How to Choose your Bride in the Late Nineteenth Century

In the first place, see the girl you intend to honor as early in the morning as possible, and note whether she is fresh and tidy or limp and frowsy.

I would have never got a husband if I was expected to not be frowsy early in the morning. 

How to Choose your Bride in the Late Nineteenth Century « Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog