Posted on 05/13/2014 10:37:28 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
The advice books written around the turn of the 20th century to teach women to make men happy are plentiful. Advice books in the same vein for men are rare.
But in 1883, a Methodist minister named George W. Hudson wrote one such "advice for men" book—The Marriage Guide for Young Men: A Manual of Courtship and Marriage. It was self-published, perhaps due to perceived lack of interest in marriage manuals for men. Or maybe because traditional publishers couldn’t handle all the hard-core truth the Reverend was going to throw down.
(Excerpt) Read more at mentalfloss.com ...
“So you are saying pick one from some place so far away she has never heard of Oprah?”
Can’t argue that rule of the thumb.
Wow! Proof this weird book really exists! I was thinking it did not.
So in the time of Jack the Ripper, just imagine, this was the vision of women in men’s minds.
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