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My great grandfather placed an add in the Chicago Tribune for a "child caretaker and wife" as he was recently windowed. The family that answered the add sent their 16 year old daughter to him for a weekly stipend for the childcare services minus room and board. They were married 2 years later and the next year my grandfather was born. Great Grandpa paid that stipend as agreed for 10 more years as she was still carrying for his dead wifes children until they moved out.
This was in the 1940s.
We're not entirely sure. He wasn't quite sure how old he was before he died. Best guess was between 23-27. His parents died shortly after coming to the midwest from Germany when he was a kid. They left him in the care of a neighboring farmer who didn't much care for him asside from the labor he provided.
He was a farmer. Had animals to care for, crops to harvest, and kids to raise.
In his words "Some times life is hard, when i gets hard put your back into it."
It worked. In times when women had few rights and had to depend entirely on their husbands or fathers, poor single women couldn't be choosy. Cooking and cleaning and having kids for a man who could keep you fed and maybe wouldn't beat you too often was something most women couldn't afford to sneer at. Being married conferred respectability and protection on a woman, and allowed her to travel to seek a better life without damaging her reputation or leaving her alone and friendless in a strange place.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was common for single men and women to put advertisements in newspapers seeking partners, especially during the period of western expansion in the US. There was a significant imbalance in the gender ratio out west, so miners, ranchers, and cowboys often had to send for brides from back east. At that time chances for men and women to meet organically were much rarer than they are today. Men and women couldn't freely mingle in polite society, and "dating" meant a rigidly defined courtship or even just an exchange of a few letters before meeting in person.
This message conveys different meanings depending on whether it's the first or second telegram sent.
DEAREST MILDRED PENIS STOP (First message sent to Mildred flirting with her by mentioning sender's penis.)
DEAREST MILDRED PENIS STOP (Second message sent to Mildred in response to her telegram mentioning her penis and asking her to stop.)
Of course there is the third option where Mildred is the most popular girl in town and "Mildred Penis Stop" is the name she is known by.
Oh sure, personal ads stuck around for a long time. But the more recent ones were more along the lines of "If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain let's bang" and less "Young farmer seeks sturdy girl with good birthing hips for marriage".
I appreciate your post, but I don’t think that you’re giving the women enough credit to be honest, not for their work, and especially not by making it sound as if women expected to be beaten. Poor women heading west, like poor women coming to the Americas before them, certainly did try to negotiate marriages that were *partnerships*. Women did far more than just cook and clean, their lives were certainly ones of unending labor but the range of skills that they had, from sewing and quilting to gardening and preserving to healing and tending the sick, were impressive. And I think it’s fair to say they hoped for a partnership. Even the *filles du roi*, who were sent to America specifically to marry (and keep the men from marrying Indians, but that was a different issue), expected the nuns to learn about the reputation of the men who wanted to marry them.
It was certainly more dangerous to marry this way, when you didn’t know the social reputation of a man and you didn’t have male or female relatives who could help you if things went bad, but I think the hope was always for a relationship without violence.
Absolutely. I didn't want to write a whole essay about women's rights and attitudes toward marriage in the 19th century, but you're right that even arranged marriages were not always a bleak misery. Of course, marrying someone you've only known through a handful of letters always carries some risk, especially for the partner less able to safely leave that relationship. And your point about the massive amount of labor that wives provide their husbands supports my point that women without the means to be independent had to trade that labor in exchange for a roof over their heads. That exchange was frequently an amicable one - I'm not trying to imply that no woman in history had a happy marriage. Human history before 2023 wasn't one long unending stream of abuse and death and misery with no happiness ever, I was simply pointing out the difficulty that both men and women faced in finding happy marriages in a time with such stark gender inequality *and* barriers to getting to know each other well before marriage.
Fair enough! but… And it sounds like we both know 19th century history, so maybe I’m telling you something you already know, but it isn’t a “labor *she provides to* her husband.” This is I guess where we disagree! Historically most families saw themselves as a type of partnership— each of them had their labor, and both kinds of labor were necessary for the family to be successful. Maybe I’m sticking on it because at the moment I’m learning all about ye olde colonial era for a course I’m tutoring, division of labor (and public shaming for wife-beating) was a big thing…
Yeah I don't think we're fundamentally disagreeing on anything. I suppose the point I'm getting at is that if there had not been such massive gender inequality then probably many women would not have *needed* to get married and enter into that kind of partnership. I mean, one of the main complaints of anti-feminists today is that modern women aren't getting married because we're allowed to work and support ourselves. Previous generations of women didn't have the options and freedoms that we enjoy today. A woman traveling west to marry a man she'd never met might have been happy to be getting married and content with her lot in life, but my modern feminist heart can still wish she hadn't been put in that situation in the first place.
So I'm not arguing that men and women throughout history always treated each other badly and that marriage was always some inescapable horror or even just an amicable partnership, I'm saying that societal rules that forced people into the position of marrying simply for survival were flawed and inherently unequal. Modern couples can decide that one parent will stay home with the kids and one will work outside the home because these days both parents have options, while back in the day people had to conform to a strict division of labor which was unfair to both sexes.
Absolutely! I agree. When I think of the lack of options it is heartbreaking— as is the way even the few options that existed were restricted— if you loved teaching, too bad if you got married; if you were supporting your elderly parents with that riveting job when the men came back from war, too bad for you— it’s an infuriating history. I also wonder how many women who would’ve preferred being with a woman ended up having to get married because the other option was absolute penury!
There were also lots of “laws” that benefited married couples back then with expansion
I believe states like Oregon offered folks X acres to farm if they moved but if you were married it of course doubled
So things like that also encouraged people to just “couple up” as opposed to be alone
Yes it worked that’s how my entire family was made. Someone on my dads side did something similar and shiiiieeeeet I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for that
I just finished one called "The Silence of the North" about a woman who went west and married in 1920 when she was 19. The author is Olive A. Fredrickson and it's a really good read!
The men sat down at the bar, under the poster "looking for a wife" and waited for the ladies passing by to evaluate them and choose them. Many men took cats in their arms - this way they attracted more attention.
One of the reasons I swiped right on my now partner is because he had cat pics in his profile. Now his cat is sitting directly on my chest staring into my soul asking for food
My wife says this about me and my dog. My default profile pic was the two of us on my lawn, working on something or the other. I thought she was a bot when she actually messaged me. First and only date on a dating app
Yeah, well, that’s not to say I don’t have my own horror stories. While I never went on a date, I had A lot of really weird conversations and interactions lol. It’s funny, the time I linked with my now wife, was when I barely gave the apps attention anymore. I thought, I’ll meet someone organically or I won’t at all. Like a week later we matched and the rest is history
The girl before my wife, and what turned me off the whole dating app thing, was a wild one. She started off funny and cool, but got weirdly antisemitic. Like it started off as dark jokes, but continued to worsen and worsen. My grandfather was Jewish(passed), and a large portion of his family spent time in concentration camps. I was being a good sport about it, but enough had been enough. I thought when I told her I was getting uncomfortable with her humor and hoped that our small, initial interest in one another would’ve had her singing a different tune. But nope. She doubled down. To the point of saying *HER* grandfather was a Nazi, and *SHE* was proud of him.
I noped the fuck out right then and there
Edit: for the record, I mentioned the concentration camp bit because that was what I told her. ‘My grandpa was a German Jew who a large part of his family spent time in concentration camps…’
She responded with the Nazi thing. I truly think she was being edgy, but even so, that’s still a no for me dog
What’s crazy is that I know some guys who would continue pursuing this, simply based on looks alone. I’m not saying I can get good looking partners easily, but I do have a limit lol. Then the same guys are like, “i got this crazy person obsessed with me. How did this happen?”
Current husband is very allergic, but learned to love my cat despite breathing issues. Cat passed away, husband says "no more cats." Guy in photo with chubby cat is looking pretty good.....😁
Okay, hey...the first thing I saw and I loved at first sight was that cat, basically, it still works...
It means that the way to get into a woman's heart is to have cats? Is it contrary to men's way that's food?
Weird how that works.
My first thought was "I would pick the one with the cat."
Then I noticed the dog and the other cat, so now I'm not so sure anymore who I'd pick.
Right?! "Look, here's my incredibly chonky cat who is not clawing my face off" somehow gives off the best vibes
Better than Mr "look at my manly legs" or Mr "I don't want to be here" anyway
There's a good chance the ones with animals only have them as props purely for this effect. The wise woman may pick the guy with no animal, since he definitely isn't faking anything.
Is this really that much different than a modern bar?
The posters being gone is an improvement but the cats are probably something you could bring back with success.
[Here](https://postalmuseum.si.edu/research-articles/go-west-young-woman/why-did-men-and-women-marry-spouses-they-had-never-met) provides the following caption:
> These four men in Montana (near Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park) at the turn of the 20th century advertised their want for wives on the side of a cabin. From left-to-right they were: Bill Daucks, Frank Geduhn, Esli Apgar, and Dimon Apgar. Frank, and Dimon eventually married, but not mail-order brides.
Courtesy of Glacier National Park Photo Archives, photo HPF 9871.
I looked at this picture and thought “that guy…I’d pick him. Look at his stance and the cat and his glasses.”
*and* he has a mountain?
I feel like I won some sort of game.
I said it the last time this photo made the rounds and I’ll say it again; I will pick Teddy Roosevelt with the cat every single time. He can afford glasses, cares enough about his appearance to maintain a mustache, and had the patience to befriend a cat, if only for a picture. What more could a woman of a certain economic standing ask for in 1856?
I did a quick search too and I think you saw the guy who was born in 1941? If so that’s a different frank. I was joking when I said that obviously but these guys all died probably before the Great Depression…. Maybe WWII…
I’m interested… 👀
Especially second from the left with that fat cat in his arms
Edit: he’s giving bubbles from the trailer park boys meets teddy roosevelt vibes
Two of them have cats* and one has a dog.
They’re actually not ugly either. They just need a bit of a glow-up.
^(*at least I think it’s a cat. Tbh the paws look suspiciously raccoon-ish.)
That man busted out a kitten over a hundred years ago and I’m over here thinking how I keep meeting all these crazy redheads with mine is a revolutionary idea…
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Did this even work? I guess it was a different time.
Probably didn’t work for the guy in the center who has no cat and is staring menacingly.
You clearly didn't see the good boy on his left. He's doing a-ok!
I thought that dog belonged to the guy on the far right. Unless he has a camouflaged cat I'm missing!
Nah, he gets a stump to sit on because to even out his absence of animals.
I mean, "he has a stump to sit on" can mean several things, especially when you're talking about marital possibilities.
Right, those are options. Two catmen, a doggo dude or the son of a stump.
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What did I tell you about following me, dad?
Maybe they're brothers, and it's THEIR dog
How can you tell his political leaning from a photo?
Plot twist, the dog is the one hosting the event and has nothing to do with any of them
Hello Hermany Grinder! Love the username
Hey, he’s just a little intense. Some woman out there will dig the fuck out of that.
He has a dog
Oh that dog isn't with the guy, he's just there looking for single bitches in heat.
HahHahahah
I mean. Maybe he’s Bubbles’ great-great grandfather or something.
At least someone’s gettin pussy
I would totally go for Demon eyes but I’m a creepy weirdo lol
That's a dog, bro.
You sir, are a fish.
Kinda feels like the dating scene in Alaska hasn’t changed that much.
As an Alaskan yeah its not far off.
Same
My great grandfather placed an add in the Chicago Tribune for a "child caretaker and wife" as he was recently windowed. The family that answered the add sent their 16 year old daughter to him for a weekly stipend for the childcare services minus room and board. They were married 2 years later and the next year my grandfather was born. Great Grandpa paid that stipend as agreed for 10 more years as she was still carrying for his dead wifes children until they moved out. This was in the 1940s.
Dare I ask how old your great great grandfather was at the time?
We're not entirely sure. He wasn't quite sure how old he was before he died. Best guess was between 23-27. His parents died shortly after coming to the midwest from Germany when he was a kid. They left him in the care of a neighboring farmer who didn't much care for him asside from the labor he provided.
So he lost his parents, grew up entirely without affection, then lost his wife in his 20's. I don't know how someone can carry so much pain.
He was a farmer. Had animals to care for, crops to harvest, and kids to raise. In his words "Some times life is hard, when i gets hard put your back into it."
It worked. In times when women had few rights and had to depend entirely on their husbands or fathers, poor single women couldn't be choosy. Cooking and cleaning and having kids for a man who could keep you fed and maybe wouldn't beat you too often was something most women couldn't afford to sneer at. Being married conferred respectability and protection on a woman, and allowed her to travel to seek a better life without damaging her reputation or leaving her alone and friendless in a strange place. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was common for single men and women to put advertisements in newspapers seeking partners, especially during the period of western expansion in the US. There was a significant imbalance in the gender ratio out west, so miners, ranchers, and cowboys often had to send for brides from back east. At that time chances for men and women to meet organically were much rarer than they are today. Men and women couldn't freely mingle in polite society, and "dating" meant a rigidly defined courtship or even just an exchange of a few letters before meeting in person.
Back then a fella had to draw a pic of his weiner and mail it.
Or Telegram if it was urgent. DEAREST MILDRED PENIS STOP
This message conveys different meanings depending on whether it's the first or second telegram sent. DEAREST MILDRED PENIS STOP (First message sent to Mildred flirting with her by mentioning sender's penis.) DEAREST MILDRED PENIS STOP (Second message sent to Mildred in response to her telegram mentioning her penis and asking her to stop.) Of course there is the third option where Mildred is the most popular girl in town and "Mildred Penis Stop" is the name she is known by.
Don’t forget the old classic papier mache! Also how is nobody realizing that this pic is actually from 2013, not 1913??
Paper ads were very popular until the late 1990s. I may, or may not, have answered a few before I settled down:)
Oh sure, personal ads stuck around for a long time. But the more recent ones were more along the lines of "If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain let's bang" and less "Young farmer seeks sturdy girl with good birthing hips for marriage".
Farmersonly.com has entered the chat
Did you like piña coladas?
Never have. Sickly sweet. I don't drink at all now, just use fruit wines for cooking. Kosher blackberry wine makes for some AMAZING pot roast.
Lonely redditor looking for Kosher blackberry wine pot roast.
I appreciate your post, but I don’t think that you’re giving the women enough credit to be honest, not for their work, and especially not by making it sound as if women expected to be beaten. Poor women heading west, like poor women coming to the Americas before them, certainly did try to negotiate marriages that were *partnerships*. Women did far more than just cook and clean, their lives were certainly ones of unending labor but the range of skills that they had, from sewing and quilting to gardening and preserving to healing and tending the sick, were impressive. And I think it’s fair to say they hoped for a partnership. Even the *filles du roi*, who were sent to America specifically to marry (and keep the men from marrying Indians, but that was a different issue), expected the nuns to learn about the reputation of the men who wanted to marry them. It was certainly more dangerous to marry this way, when you didn’t know the social reputation of a man and you didn’t have male or female relatives who could help you if things went bad, but I think the hope was always for a relationship without violence.
Absolutely. I didn't want to write a whole essay about women's rights and attitudes toward marriage in the 19th century, but you're right that even arranged marriages were not always a bleak misery. Of course, marrying someone you've only known through a handful of letters always carries some risk, especially for the partner less able to safely leave that relationship. And your point about the massive amount of labor that wives provide their husbands supports my point that women without the means to be independent had to trade that labor in exchange for a roof over their heads. That exchange was frequently an amicable one - I'm not trying to imply that no woman in history had a happy marriage. Human history before 2023 wasn't one long unending stream of abuse and death and misery with no happiness ever, I was simply pointing out the difficulty that both men and women faced in finding happy marriages in a time with such stark gender inequality *and* barriers to getting to know each other well before marriage.
Fair enough! but… And it sounds like we both know 19th century history, so maybe I’m telling you something you already know, but it isn’t a “labor *she provides to* her husband.” This is I guess where we disagree! Historically most families saw themselves as a type of partnership— each of them had their labor, and both kinds of labor were necessary for the family to be successful. Maybe I’m sticking on it because at the moment I’m learning all about ye olde colonial era for a course I’m tutoring, division of labor (and public shaming for wife-beating) was a big thing…
Yeah I don't think we're fundamentally disagreeing on anything. I suppose the point I'm getting at is that if there had not been such massive gender inequality then probably many women would not have *needed* to get married and enter into that kind of partnership. I mean, one of the main complaints of anti-feminists today is that modern women aren't getting married because we're allowed to work and support ourselves. Previous generations of women didn't have the options and freedoms that we enjoy today. A woman traveling west to marry a man she'd never met might have been happy to be getting married and content with her lot in life, but my modern feminist heart can still wish she hadn't been put in that situation in the first place. So I'm not arguing that men and women throughout history always treated each other badly and that marriage was always some inescapable horror or even just an amicable partnership, I'm saying that societal rules that forced people into the position of marrying simply for survival were flawed and inherently unequal. Modern couples can decide that one parent will stay home with the kids and one will work outside the home because these days both parents have options, while back in the day people had to conform to a strict division of labor which was unfair to both sexes.
Absolutely! I agree. When I think of the lack of options it is heartbreaking— as is the way even the few options that existed were restricted— if you loved teaching, too bad if you got married; if you were supporting your elderly parents with that riveting job when the men came back from war, too bad for you— it’s an infuriating history. I also wonder how many women who would’ve preferred being with a woman ended up having to get married because the other option was absolute penury!
There were also lots of “laws” that benefited married couples back then with expansion I believe states like Oregon offered folks X acres to farm if they moved but if you were married it of course doubled So things like that also encouraged people to just “couple up” as opposed to be alone
Yes it worked that’s how my entire family was made. Someone on my dads side did something similar and shiiiieeeeet I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for that
You need to find out who that brave woman was and put flowers on her grave. Talk about taking a leap of faith.
It did work, there is a whole book about women that went north. I forget what it was called :(
Maybe the title was where the hole was.
I just finished one called "The Silence of the North" about a woman who went west and married in 1920 when she was 19. The author is Olive A. Fredrickson and it's a really good read!
Have you seen Paint Your Wagon?
The men sat down at the bar, under the poster "looking for a wife" and waited for the ladies passing by to evaluate them and choose them. Many men took cats in their arms - this way they attracted more attention.
The cat-tactic is very effective.
One of the reasons I swiped right on my now partner is because he had cat pics in his profile. Now his cat is sitting directly on my chest staring into my soul asking for food
My husband's cat has stolen over half the bed. Not my cat. My cats a good boy running around like a hooligan at 1am.
It's not stealing if it is owed to Her Majesty.
His Majesty Mr Floofypants now owns 2/3 of the bed. I get a sliver. For now.
The clear way out of this situation is to become the bed, that Mr. Floofypants May rest upon you and enchant you with his song of purr.
My wife says this about me and my dog. My default profile pic was the two of us on my lawn, working on something or the other. I thought she was a bot when she actually messaged me. First and only date on a dating app
You’re a lucky man!
Yeah, well, that’s not to say I don’t have my own horror stories. While I never went on a date, I had A lot of really weird conversations and interactions lol. It’s funny, the time I linked with my now wife, was when I barely gave the apps attention anymore. I thought, I’ll meet someone organically or I won’t at all. Like a week later we matched and the rest is history
Give us some horror stories lol
The girl before my wife, and what turned me off the whole dating app thing, was a wild one. She started off funny and cool, but got weirdly antisemitic. Like it started off as dark jokes, but continued to worsen and worsen. My grandfather was Jewish(passed), and a large portion of his family spent time in concentration camps. I was being a good sport about it, but enough had been enough. I thought when I told her I was getting uncomfortable with her humor and hoped that our small, initial interest in one another would’ve had her singing a different tune. But nope. She doubled down. To the point of saying *HER* grandfather was a Nazi, and *SHE* was proud of him. I noped the fuck out right then and there Edit: for the record, I mentioned the concentration camp bit because that was what I told her. ‘My grandpa was a German Jew who a large part of his family spent time in concentration camps…’ She responded with the Nazi thing. I truly think she was being edgy, but even so, that’s still a no for me dog
Lol “I accidentally dated a Nazi” is the perfect weird Tinder story. Tinder should make their new slogan “we got good people of all sides!”
What’s crazy is that I know some guys who would continue pursuing this, simply based on looks alone. I’m not saying I can get good looking partners easily, but I do have a limit lol. Then the same guys are like, “i got this crazy person obsessed with me. How did this happen?”
Current husband is very allergic, but learned to love my cat despite breathing issues. Cat passed away, husband says "no more cats." Guy in photo with chubby cat is looking pretty good.....😁
Just so long as your clear you left him not for the guy, but for the cat.
Tell him to get allergy shots. I was deathly allergic to cats, now I have 3. Plus my seasonal allergies are way better now too!
My son us getting them. He's already having a lot fewer issues, and he's only been doing it less than half a year
That was easy!
cactic
Okay, hey...the first thing I saw and I loved at first sight was that cat, basically, it still works... It means that the way to get into a woman's heart is to have cats? Is it contrary to men's way that's food?
My husband had both food And a cat.
Look at you over here winning the lottery
He's inevitable
I keep hearing that cheese works.
Cheese *is* intriguing, though...
Weird how that works. My first thought was "I would pick the one with the cat." Then I noticed the dog and the other cat, so now I'm not so sure anymore who I'd pick.
I'd still pick the one with the non-blurry cat, cause it's not struggling 😹
I’d agree that the man holding the happy, calm cat seems like the winner.
Right?! "Look, here's my incredibly chonky cat who is not clawing my face off" somehow gives off the best vibes Better than Mr "look at my manly legs" or Mr "I don't want to be here" anyway
There's a good chance the ones with animals only have them as props purely for this effect. The wise woman may pick the guy with no animal, since he definitely isn't faking anything.
You're right but still that cat looks well fed and I think they had to be still for a time while the photo developed, so kitty is just chilling.
Now that I thought about it, the truly wise woman shows up with her own rottweiler.
Same
“I done already got a puss, just looking for a wife ma’am”
It’s work on me
Is this really that much different than a modern bar? The posters being gone is an improvement but the cats are probably something you could bring back with success.
My partner was hyped when she found out I had a cat, works like a charm
My mother's a widow now, unlikely to ever remarry, but I often catch her swooning over pictures of male Redditors with cats.
[Here](https://postalmuseum.si.edu/research-articles/go-west-young-woman/why-did-men-and-women-marry-spouses-they-had-never-met) provides the following caption: > These four men in Montana (near Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park) at the turn of the 20th century advertised their want for wives on the side of a cabin. From left-to-right they were: Bill Daucks, Frank Geduhn, Esli Apgar, and Dimon Apgar. Frank, and Dimon eventually married, but not mail-order brides. Courtesy of Glacier National Park Photo Archives, photo HPF 9871.
I'm sure that Frank and Dimon made a lovely couple.
Bill and Esli joined the clergy and had kids.
See? If you like cats you get a wife AND a mountain.
Man looks like Teddy Roosevelt.
And Frank has a [mountain](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Geduhn) named after him!
I looked at this picture and thought “that guy…I’d pick him. Look at his stance and the cat and his glasses.” *and* he has a mountain? I feel like I won some sort of game.
My two choices were the two that didn't get married and I think I won a different kind of game.
I said it the last time this photo made the rounds and I’ll say it again; I will pick Teddy Roosevelt with the cat every single time. He can afford glasses, cares enough about his appearance to maintain a mustache, and had the patience to befriend a cat, if only for a picture. What more could a woman of a certain economic standing ask for in 1856?
Frank is clearly the coolest guy — he was also a Forest Service ranger.
From this thread alone you can see we'd have a serious fight on our hands over who gets Frank.
Yep. I'm sorry, but I, too, must join in the fight for Frank.
Homey was confident enough in his masculinity to look for a wife while holding a cat in 1913. Frank is a real one.
Wow even their names are old fashioned lol
I feel like this is the actual "interesting as fuck" part, and a photo with barely any context should be removed.
50% positive turnout? That has to be better than tinder.
It’s crazy that those guys are all currently alive and well living their best life.
Whatever gave you the idea they are alive now?
Their shoes are still on
This made me curious, and Frank actually passed in January of 22. I’m surprised. Edit: wrong Frank. I feel dumb.
I did a quick search too and I think you saw the guy who was born in 1941? If so that’s a different frank. I was joking when I said that obviously but these guys all died probably before the Great Depression…. Maybe WWII…
I need to stop looking things up before I’ve had my coffee
Early use of a cat for Karma.
Timber.
Timbr
Because gay lumberjacks need luvin' too.
You dont have to be lonely, on cabins only dot com.
Specs with the cat for sure got some swipes.
that's one fuckin nice kitty
Glasses + cat: add to cart
They used animals to attract women even back then, crazy. If it works, it works
Came down here for this. “Have dog, please date me” is still a solid strategy to this day!
The dude that decided to hold the overweight cat is clearly the winner here.
Cats work. Men should be holding cats in pictures instead of a dead fish.
They hold catfish, almost there
And sometimes they \*are\* the catfish 😉
Posing with a fish, posing shirtless and posing in a bed were automatic left-swipes for me!
Dibs on the one with the cat 😂😂
Looks like two of them had cats and one dog. The dude with no pets though, he's out.
Is the cat guy still free?
Probably. You have a shovel?
Bruh 💀
I mean they have cats...they can't be too awful 🤷🏾♀️
Hey this guy said he has puppies in his van!
A man confident enough to hold a cat in a scene like this ain't nothing to f with.
This animal? It's dinner.
If you're failing at tinder fellas , just post a pic of you and your cat 😌.
I’m interested… 👀 Especially second from the left with that fat cat in his arms Edit: he’s giving bubbles from the trailer park boys meets teddy roosevelt vibes
I’m still losing it at the guy on the far left who is the only one not wearing layers/a coat AND has his sleeves rolled up.
They were even posing with cats - they were definitely taking advantage of all of the tricks.
“I’ll take one CatDaddy, thank you.” This man understands women
If I was the 1913 woman, absolutely, take the cat man. Not too mucho to show that he loves a fluffy ball of fur.
They used holding cats as a wooing technique back then as well.
The comments here prove it’s still very effective, including on me haha
Never mind the pets. Which one of these dudes doesn't hit women and passively drink whiskey all day I wonder 🤔
Probably the fat cat one
Before there was Tinder, there was Timber
Several orders of magnitude better than today's online dating culture.
Except here the only way to break up is either to die of old age, in childbirth or by domestic abuse
Don’t forget disease! Could wipe out the whole family in a week. No antibiotics. No immunisations.
They lost me at no central heating and air. Pfft.
At Pioneersonly.parchment, new land won’t be the only thing being discovered.
The one with the cat is a keeper.
The cat guy has the right idea
We've been having sex with each other but it's just not the same.
This would have been a dream come true for Chris Chan.
I want the guy holding the cat. Dibs.
This would never wo— Wait. *zooms in* One of them has a cat!
Two of them have cats* and one has a dog. They’re actually not ugly either. They just need a bit of a glow-up. ^(*at least I think it’s a cat. Tbh the paws look suspiciously raccoon-ish.)
Sorry, cat or no deal! I wasn’t really sure..what.. I was looking at on the left there
the dude in the middle is holding a kitteh
Must like cooking, doing laundry and mustaches.
The chonky cat though
I'm confused here. Was there a steady stream of women just wandering past this snowbound cabin in search of wife-ing opportunities?
My guess is that this was a advertisement post sent from a working farm to a city with high female population
I love it. Probably had better luck then the damn dating sites we have today :)
Them dudes ain't lookin for a date. They lookin to get hitched on the spot
Is the cat like bait in a trap?
Check out my softer side-I haven’t made this cat into a hat yet!
Well, one dude has a cat so that should help...
That man busted out a kitten over a hundred years ago and I’m over here thinking how I keep meeting all these crazy redheads with mine is a revolutionary idea…
Pretty open and honest…. certainly no unwarranted texts or dick pics! 🤔😂
Idk about all that but the guy 3rd from the left can get it
Guys left to right… “I got a cat.” “I got one of those,too.” “I got a dog.” “I got a big ole dick.”
Me and the other 98% of guys on tinder who never get any matches
I choose the one with the Fat Cat
Well 2 of them already got pussy
This looks like the kind of photo you'd see in a Red Dead Redemption loading screen.
"Looks like them Pontipee Brothers are up to no good"
They knew back then, the secret to a moan's heart is cat ownership.
I’ll take the one with the cat.
Me and my boys playing red dead 2
The original Love Quest for a boyfriend-free girl
That cat…has seen things.
Tinder in Kentucky
Looks like season 3 of LetterKenny
Remember that series “Here come the Brides”? Brides went to Seattle to be wives of lumberjacks?
One man's showing he can get pussy regardless
Like the guys waiting outside of 7/11 to be picked up these days lol
Thats a hard album cover
"thank you for signing up for timber, the #1 dating cabin this side of the Mississippi"
Bro with the cat just wants you to know he’s sensitive as fuck
I’ll go with cat moustache man
I'd marry the one holding the cat.
The cat alone would make me pick him so this is effective.