Where to Find Him

WHERE TO FIND HIM 1 Get a dog and walk it. 2 Have your car break down at strategical places. 3 Attend night school—take courses men like. 4 Join a hiking club. 5 Look in the census reports for places with the most single men. Nevada has 125 males for every 100 females. 6 Read the obituaries to find eligible widowers. 7 Take up golf and go to different golf courses. 8 Take several short vacations at different places rather than one long one at one place. 9 Sit on a park bench and feed the pigeons. 10 Take a bicycle trip through Europe. 11 Get a job in a medical, dental or law school. 12 Become a nurse or an air-line stewardess—they have very high marriage rates. 13 Ask your friends’ husbands who the eligible men are in their offices. Continued on page 89

A vintage printed advice list titled “WHERE TO FIND HIM” gives thirteen humorous strategies for single women to meet eligible men, including walking a dog, joining clubs, reading obituaries, and becoming a nurse or airline stewardess. The joke is the aggressively practical, old-fashioned dating advice and its implication that women should organize their lives around finding a husband. It is shared as a reaction to absurd relationship advice, retro sexism, or desperate matchmaking.

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