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A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl

<p>Classic Americana advice written during "the roaring twenties" that explains to young women everything they need to know about men - in a cheeky, irreverent, devil-may-care style.</p> <p>"For this wise woman with the high-spirited bow behind her arrow, these little pages speak eloquently." -Fannie Hurst</p> <p>THE modern bachelor is like a blotting pad; he can soak up all the sentiment and flattery a woman has to offer him, without ever spilling a drop.</p> <p>A confirmed bachelor is so sure of his ability to dodge, that he is willing to amuse every pretty girl he meets, by handing her a rope and daring her to catch him.</p> <p>A bachelor is a large body of egotism, completely surrounded by caution and fortified at all points by suspicion. His chief products are wild oats and cynicism; his chief industry is dodging matrimony; his undeviating policy "Protection!" and his watch-word, "Give me liberty or give me death!"</p> <p>The average bachelor is so afraid of falling into matrimony, nowadays, that he sprinkles the path of love with ashes instead of with roses.</p> <p>The care with which a bachelor chaperones himself would inspire even the duenna of a fashionable boarding school with envy.</p> <p>A bachelor's idea of "safety first" consists in getting tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.</p> <p>He is an altruist who refrains from devoting himself to one woman in order that he may scatter sweetness and light amongst the multitude.</p> <p>There is nothing quite so intriguing to a bachelor as flirting with the "idea of marriage"--with his fingers crossed. He just loves to "consider marrying" in the abstract and to go about pitying himself for being so "lonely."</p> <p>There are three kinds of bachelors: the kind that must be driven into matrimony with a whip; the kind that must be coaxed with sugar; and the kind that must be blindfolded and backed into the shafts.</p> <p>If you want to be chosen to brighten a bachelor's life, first make it dark and dreary; so long as women are willing to make his existence one long sweet song, naturally he isn't anxious to exchange it for a lullaby.</p> <p>When a man actually asks a girl to marry him in these days of bachelor comforts and the deification of single-blessedness, she has a revelation of human unselfishness that stands as the eighth wonder of the world.</p> <p>That tired expression on a bachelor's face is not so often the result of brain-fag from an overworked mind as of heart-fag from overworking the emotions.</p> <p>Lovers look at life through rose-colored curtains; old bachelors see it through a fog.</p>