How to Catch a Bachelor

122 Carry a camera and ask strange, handsome men if they would mind snapping your picture. 123 Ask your mother to take in male boarders. 124 Make and sell toupees—bald men are easy catches! 125 Advertise for male co-owner of a boat. 126 If you see a man with a flat, offer to fix it. 127 Carry a tow chain in the trunk of your automobile. 128 Let it be known in your office that you have a button box and will sew on bachelors’ loose buttons. 129 Don’t marry him if he has too many loose buttons! THE END

A vintage advice list gives absurd strategies for finding and attracting bachelors, including photographing handsome strangers, renting rooms to men, selling toupees, and fixing hats and flats. The punchline is the final contradictory warning: after all these schemes, do not marry a man with too many loose buttons, parodying old-fashioned dating advice. EN: A vintage advice list gives absurd strategies for finding and attracting bachelors, including photographing handsome strangers, renting rooms to men, selling toupees, and fixing hats and flats. The punchline is the final contradictory warning: after all these schemes, do not marry a man with too many loose buttons, parodying old-fashioned dating advice.

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