CHAPTER ONE
Wanted: A Man

And you can't just advertise in the Personal Column. That would be the simplest, but not very subtle. It's much better to quietly organize your own man-hunting expedition, without benefit of gun, camera, or unpleasant publicity. Without benefit of clergy, too, if you prefer it that way. You don't have to be matrimonially inclined to flick these pages. You may not want a man as a permanent acquisition. Our own amiable premise is that every woman needs a man in her life, and she might as well have him, and keep him as long as she wants him. What she wants him for is her own business (and his, we might generously add).

--from How About a Man (1938)