Billy Sunday gave this advice to men on how to choose a wife:
“My mother taught me never to buy calico by lamplight; the colors might run. Don’t propose to a girl in her home at night, but forget your glove and call next morning at 9 to get it. If the girl comes to the door in a kimono and wearing slipper on one foot and an unlaced shoe on the other, with her face unwashed and her hair unkept—then flee from her.
“Go back the next morning and if you find her in a neat house dress with shoes carefully buttoned, with smiling face and tidy hair decorated with a slip of a flower—then grab her, quick.
From the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, January 12, 1924
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