their heart strings became entangled
- 18: According to the merry Widow reno
- 19: When a widow comes in at the door
- 20: Matrimony is the price of love widowhood
- 21: In the mathematics of a bachelor one kiss makes a flirtation
- 22: And Paquin models with real brains
- 23: Sending a man a sentimental note
- 24: A woman marries the first time
- 25: The hardest task of a girl's life
- 26: OLD MAID An unmarried woman with more wrinkles than money
- 27: 7 The young man calleth for wine
- 28: A woman's heart is like a frame
- 29: A man never proposes to any woman
- 30: Timorous bachelor should read and ponder