How to Pick a Mate

HOW TO
PICK A MATE

THE GUIDE
TO A HAPPY MARRIAGE

BY

DR. CLIFFORD R. ADAMS

Associate Professor of Psychology and Director
of the Marriage Counseling Service, Pennsylvania
State College. Member of the American
Association of Marriage Counselors. Director
of the Woman’s Home Companion Marriage
Clinic.

AND

VANCE O. PACKARD

Staff Writer, The American Magazine

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, INC.
1946

Copyright, 1946, by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.

FIRST EDITION

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To
OUR TWO DAUGHTERS
and
OUR TWO SONS
Who Have Yet to Pick Their Mates

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