A Guide to Men

Helen Rowland (1875 - 1950)

A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist (in both directions!) and funny. Summary by Cori Samuel.

From the text:

A man is like a park squirrel; if you fling your favors or your charms at his head he will never come up and eat out of your hand.

Even Satan could find a woman to call him "Dearie," if he would simply tell her that all he needed was "a beautiful woman's uplifting influence."

Every bride fancies that she married the original "cave-man" until she tries to persuade him to go out and argue with the furniture-movers.

Genre(s): Family & Relationships, Humor

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 01 - Foreword. Overture (Prelude, Refrain) Cori Samuel
00:05:20
Play 02 02 - Bachelors (First Interlude) Cori Samuel
00:10:20
Play 03 03 - True Love--How to know it (Variations) Cori Samuel
00:06:26
Play 04 04 - Blondes (Cymbals and Kettle-drums) Cori Samuel
00:08:14
Play 05 05 - What Every Woman Wonders (Second Interlude) Cori Samuel
00:11:32
Play 06 06 - Brides (Syncopations) Cori Samuel
00:08:59
Play 07 07 - Divorces (Third Interlude) Cori Samuel
00:07:02
Play 08 08 - Widows (Improvisations) Cori Samuel
00:07:33
Play 09 09 - Widowers (Fourth Interlude) Cori Samuel
00:08:09
Play 10 10 - Second Marriages (Intermezzo) Cori Samuel
00:08:06
Play 11 11 - Woman and Her Infinite Variety Cori Samuel
00:05:03
Play 12 12 - Maxims of Cleopatra (Finale) Cori Samuel
00:07:33