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Speaker 1: by David Wales. Cupid's Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford and John
Speaker 1: cecil Clay. Author's note. It has long been the belief
Speaker 1: of the authors that love making should be included in
Speaker 1: the regular curriculum of our schools. It seems to us
Speaker 1: the most important branch of co education. How few of
Speaker 1: us know how to make love properly, and how very few,
Speaker 1: after making it, know how to keep it. So much
Speaker 1: depends upon the kind of love which is made. There
Speaker 1: are no artificial methods of preserving love, but the best
Speaker 1: kind will keep forever. Few beginners know how to make
Speaker 1: the lasting kind, and many, even of those with vast experience,
Speaker 1: are still quite clumsy. The only way is to keep
Speaker 1: at it. We hope that this book will fill a
Speaker 1: long felt want. Surely, of all longfelt wants, the want
Speaker 1: of love seems longest. It is for the earnest student
Speaker 1: of true love that we have compiled this cyclopedia. Oh Hereford,
Speaker 1: John cecil Clay, and of author's note Part one of
Speaker 1: cupid Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford and John cecil Clay. This
Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Part one letters
Speaker 1: A through Z A the first letter placed by Cupid
Speaker 1: at the head of his alphabet because it stands for amoor,
Speaker 1: ardor art, affinity, affection, adoration, affability, angel, et cetera. Also
Speaker 1: is the easiest word to spell, with the exception of I.
Speaker 1: The origin of the form of our capital letter A
Speaker 1: is supposed to have been an Egyptian symbol c illustration
Speaker 1: representing two people engaged in the ancient pastime called kissin
Speaker 1: which survives even at the present day. A by many,
Speaker 1: supposed to be the oldest of the alphabet, and constituting
Speaker 1: as it does the initial of Adam's name, was doubtless
Speaker 1: the only letter in existence at the time Adam learned
Speaker 1: to write. The words arc Antediluvian, ancestry, archaeology, and antiquity
Speaker 1: all support the above theory. Girls like Adelaide, Agatha, Agnes, Alice, Althea, Amanda, Amy, Angelina,
Speaker 1: and Arabella, whose initials fall in this letter will be attractive, amiable, artless,
Speaker 1: and in the opposite sex most attracted by those of
Speaker 1: ardent ambitious and nas and affable disposition. Absence, the sixth
Speaker 1: sense arrived at by the exclusion of the other five.
Speaker 1: A powerful stimulant to love see longing when combined with distance,
Speaker 1: lends enchantment to the other five senses. Adamant masculine a
Speaker 1: very hard word see father. Admiration from admi, the Persian
Speaker 1: word meaning love and ration, food, love food or food
Speaker 1: of love, affinity, feminine, ad at fenes boundary, at the
Speaker 1: boundary the one one meets around the corner. Alimony the
Speaker 1: fine for speeding in the joy ride of matrimony. Alter
Speaker 1: the forge where hearts are fused from the word halter
Speaker 1: to hitch, amount a foreign measure of love. Anchor the
Speaker 1: symbol of hope see English word hanker to long for
Speaker 1: angel see her appendix see last page. Arm. The arm
Speaker 1: is a muscular string connecting the hand with the shoulder.
Speaker 1: A man can give his arm without giving his hand.
Speaker 1: Coat of arms, Cupid's heart shaped shield, gulls pierced by
Speaker 1: an arrow, argent crest on, an olive branch, a dove,
Speaker 1: a proper ringed door. Flat pant Ash's fashionable lenten head dress,
Speaker 1: especially effective when combined with sackcloth, a vowel, a showdown
Speaker 1: in the game of love. B B is supposed to
Speaker 1: take its shape from the popular and industrious insect known
Speaker 1: as the bee sea illustration. Others claim that its form
Speaker 1: is copied from the curves of Cupid's bow. In either case,
Speaker 1: its chief characteristic is busyness. B is a letter beloved
Speaker 1: of all, bashful, bouncing, beautiful, and bonnie, all of which
Speaker 1: pleasing attributes are the natural inheritance of the girls to
Speaker 1: whose lot the initial bee shall fall. See Betty, Bella, Bertha, Bridget,
Speaker 1: and Belinda. The most congenial qualities of the opposite sex
Speaker 1: will be bravery, brawn, briskness, and brains. Baby a small
Speaker 1: thing somewhat resembling a Cupid without wings. Bachelor neuter, an
Speaker 1: immune balcony Cupid's fire escape beauty neuter an affection of
Speaker 1: the skin taking, but not contagious. Most popular American export,
Speaker 1: best best girl see her Bill, Si coup bird see
Speaker 1: hat blush, a weakness of youth and an accomplished men
Speaker 1: of experience the pink of impropriety. Bond. There are two kinds,
Speaker 1: the United States bonds and Cupid's bonds of the United
Speaker 1: State bravery, a quality looked for in man found in woman,
Speaker 1: the personal adornment of a woman and the mental adornment
Speaker 1: of a man. Breach breach of promised suit a suit
Speaker 1: made to fit the devil, but sometimes worn by Cupid.
Speaker 1: Break to break hearts, popular pastime of the American girl.
Speaker 1: Brute neuter a husband se c is the curliest of
Speaker 1: all the letters. It takes its shape from the first
Speaker 1: golden curl given as a love token by Cupid to
Speaker 1: Psyche when he found her again after their first quarrel,
Speaker 1: thus originating the Society of Psychical Research and the engagement
Speaker 1: ring see. Being the initial of Cupid has many of
Speaker 1: his charming graces, being careless, coquettish, capricious, clandestine, clinging, and curious.
Speaker 1: These charms will also be found in the maids who
Speaker 1: follow the curly initial Sea. Among the Sea girls are
Speaker 1: the following Chloe, Clarinda, Clarice, Clara, Clementine, Catherine, Constance, Cynthia,
Speaker 1: and Carol. The attractive qualities of their affinities are candor, coolness, cynicism, cleverness,
Speaker 1: and cash. Cake. Wedding cake a sacharine monument to the
Speaker 1: memory of love. Care the mother of thrift and the
Speaker 1: child of extravagance. If you do not take it before marriage,
Speaker 1: it will overtake you. After caress a sort of dope,
Speaker 1: very enjoyable cash, a sort of window fastener to keep
Speaker 1: love from flying out. Cad masculine, the other man, cat feminine,
Speaker 1: the other woman. Chair a small, ingeniously constructed seat for
Speaker 1: two people, called after Jeops, the inventor. The first chair
Speaker 1: was presented to Cassiopeia and now appears in the constellation
Speaker 1: of that name. Cheese part of Cupid's menu, bread and
Speaker 1: cheese and kisses. Clock. A paradoxical chaperone who is least
Speaker 1: in the way when it doesn't go company two consent
Speaker 1: see papa coup see bill courtship a picturesque gateway to
Speaker 1: a commonplace estate crowd three cure of love, marriage curiosity,
Speaker 1: the taper which lights the flame of love. Curl feminine
Speaker 1: a man trap verb two curl. The dog curls up
Speaker 1: to sleep, the cat curl up to sleep. Even my
Speaker 1: lady curls up to sleep cinec One who has been
Speaker 1: stung d. The letter D dates from about nine sixty
Speaker 1: seven b c. Hippopotamia, one of Solomon's many wives, having
Speaker 1: been blessed with no children, had a little pet animal,
Speaker 1: presumably much like the modern lapdog, of which she was
Speaker 1: very fond and was forever exclaiming of it, isn't it dear,
Speaker 1: or isn't it darling? Solomon would invariably reply, no dog
Speaker 1: on it, and sometimes even no damn it. Then Hippopotamia
Speaker 1: would smile, disclosing two very lovely dimples. Realizing the usefulness
Speaker 1: of such words, Solomon created the letter D in order
Speaker 1: to be able to spell them in the hieroglyphics of
Speaker 1: the times. It was written as this fragment will show
Speaker 1: the form being taken from Hippopotamia's little pet dog. Hydrophobia.
Speaker 1: D has turned out to be one of the most
Speaker 1: useful letters in Cupid's alphabet, beginning as it does dearie ducky, dreams, delight, determination,
Speaker 1: and desire, but it has an unhappy side in don't
Speaker 1: disappointment and despair. The girls under these letters are all darlings,
Speaker 1: see any one of them darling from dearling a little deer,
Speaker 1: sometimes excessively dear, dear, beloved. Also expensive dawn a term
Speaker 1: for early morning used by people who don't have to
Speaker 1: get up defects what a woman loves, a man for delusion, hopes, dressmaker, desire,
Speaker 1: love's partner, dimple feminine, a pitfall in a garden of
Speaker 1: blush roses, doggerel rhyme without reason, generally written by puppies.
Speaker 1: Doe that which is needed, a slang word for money.
Speaker 1: Dove a tender foul popular both in poetry and cookery
Speaker 1: books when too old to rose or broil. May be
Speaker 1: served up in verse as the emblem of conjugal love.
Speaker 1: Dream feminine term used by a woman describing a hat,
Speaker 1: mass term describing the woman, used by the man who
Speaker 1: is destined to buy the hat. Duel the highest compliment
Speaker 1: two men can pay one woman duty. A millstone, sometimes
Speaker 1: mistaken by Cupid for a heart, what we expect in
Speaker 1: others E. The letter E takes its shape from the elephant,
Speaker 1: in whose symbolical anatomy it plays the most important part.
Speaker 1: It is the belief of scientist that no animal has
Speaker 1: been responsible for more exclamations expressive of amazement than the elephant.
Speaker 1: The presence of E in ejaculation extraordinary, e gad enormous
Speaker 1: is directly traceable to the close relation of the letter
Speaker 1: to that popular pachyderm. The girls under e, for instance Edith,
Speaker 1: eleanor Elizabeth, Els, Emily, Emma, Esther, Eunice, Evangeline, and Evelina
Speaker 1: are distinguished for EA's elegance, excitability, and economy, and will
Speaker 1: be most attracted to the opposite sex by extravagance, eccentricity
Speaker 1: and early rising escape, divorce, eternity. Oh, I'll be down
Speaker 1: in a minute, evil a while of the devil, ever
Speaker 1: and forever, the devil of a while, excuse self accusation,
Speaker 1: experience and expensive tutor eyebrow, a mustache worn over the eye,
Speaker 1: an incentive to sonnets. F The form of the letter
Speaker 1: f I was first discovered on an ancient fragment of
Speaker 1: pottery by a German archaeologist, in the shape of a
Speaker 1: sandal on what is supposed to be the foot of Achilles.
Speaker 1: As will be seen in the accompanying cut, the heel
Speaker 1: of the sandal and the part covering what is known
Speaker 1: as the tendon of Achilles is peculiarly designed for the
Speaker 1: protection of that part of the foot, which was the
Speaker 1: only vulnerable spot in achilles foot. This can at best
Speaker 1: be accepted only as an ingenious conjecture. F girls will
Speaker 1: be frank, fragile, and fastidious, and those named Fanny, Felicia, Flora, Fidelia, Florence, Francis,
Speaker 1: or flow will find their affinities in those of the
Speaker 1: opposite sex, who are fearless, thickle, and fantastic. Fainting obsolete
Speaker 1: a feminine maneuver. Fashion feminine the sum of all the
Speaker 1: virtues fig fig leaf a fall fashion of a false
Speaker 1: motif fast see figure one. First first love, an appetizer,
Speaker 1: first kiss. Much has been written about the exquisite joy
Speaker 1: of this, Still it is unsatisfying, Hence the second, the third,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Ad lib Flirtation a way for two people
Speaker 1: who are not married to each other to pass the time.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, a flirtation isn't anything. It's
Speaker 1: a thing to do, and is really easier to do
Speaker 1: than to describe. There are many sorts of flirtation. The
Speaker 1: every day or sidewalk flirtation is the commonest kind. Other
Speaker 1: very popular forms are the eye, the eyebrow, the fan,
Speaker 1: the glove, the handkerchief, and the foot. Flirtation a natural
Speaker 1: attribute to woman, but an easily acquired accomplishment in man.
Speaker 1: Forever Love's promissory note subject to discount G. The present
Speaker 1: form of the letter G is derived from the ancient
Speaker 1: Babylonian symbol for G. The letter in its present shape
Speaker 1: is composed of only half of the Babylonian symbol, which
Speaker 1: is properly written GG or gg C cut. When we
Speaker 1: consider that without this letter there could be no girls
Speaker 1: in the world, we should be thankful for G. In fact,
Speaker 1: we are in favor of its being made the national
Speaker 1: thanksgiving letter. Gertrude, Georgiana, Grace, and all the girls of
Speaker 1: this letter will be glorious with their generosity, gentleness, grace,
Speaker 1: and gaiety, and cannot be won by gold or gems.
Speaker 1: He who would win one of these must be guileless
Speaker 1: and go ahead. Garter c N a species of serpent
Speaker 1: gas gaslight a light often too weak for one, and
Speaker 1: generally too strong for two. The fainter the gas, the braver,
Speaker 1: the beau. Shakespeare girl, the beginning of trouble, and apple
Speaker 1: blossom in the garden of love, gooseberry an unbidden fruit, gossip,
Speaker 1: nothing to speak of. Grass widow. A grass widow is
Speaker 1: a widow which makes hey h. The eighth letter of
Speaker 1: Cupid's alphabet takes its form from the Hittite symbol meaning
Speaker 1: an heir has been born to his house. The symbol,
Speaker 1: as shown in the cut represents two Hittite gentlemen shaking hands.
Speaker 1: The gladder looking one is the proud father and is
Speaker 1: being congratulated upon the birth of his first son. Girls
Speaker 1: did not count for so much then as now. In
Speaker 1: later symbolic writing, this symbol came to stand for a
Speaker 1: pleasant or good natured greeting, as shown in such words
Speaker 1: as Howdy Hittite, how North American Indian, Howdi dew, New England,
Speaker 1: and Hello telephonic and hail. It would be hard to
Speaker 1: reckon the immense amount of good this letter has done.
Speaker 1: For without hell and headache, how many of us would
Speaker 1: be good? And oh the joys of life? For without age,
Speaker 1: where would happiness and the honeymoon be? And where heart, hope,
Speaker 1: health and harmony. Girls under this sign will be handsome, honest,
Speaker 1: and home loving. But those named Helen, Harriet, Henrietta, and
Speaker 1: Hannah seem to be easily hypnotized by hollow, hypocritical humbugs
Speaker 1: of the opposite sex. Hooray, happiness, the mainspring of the
Speaker 1: good time piece heaven all in her eye heart the
Speaker 1: ticker in the burst of love, horticulture see Cupid's almanac.
Speaker 1: Hell an expression of petulance, hesitation, the thief of good times, honesty,
Speaker 1: a bunker in the game of love, honeymoon, the sugar
Speaker 1: on the bread of matrimony, hope, the child of care
Speaker 1: and pretty sister of despair. I, the letter I spells
Speaker 1: by itself the most popular word in our language, though
Speaker 1: under cupid spell the word you is more thought of,
Speaker 1: you and I being often the most happy of Cupid's combination,
Speaker 1: I is the most attenuated letter of the alphabet by some.
Speaker 1: The letter I is supposed to have possessed originally a
Speaker 1: well rounded and ornate figure, having been worn to its
Speaker 1: present threadlike shape by constant use in speech and writing.
Speaker 1: When not acting in its popular capacity a first person pronoun,
Speaker 1: I is anything but popular as a letter, standing as
Speaker 1: it does for indifference, irksomeness, insignificance, industry, and other uncongenial things.
Speaker 1: I has a leaning to the cold and classic in
Speaker 1: its choice of females, some of its favorites being ethigenia, irene,
Speaker 1: imogen idias, and iolante. To these ladies, the most appealing
Speaker 1: masculine qualities will be irony, idleness, independence, and impecuniosity. I
Speaker 1: the most popular letter in the alphabet. If the drawbridge
Speaker 1: to the Castle of Hope, Illusion, loves Taylor and arts
Speaker 1: servant ink, the stuff that bills, books and billy doo
Speaker 1: are made of innocence, a moral vacuum. J. Jay, we
Speaker 1: are confident, takes the shape from one of Venus's doves.
Speaker 1: We don't know which one, but we think it is
Speaker 1: the dove of peace, or possibly the turtle dove. We
Speaker 1: are quite sure it is not from the ring dove.
Speaker 1: To strengthen our theory, we present herewith a cut of
Speaker 1: a fragment of a loving cup presented to Cupid at
Speaker 1: a dinner given in his honor by the ancient and
Speaker 1: honorable Society of Psychic Research, just when we cannot tell,
Speaker 1: for unfortunately the date is only left in part. But
Speaker 1: it must have been long, long ago, when love was
Speaker 1: very young. There has been much controversy over this fragment,
Speaker 1: some claiming it to represent a jaybird and others a duck,
Speaker 1: some an owl because of the moon in its eye.
Speaker 1: But we are sure it's a love of a dove.
Speaker 1: Why because a jaybird is blue, a duck has webbed
Speaker 1: feet and an owl a hooked bill. It is a
Speaker 1: jolly letter and has been the beginning of much joy
Speaker 1: and foolish jealousy. The worst thing it ever did was
Speaker 1: when it started the word jilt. The men most attractive
Speaker 1: to such jolly girls as Jane, Julia, Josephine, Jemima, Juliet,
Speaker 1: and Juliana are those of just but jovial disposition. Jealousy,
Speaker 1: Cupid's shadow, jest see life, life is a jest, and
Speaker 1: all things show it. I thought so once, but now
Speaker 1: I know it. Gay's epigraph jilt an angel unawares. Originally jolt,
Speaker 1: I e. A jolt on the path of true love
Speaker 1: which never runs smooth. Schopenhauer, in his great work on
Speaker 1: Dutch Treats, spells it a chit and gives it as
Speaker 1: an obsolete past tense of the verb to chill joy.
Speaker 1: The libretto of laughter June the time to make hay k.
Speaker 1: The form of the letter K we trace to the
Speaker 1: Assyrian cheribus figure of Karudbi the Mighty, who stood at
Speaker 1: the gateway of earthly happiness and guarded the pass way
Speaker 1: of true love. It is strange that these composite boy
Speaker 1: bird figures were also known as she die. The nearest
Speaker 1: word we have to which is the hebrew schat dim devils. Unquestionably,
Speaker 1: it is from the word karubi that we get our
Speaker 1: word cubid or cupid. The girls under this sign are
Speaker 1: usually called Katherine, meaning pure, or one of its diminutives
Speaker 1: Kitty or Kate. They are always kind and extremely kissable,
Speaker 1: while the men are apt to be keen, knowledge seeker,
Speaker 1: and knightly. Keth pronounced keth Arabic slang to loaf happily,
Speaker 1: to invite one's soul, the action of doing nothing, kindness,
Speaker 1: the larger half of the other boy's apple. King the
Speaker 1: card that takes the queen. Kis mate a young lady
Speaker 1: one is on kissing terms with kismet, originally kiss met,
Speaker 1: meaning good luck. Kiss a course of procedure cunningly designed
Speaker 1: for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when
Speaker 1: words are superfluous. Kissing sea under mustache a pastime of
Speaker 1: the unmarried. Nie an adjustable animated set tee designed for
Speaker 1: the use of ladies. Knowledge Dame Nature's lover, not an entanglement.
Speaker 1: L Long long ago, the god of love was supposed
Speaker 1: to dwell in the moon and was called Lemmic, the
Speaker 1: moon god, from the sometimes startling effect moonlight had upon
Speaker 1: the sentimental It was believed that the moonbeams were the
Speaker 1: arrows of the god of love, Cupid's arrows. Hence this
Speaker 1: symbol sea cut came to mean affection, and from it
Speaker 1: came the letter L, ranking very high in Cupid's alphabet,
Speaker 1: beginning as it does, the most important word in the
Speaker 1: history of the world world Love. The symbol was usually
Speaker 1: found as in Cupid's alphabet, following the symbol of kubid
Speaker 1: and meaning that love follows in the path of Cupid.
Speaker 1: The Neo Babylonian characters are the most sentimental ever known,
Speaker 1: as they are made up almost entirely of arrangements of
Speaker 1: this symbol slightly conventionalized Lois, Laura, Leonora, Lucy, Lydia, Lucretia, Luise,
Speaker 1: and Lucinda. The women under this sign are languid, luscious,
Speaker 1: lackadaisical and loving, while the men are usually named lionel
Speaker 1: and are light hearted and lazy. Note it is interesting
Speaker 1: to note the Chinese use of the same symbol surrounded
Speaker 1: by tears pronounced sim meaning heart lap a pillow. C
Speaker 1: Gray here rests his head upon the lap of earth, lips,
Speaker 1: the two edges or borders of the mouth, the tw
Speaker 1: two fleshy or muscular parts composing the opening of the mouth,
Speaker 1: generally used for kissing, cussing, and conversation. Loneliness, an instigation,
Speaker 1: the married man's meat, the single man's poison, lottery from
Speaker 1: lot state, a rye askew, a cynical definition of marriage. Love,
Speaker 1: a transitory derangement of all the five senses, the chemistry
Speaker 1: of attraction, lure. Cupid's signposts not always safe to follow,
Speaker 1: they may be found in many and fantastic shapes, such
Speaker 1: as a bow of ribbon, a stray ringlet, a sidelong glance,
Speaker 1: a sigh, or a breath of heliotrope m m is
Speaker 1: so ancient that no one really knows where it came from. However,
Speaker 1: because of the fragment of the jar shown here, sea
Speaker 1: cut found just outside the Garden of Eden and representing
Speaker 1: two outsiders bargaining the origin of this letter has been
Speaker 1: credited to the Hebrews and is interesting in showing the
Speaker 1: politeness of these early people. Money, Moses, and mercantile all
Speaker 1: strengthen this theory. Girls of this letter will be modest
Speaker 1: and will have merry and magnetic dispositions, and will be
Speaker 1: most happy when married to masterful, manly men of means.
Speaker 1: The one thing to mar this letter is its connection
Speaker 1: with the word mitten. Marriage, the conventional ending of a
Speaker 1: love affair, a lonesome state, memory, a thing to forget
Speaker 1: with mirror her mirror, cupid's cook stove, misery, lover of company, modesty,
Speaker 1: conscious purity, mole, the exception that proves the rule money.
Speaker 1: See uncle monogamy sometimes spelled monotony moon, a planetary old
Speaker 1: maid who busies herself about other people's love affairs, and
Speaker 1: the recipient of love confidences missus the okay of respectability. Mustache,
Speaker 1: As a kipling says, kissing a man without a mustache
Speaker 1: is like eating an egg without salt. The question was
Speaker 1: recently put before the ten million subscribers of The Perfect
Speaker 1: Lady's Home Journal, every one of whom, without a single exception,
Speaker 1: replied that she did not know, never having eaten an
Speaker 1: egg without salt. A masculine note. If she is an
Speaker 1: m girl, you will be lucky. If her name is
Speaker 1: Melinda or Miriam or Mabel or Miranda or Millicent or
Speaker 1: Maud or Mehitabel, or Magdalen or Mariah or Minerva or
Speaker 1: Marion or Minha or Margaret or Matilda or Marcia or
Speaker 1: mary Anne or Melissa or Martha or Mary n is
Speaker 1: the sign of the negative and is found in the
Speaker 1: form of an eel on an ancient Egyptian tablet from
Speaker 1: a lady refusing her hand in marriage and slipping out
Speaker 1: of it in a nice and graceful manner, evidently the
Speaker 1: symbol of polite refusal. N Girls like Nora and Nancy
Speaker 1: Annell will be nice and naive and sometimes naughty. It
Speaker 1: is not a popular letter with men because of its
Speaker 1: association with nervous, no never, and numb nature. Dame Nature,
Speaker 1: the mistress of the house of life in which love
Speaker 1: is ever the favored guest. Neglect a breakfast food of love.
Speaker 1: Never a feminine sign of yielding. No feminine for yes nothing,
Speaker 1: the boundaries of the universe and of love. Number Cupid's
Speaker 1: lucky number two oh oh has its origin in the
Speaker 1: wedding ring and is the symbol of eternity. It seems
Speaker 1: to have been used by all the people of the earth,
Speaker 1: as we find in the Babylonian Archaic, Old Aramian Cypriot
Speaker 1: and practically in all writings of all times. From its
Speaker 1: very shape, it means happiness and content o girls will
Speaker 1: be orderly, and in olden times we're fond of osculation.
Speaker 1: The men are often odd, ostentatious, and overbearing. Oceans a
Speaker 1: minute measure of love. Oh, an exclamation meaning this is
Speaker 1: so sudden. Onions should never be eaten alone. Opportunity an
Speaker 1: invitation of fate, osculation a game of chance, own to
Speaker 1: possess from onus a burden. P P in its primitive form,
Speaker 1: was the symbol of pairing, being as the cut shows
Speaker 1: a combination of you and I, the sort of thing
Speaker 1: a bashful lover would carve on a tree or stone,
Speaker 1: or scratch in the sand when taking a walk with
Speaker 1: his adored one. It seems natural that it should stand
Speaker 1: for perfume, poetry, pastime, pleasure, passion, panacea, paradise, and peace.
Speaker 1: In Cupi's alphabet, to prevent the slightest breath of scandal,
Speaker 1: it is always placed after the symbol of the wedding ring.
Speaker 1: The girls who come within the pale of this letter
Speaker 1: see Phyllis, Prudence, Pearl, Penelope, Pauline, Philippa, Phoebe or Priscilla
Speaker 1: will be petite and pretty and will have perfect poise,
Speaker 1: while the men will be polite and polished, great posers
Speaker 1: and poker players, but pliable in the hands of woman. Passion,
Speaker 1: the father of tenderness. Purity, the mother of tenderness. Unconscious
Speaker 1: modesty see modesty past, something to be forgotten, Patience the
Speaker 1: tip time gives to the waiter. Pity Love's half brother, pleasure,
Speaker 1: true love's shadow. Prudence said, Love, how strange we never
Speaker 1: met before, but now we've met. I hope we'll meet
Speaker 1: no more q Q. As shown by this ancient bit
Speaker 1: of sculptor, in its original hieroglyphic form, represented a lover's
Speaker 1: quarrel and from the cast of features, presumably an Amorite.
Speaker 1: This proves it of very ancient origin, as in the
Speaker 1: early times the Amorites were the dominant race of Syria
Speaker 1: and Canaan, which are named on the oldest Babylonian monuments
Speaker 1: the land of the Amorites see Map of Amuria. There
Speaker 1: are plenty of Amorites in the world today, but they
Speaker 1: show not the slightest desire to congregate, but quite to
Speaker 1: the contrary, can be found wandering off in pairs at
Speaker 1: the slightest pretext. Such words as quibble, quirk, quiz quip,
Speaker 1: and querulous seem to strengthen the unpleasant features of this letter.
Speaker 1: Fortunately there are no q girls. They would be very
Speaker 1: queer if there were question woman r This form we
Speaker 1: find first used as the symbol of the seal of
Speaker 1: rabsarias chief of the eunuchs in the reign of Senaka,
Speaker 1: the King of Assyria. The symbol evidently represents Rabsaris at
Speaker 1: his daily task of watching the ladies of the royal
Speaker 1: Harem to see that they did not indulge too freely
Speaker 1: in sweetmeats. Some wit of the day twisted Rabsaris into
Speaker 1: Rabari in Assyrian to stretch to rubber, and so a
Speaker 1: new symbol on the writing of the times was born,
Speaker 1: and we have the letter R, not the most cheerful
Speaker 1: letter in Cupid's alphabet, bringing with it as it does refusal, regret, remorse, revenge, please, remit,
Speaker 1: and that great hindrance to lovers. Reason. Girls under this
Speaker 1: sign combine the sweetness of the rose with the fire
Speaker 1: and depth of the ruby, and will be most attracted
Speaker 1: to those in the opposite sect of reckless and roving disposition.
Speaker 1: Religion in the religion of love. The Cortizan is a heretic,
Speaker 1: but the nun is an atheist. Richard Garnet ribbon, a
Speaker 1: rope in disguise, Rice, the confetti of matrimony, ring symbol
Speaker 1: of slavery, romance, Once upon a time, seldom twice Rose,
Speaker 1: the hardest working flower in Love's garden. Ruffle of frill
Speaker 1: on the outskirts of good form, rule, golden rule, do
Speaker 1: unto others, et cetera canonical extenuation of osculation s The
Speaker 1: story of s is sadness. Monday in the garden and
Speaker 1: a lovely day, just enough air stirring to rustle the
Speaker 1: leaves soothingly. Tuesday another such day, Wednesday, if anything better, Thursday,
Speaker 1: a wonderful day, langorous with the perfume of flowers. The
Speaker 1: birds never sang so sweetly, the butterflies never seemed so brilliant.
Speaker 1: The little silver brook fell into the lake with so
Speaker 1: soothing a sound, and the drowsy hum of the bee
Speaker 1: was like a lullaby. Such a dreamy contentment seemed to
Speaker 1: pervade the whole garden, like the breath of a rose,
Speaker 1: a caressing zephyr side overhead, and creaked ever so little.
Speaker 1: The old signboard nestled among the leaves, the old signboard
Speaker 1: with this inscription in quaint characters, corndou sebenet guessert. Adam
Speaker 1: looked up from where he lolled in the soft grass
Speaker 1: and smiled, as at an old friend. He stretched and
Speaker 1: drew a deep breath of content. The day seemed the
Speaker 1: most wonderful he had known. Friday, Black Friday, they called
Speaker 1: it afterward, broke clear and bright, but on the horizon
Speaker 1: gray piles of black cloud, and far off the ominous
Speaker 1: muttering of thunder all nature seemed nervous and a tremble.
Speaker 1: The breeze was fitiful and petulant, and the hush of
Speaker 1: some impending evil hung over the garden. The old signboard
Speaker 1: creaked sharply. Poor Adam, poor us. There confronting him was
Speaker 1: this word, in fresh bright paint, skiddo. See note that
Speaker 1: night it rained, Oh how it rained. Because this symbol
Speaker 1: sea cut, pronounced s like the hiss of a serpent,
Speaker 1: can be traced back to the day the Adams move
Speaker 1: and which stood for sin, scandal, shame, sorrow, scorn, satire, suspicion, scowl,
Speaker 1: and selfishness. People have been willing to accept Adam's story,
Speaker 1: and the poor old serpent has been made the scapegoat
Speaker 1: in the whole affair. We have gone very carefully into
Speaker 1: this matter, and we find that Adam was a lazy
Speaker 1: poet and dreamer, and was put out of Eden for
Speaker 1: not paying his rent. The girls under s will be stylish, sentimental, sincere,
Speaker 1: and simple in their tastes, while the men will be
Speaker 1: silver tongued and smooth. Note this quaint form of dispossessed.
Speaker 1: Notice we find use all through the stone and iron
Speaker 1: ages secret of feminine invention for the rapid dissemination of news.
Speaker 1: Since the safest fuel for the flame of love's altar
Speaker 1: sensitiveness as simptom sentiment. Betteker to the Land of Love
Speaker 1: tells you what to admire cy, the rustle of a
Speaker 1: caged cupid's wings, Silence, If silence gives consent? How is
Speaker 1: it women marry sin a matter of opinion what other
Speaker 1: people do? And we talk about sofa, a receptacle for spoons, spoon,
Speaker 1: an arrangement for supplying nourishment to the love, sick, suspicion,
Speaker 1: a hair of the wrong color, sympathy Love's sister t
Speaker 1: Tea in Adam's autobiography. We find, toward the end of
Speaker 1: the sojourn in the garden this symbol see cut on
Speaker 1: this page, often use and always in this sense, and
Speaker 1: being an hungered we went to the tea and ate.
Speaker 1: Poetic translators of these lines have been pleased to call
Speaker 1: this symbol the tree of life, and weave a pretty
Speaker 1: story around it, which fits in with Adam's folderol about
Speaker 1: the snake. We find, however, much used in the Phoenician hieroglyphs,
Speaker 1: the most ancient of all languages, this symbol the sign
Speaker 1: of the usurer or pawnshop. This unquestionably establishes our version
Speaker 1: of this garden story c s. The variation in Adam's
Speaker 1: way of writing the symbol is due either to that
Speaker 1: extreme sense of delicacy which would naturally make him wish
Speaker 1: to disguise the unpleasant, or to sheer laziness. He was
Speaker 1: such a poet. Girls fortunate enough to come under this
Speaker 1: letter will be tender and true, and will be most
Speaker 1: attracted to tall, talented, temperate men. Telephone Love's telephone number
Speaker 1: two one, Oh Heaven, temptation woman, anything forbidden, a challenge,
Speaker 1: an invitation to don't tenderness, moonlight three, a crowd, love's
Speaker 1: unlucky number, the time, woman's worst enemy, A cure all
Speaker 1: true love, an old fashioned sentiment, trust, a love preserver
Speaker 1: on the ship of joy, truth, a very painful irritant
Speaker 1: two company you. The old Assyrians, needing men for their
Speaker 1: many wars, did not believe in race suicide. The law
Speaker 1: therefore was that all men arriving at the age of
Speaker 1: twenty three and not married must wear a yoke of
Speaker 1: wood about the neck until such time as they should wed.
Speaker 1: Old bachelors were rare in Assyria. It is natural, then
Speaker 1: that the yoke should have become a symbol of bachelorhood.
Speaker 1: The cut herewith shows this symbol from a tablet from
Speaker 1: the epoch of a nimrod U takes its form from
Speaker 1: the yoke, and its sound from the Assyrian min implying negation,
Speaker 1: as shown in such words as unit until, unsafe, unacceptable, unamiable, unblemished, unbroken, uncalled, undutiful, unburied, unfashionable, unfeeling, unfruitful, unpoetic, unmarried,
Speaker 1: and unwise. You girls are usually unsophisticated and unaffected, and
Speaker 1: the men for them to marry should be useful, upright
Speaker 1: and urbane. Un a cantankerous prefix, which contradicts every adjective
Speaker 1: it meets. Union a combination of at least two unmarried
Speaker 1: states us, the plural of you v The originated from
Speaker 1: an early representation of Venus rising from the sea. This
Speaker 1: symbol was used upon the lady's entrance to all the
Speaker 1: public baths of the ancients in Cuba's alphabet in honor
Speaker 1: of his mind. This symbol was the last and stood
Speaker 1: for veneration and virtue, but as customs changed, it became
Speaker 1: necessary to add the wedding symbol. From the fact that
Speaker 1: Venus had five sweethearts, came the use of the symbol
Speaker 1: to denote five Valeria, Victoria, Virginia, Vivian, Vera, and Violet.
Speaker 1: The lucky girls under this sign will be as sweet
Speaker 1: as the verbena and versed in every art to make
Speaker 1: the male heart vibrate violently. The men will be vigorous,
Speaker 1: but visionary and inclined to be fond of the vine vanity.
Speaker 1: Everything variety is the spice of love. Victim bridegroom w
Speaker 1: W comes from the very sacred and beautiful symbol of wedlock.
Speaker 1: One cannot realize unless quite familiar with these ancient peoples.
Speaker 1: With what reverence they held this symbol. What poetry and
Speaker 1: romance surged through the mind of him who gazed upon it,
Speaker 1: What fluttering of heart, what dizziness. Yes, the ancious loved marriage.
Speaker 1: They adored it. Some of them were so devoted to
Speaker 1: it that they did it over and over again Solomon,
Speaker 1: for instance. At times the rush was so great that
Speaker 1: the clerks in the office of record would get behind
Speaker 1: in their work, and in their haste, would neglect to
Speaker 1: make the whole in the wedding ring, showing the bridegroom's
Speaker 1: hand so in the symbol, and giving the opportunity for
Speaker 1: someone to advance the theory that this symbol did not
Speaker 1: mean marriage, but represented the doctor offering a pial to
Speaker 1: his patient, meaning sickness. This is absurd. W Girls will
Speaker 1: be wholesome, winning and wise, and will be most happy
Speaker 1: when wedded to men of wealth waste, the equator of
Speaker 1: heaven webb Annette an entanglement doubtless from the German vibe woman,
Speaker 1: wedding a necessary formality before securing a divorce. Widow the
Speaker 1: most dangerous variety of unmarried female wife, a darning attachment
Speaker 1: for the domestic machine. Woman. The last, but not the
Speaker 1: least of all created things. An afterthought x X comes
Speaker 1: from Cupid's own mark used by him in the day
Speaker 1: before writing was invented, and everybody had his own or
Speaker 1: her own peculiar mark to sign checks I owe us
Speaker 1: and love letters. We are indebted to the British Museum
Speaker 1: for allowing us access to their treasure chambers. There we
Speaker 1: find this mark on many dainty bill adieux left upon
Speaker 1: Psyche's dressing table by Cupid. The symbol for many centuries
Speaker 1: of true love, and many variations of it were used,
Speaker 1: such as I am overjoyed, I have the bl lose
Speaker 1: fly with me, meet me, meet me by moonlight, Let
Speaker 1: us be married. I love you not. Do you think
Speaker 1: you can support a wife? I will come tonight, I
Speaker 1: leave town tomorrow, come back. I love you. Ex Girls
Speaker 1: are usually thought of with great tenderness by a man,
Speaker 1: but they are sometimes a considerable annoyance, as for example,
Speaker 1: xanthropy why a derivative of wise. We show here the
Speaker 1: central figure from a decoration over the entrance to the
Speaker 1: temple of Cupid, and naturally supposed to represent the high
Speaker 1: priest pronouncing the wedding blessing with this before us, it
Speaker 1: is easy to understand. Why why is the parent of
Speaker 1: such words as yearn yea, yielding, yes, and yoking. Another
Speaker 1: poetic minded archaeologist has tried to persuade Us to his
Speaker 1: theory that the Romantic ancients who were forever giving human
Speaker 1: form to things symbolized in this figure the waterfall. His
Speaker 1: theory is without foundation. Why girls will be ever youthful
Speaker 1: and are rare as yttrium? They should be much thought
Speaker 1: after by you men. Yes Cupid's password yesterday. Regret you
Speaker 1: whoever you are youth the time we wasted Cupid's holiday season.
Speaker 1: Z The symbol shown here from an ancient roller seal
Speaker 1: dating back to the earliest days of the Turkish race,
Speaker 1: shows its owner worshiping at the shrine of Cupid, hence
Speaker 1: the word a zealot. The arrangement of his hair shows
Speaker 1: him to be a bachelor, so presumably he is beseeching
Speaker 1: Cupid's aid in some amour. A very similar figure is
Speaker 1: used in later symbolic writings, supposed to represent Zeus's kneeling
Speaker 1: before one of his own paintings, and stood for egotism
Speaker 1: and can see we also have the same form use
Speaker 1: so symbolizing the path of True Love. Originally written end
Speaker 1: of part one Part two of Cupid Cyclopedia by Oliver
Speaker 1: Herford and John Cecil Clay. This LibriVox recording is in
Speaker 1: the public domain. Part two Amoria. Amoria is the most
Speaker 1: ancient and honorable country upon the Earth's surface, and is
Speaker 1: without question the most intensely populated. It is a green
Speaker 1: and fertile country, and the principal occupation of its people
Speaker 1: is horticultural husbandry. The form of government is home rule,
Speaker 1: and to become a citizen, although born in the country,
Speaker 1: it is required that at least one complete journey be
Speaker 1: made from end to end of the country's principal highway.
Speaker 1: This at first seems an odd requirement, but there is
Speaker 1: good reasoning behind it. First, as this great highway, known
Speaker 1: as the Path of True Love, in its devious windings,
Speaker 1: touches practically every portion of the Kingdom, the trip is
Speaker 1: likely to open the traveler's eyes and teach him much
Speaker 1: of the resources and conditions of the country he wishes
Speaker 1: to call his own. Second, as the road is rough
Speaker 1: and in places sometimes seemingly impassable, the trip will test
Speaker 1: the determination and stability of the most hearty. Turn to
Speaker 1: the map, and we find Amoria, bounded on three sides
Speaker 1: by misanthropia, the state of indifference, and the sea of
Speaker 1: oblivion emptying into which the Quarrel River forever pours its
Speaker 1: flotsam and jetsam. On the upper side, you will see
Speaker 1: it is bounded by the edge of the map. This
Speaker 1: is because it is too cold in that direction to
Speaker 1: sustain human life. Reader's note. Here in the text occurs
Speaker 1: a map which is amply described in the text that
Speaker 1: follows end note. Let us now follow upon the map
Speaker 1: the course of this historic road. Far up in the
Speaker 1: corner of the map we find Mount Curiosity, its snow
Speaker 1: capped peaks, lost in the soft gray veil of mist
Speaker 1: that has prevented the scientist from determining its greatest heights.
Speaker 1: The ascent of the mountain is usually made on the
Speaker 1: side where it comes nearest to the state of indifference.
Speaker 1: See note why here. A well known path known as
Speaker 1: the path of least resistance takes one by such a
Speaker 1: gradual and agreeable route that little or no effort is
Speaker 1: realized in the climb, and it is usually as surprise
Speaker 1: when just a little below the frost line, one comes
Speaker 1: suddenly upon a little plateau high high in the heavens.
Speaker 1: Here the air is salubrious, and the temperature, even the
Speaker 1: view is so wonderful in the early dawn that the
Speaker 1: most phlegmatic will become enthusiastic. This little plateau is known
Speaker 1: as the Plateau Platonic, and is quite flat. In spite
Speaker 1: of its beauty and charm. Few travelers are satisfied to
Speaker 1: rest here long. In leaving the plateau, one must have
Speaker 1: a care for there are two paths quite similar in appearance,
Speaker 1: one leading up the mountain to nowhere and loneliness, and
Speaker 1: the other the commencement of the path of true love.
Speaker 1: The careful traveler need not mistake the path, for beside
Speaker 1: the entrance, at about the height of a man's heart,
Speaker 1: and nailed to a great oak, is a crudely fashioned
Speaker 1: hand with finger pointing the way. This is called the
Speaker 1: hand of fate. Alas, too few take the trouble to
Speaker 1: look for this guide, and many take the wrong path,
Speaker 1: while those who, by sheer luck take the right one
Speaker 1: are easily discouraged because of the very uncertain condition of mind.
Speaker 1: They soon find themselves in these usually lose heart before
Speaker 1: going a long way, or in their careless method of progress,
Speaker 1: take some wrong turning and come to a swift and
Speaker 1: bad end. But we will follow the progress of the
Speaker 1: traveler who believes and signs. It is hard to describe
Speaker 1: those first impressions, as one comes swinging down the mountain
Speaker 1: side and sees winding far out and across the verdant
Speaker 1: Valley of Dreams, dotted here and there with its picturesque castles,
Speaker 1: the path of true love like a silver thread. It
Speaker 1: seems so bright and pure, and off to the right
Speaker 1: there is such a happy pink glow in the sky
Speaker 1: that one usually finds himself humming some old love song.
Speaker 1: Luckily the traveler who puts a clover in his buttonhole
Speaker 1: while crossing the Valley of dreams, for all too soon
Speaker 1: the cold winds that sweep across the Lake Indifference and
Speaker 1: make the trip around it a perilous and discouraging one
Speaker 1: will be chilling his marrow. He will need both courage
Speaker 1: and luck. When rounding the upper end of the lake,
Speaker 1: he comes upon the rough and rocky stretch of road
Speaker 1: running along the edge of a fearful precipice, which overhangs
Speaker 1: the lake and is known as the Height of Indifference. Here,
Speaker 1: one false step and all is lost. Past this danger,
Speaker 1: the road turns from the lake, but the traveler has
Speaker 1: hardly time to congratulate himself upon the warmer conditions when
Speaker 1: he is confronted by a most disconcerting range of mountains
Speaker 1: known as the Mountains of Opposition. If you do not
Speaker 1: cross the mountains, the mountains will double cross you. So
Speaker 1: push on and with tact and determination they will be overcome.
Speaker 1: The mountains passed, a smooth bit of road is reached,
Speaker 1: and brighter weather that after the lowering clouds. The storms
Speaker 1: and many obstacles met with in the mountains will likely
Speaker 1: mislead the traveler into thinking his troubles over lighthearted, he
Speaker 1: will push forward hurriedly, taking little heed of the fast
Speaker 1: increasing cold. Fortunately, adjust at the edge of the map,
Speaker 1: and just upon the longitude of respect, the road takes
Speaker 1: a sudden, sharp turn, but it is almost from bad
Speaker 1: to worse, for it plunges the traveler into the forest
Speaker 1: of misunderson, standing, a dark and dismal place that will
Speaker 1: fill the strongest with misgivings. The only way is to
Speaker 1: stick close to the road. This is sometimes hard in
Speaker 1: the darkness, as there are many by paths. Travelers, once
Speaker 1: off the correct road, have been known to wander for
Speaker 1: years without once seeing the sunlight. About half way through
Speaker 1: the forest, there is a road turning to the right,
Speaker 1: it seems the easier way, dipping down as it does,
Speaker 1: into a little valley and across a turbulent little stream,
Speaker 1: beyond which it disappears from sight in the tangle of
Speaker 1: brilliant foliage covering Mount Folly. Unhappy he who takes this turn,
Speaker 1: for there is many a slippery stone in the bed
Speaker 1: of this stream, and the crossing is not a happy
Speaker 1: one if one would turn back at the first slip,
Speaker 1: But human nature is stubborn, and few do. Besides, there
Speaker 1: seems little choice between them, a dismal forest behind and
Speaker 1: the lure of Mount Folly ahead. Folly lasts but a day, however,
Speaker 1: and the foliage soon loses its attractive coloring. The foolish wayfarer, then,
Speaker 1: pushing on, finds himself again confronted by the turbulent stream,
Speaker 1: but easier to cross, this time a little way further.
Speaker 1: The path ends at what appears to be a refreshing spring.
Speaker 1: It is the spring of untruth, and he who lies
Speaker 1: to drink of its waters will ever be a slave
Speaker 1: of the drug. Again, as one is nearing the edges
Speaker 1: of the black forest. Is another road leading off to
Speaker 1: the left and to the Spring of Mistrust. Turn not
Speaker 1: aside nor drink of this spring. Its waters are bitter,
Speaker 1: and this turning but takes one back into the depths
Speaker 1: of the dismal forest. Emerging from the black Forests of Misunderstanding,
Speaker 1: the road winds across a fertile and easy going prairie
Speaker 1: land twice, crossing the acid waters of bicker Brook see
Speaker 1: Note twenty three, and crossing the Quarrel River, takes its
Speaker 1: course along the foot of what by many is considered
Speaker 1: the most beautiful mountain in Amoria mount Unselfishness. The going
Speaker 1: is easy here, and when one comes to a little
Speaker 1: road branching off and running right up the mountain side,
Speaker 1: he is apt to feel very little inclination to take it.
Speaker 1: Nearly every traveler knows by hearsay that this is a
Speaker 1: short cut one should take. But standing at the foot
Speaker 1: of the mountain, with a broad, smooth road on one hand,
Speaker 1: and this little used, difficult mountain path, it is hardly
Speaker 1: more than a blazed trail on the other. It is
Speaker 1: much to the traveler's credit who attempts it at all
Speaker 1: Quite a few do, however, begin the ascent, but almost
Speaker 1: without exception, have not the strength to continue and turn
Speaker 1: back to the main highway, only to be shortly plunged
Speaker 1: again and again in the cold and caustic waters of
Speaker 1: the Quarrel River. As the road crosses and recrosses it.
Speaker 1: There are no bridges here, and many a poor traveler
Speaker 1: becomes exhausted in the mad battle with the current, hopelessly
Speaker 1: loses all self control and is carried away to be
Speaker 1: lost in the sea of oblivion. At the river's mouth
Speaker 1: is lost Hope Island. This is really nothing more than
Speaker 1: a bar, and superstition has it that there, on stormy nights,
Speaker 1: when the tide is coming in congregate those poor lost souls,
Speaker 1: and it is claimed on good authority that the discords
Speaker 1: of their mournful songs can be heard even as far
Speaker 1: as the edges of the desert of Absence. After these
Speaker 1: several crossings of the Quarrel River, the road again becomes easy,
Speaker 1: and travel should be a pleasure. But the traveler is
Speaker 1: weary from the recent struggle with the river, and is
Speaker 1: almost thankful for the flat stretch of road where it
Speaker 1: first crosses the desert of absence. It were often better
Speaker 1: if this bit of road were longer, for before the
Speaker 1: traveler entirely regains his former vim, he is deep in
Speaker 1: the unhealthy mists and quicksands of the slew of despond,
Speaker 1: and it is in a very weakened condition that he
Speaker 1: commences the second crossing of the Desert of Absence. In
Speaker 1: this condition is it strange that one loiter in the
Speaker 1: oasis of flirtation, the one bright spot in an otherwise
Speaker 1: dull desert. But an oasis and a flirtation have their limits,
Speaker 1: and when one's thirst is satisfied, one wants to move on.
Speaker 1: And well, this is for the traveler on the path
Speaker 1: of true love for only a little and the desert
Speaker 1: is past, and the road leads for many happy miles
Speaker 1: through the sweetest and most beautiful meadow land, where the
Speaker 1: warm sunlight, the songs of the birds, and the sweet
Speaker 1: odor of new mown hay repay one for all the
Speaker 1: hardships of the past, and so stimulate the traveler that
Speaker 1: he strikes out upon the third crossing of the desert
Speaker 1: of absence with a light step and a song in
Speaker 1: his heart. And though the trip is longer, it seems
Speaker 1: far shorter than either of the previous crossings. So happy
Speaker 1: indeed has he been, and with the soft airs of
Speaker 1: the desert making his heart grow fonder, the way seems
Speaker 1: so easy that the sudden obstruction of two of the
Speaker 1: lesser spurs of the mountains of opposition fill him with misgiving,
Speaker 1: And the valley between them is well named Blue Valley
Speaker 1: see Note thirteen. In such a condition of mind, the
Speaker 1: traveler plunges down the mountain side and is soon deep
Speaker 1: in a great gloomy forest, not likely to raise his spirits,
Speaker 1: but rather calculated to depress them. Still more. Imagine then
Speaker 1: the elation, when bursting at length from the depression of
Speaker 1: the forest of gloom, the traveler sees before him that
Speaker 1: transcendently beautiful mountain, Mount Hope. Well, may he hold his
Speaker 1: breath and gaze in rapture, for before him rises the
Speaker 1: most beautiful mountain in all the world, and will ever
Speaker 1: be as long as life lasts, with its velvety slopes
Speaker 1: and shaded dells, its little silver rills tinkling down the
Speaker 1: mountain side, sounding like fairy laughter through the trees, the
Speaker 1: gently stirring air, freighted with the perfume of myriads of
Speaker 1: fragrant blossoms, and overall a tender rose colored glow reflected
Speaker 1: from the soft, pinky clouds that forever tenderly rests upon
Speaker 1: the mountain stop. It is indeed the most beautiful of
Speaker 1: nature's jewels, so it seems, with hope so long deferred
Speaker 1: to that tired eyed struggler upon Love's highway, often heartsick
Speaker 1: and oppressed by the vicissitudes of the way. For here
Speaker 1: he may rest, and, gazing again out over the deer
Speaker 1: valley of dreams, rejuvenate the yearning, the ambition, and the
Speaker 1: determination that have brought him through so much. To these
Speaker 1: he must now add hope, And so equipped and refreshed,
Speaker 1: he dashes a second time through the forest of gloom, and,
Speaker 1: though confronted by the most stubborn and rocky section known
Speaker 1: as the parent peak in the entire range of the
Speaker 1: mountains of Opposition, his past experience and his added strength
Speaker 1: carry him over with little effort, and coming down the
Speaker 1: last steep slope, his heart gives abound as his eye
Speaker 1: follows the smooth roadway stretching invitingly across a nearly level
Speaker 1: expanse of well cultivated country, thickly dotted with the happy
Speaker 1: homes of those who had once been travelers like himself.
Speaker 1: If he be not short sighted, he is able to
Speaker 1: see even as far ahead as to where the road
Speaker 1: and his lonely journey end in heavenly Mount Heart's Desire.
Speaker 1: As he passes along, many a cheerful face smiles out
Speaker 1: at him from the doorways, and many a cheerful word
Speaker 1: of welcome and greeting encourage him to hasten. The smiles
Speaker 1: of the rosy cheeked children seem especially sweet to him.
Speaker 1: The journey's end, the goal is reached. Naught remains further
Speaker 1: for the traveler now except the oath of allegiance, which
Speaker 1: is performed with considerable ceremony in the little church just
Speaker 1: around the corner to the left. Note. Mount Heart's Desire
Speaker 1: is of an attractive shape and thickly surrounded by orange blossoms.
Speaker 1: No two travelers agree as to its height, but we
Speaker 1: are of the opinion that it must be about five
Speaker 1: feet three or four inches. Within it is a little
Speaker 1: shrine called trust, which is the duty of every worshiper
Speaker 1: to protect. Note why it seems more than a mere
Speaker 1: coincidence that the path of least resistance should run up
Speaker 1: Mount Curiosity on the side nearest to the borders of
Speaker 1: the State of Indifference, and there is a very ancient
Speaker 1: tradition that the first person to make the ascent came
Speaker 1: from that easy going country. We believe this tradition to
Speaker 1: be another version of the Adam and Eve's story, and
Speaker 1: feel that it conclusively proves us right in our calculations
Speaker 1: as to the exact location of the Garden of Eden.
Speaker 1: We claim it was situated in that part of the
Speaker 1: State of Indifference, near to and in full view of
Speaker 1: Mount Curiosity, and that Adam was the first man to
Speaker 1: make the climb. We also believe that Adam became lost
Speaker 1: on the mountain side and never returned to Eden, and
Speaker 1: that the Path of True Love gives a pretty good
Speaker 1: idea of his subsequent wanderings, of which so little heretofore
Speaker 1: has been known. At any rate, vast numbers from the
Speaker 1: State of Indifference make the ascent of Mount Curiosity every year,
Speaker 1: and many of our best citizens have come from that
Speaker 1: state Note twenty three. At this point, after the more
Speaker 1: or less extended journey through the unhealthy fes forest of misunderstanding,
Speaker 1: the traveler must have a care, especially if he be
Speaker 1: of a sensitive nature, for the shock of the first
Speaker 1: plunge through bicker Brook will often throw one into a
Speaker 1: distemper or fever. Some going absolutely out of their heads,
Speaker 1: wander far afield. Herein lies a grave danger because of
Speaker 1: the nearness of the road at this point to the
Speaker 1: boundaries of Misanthropia, which state is little more than a
Speaker 1: barren waste. The peculiar mental attitude of its inhabitants gives
Speaker 1: strength to the theory advanced in Amoria that its population
Speaker 1: is made up of those poor, fever ridden souls who
Speaker 1: have wandered from the path of true love and gone
Speaker 1: quite mad Note thirteen. The higher one climbs, the duller
Speaker 1: the thud. So with the traveler who has been dreaming
Speaker 1: across sweet meadowland and balm SEMy Wastes, when suddenly confronted
Speaker 1: by a renewal of obstacles which his optimism had made
Speaker 1: him believe past forever. And it is in a nervous
Speaker 1: and uncertain state of mind we find him groping his
Speaker 1: way through the mists that always fill Blue Valley. Here
Speaker 1: is a great danger, for with the steep mountains on
Speaker 1: three sides, the traveler, if he once stumble from the road,
Speaker 1: is apt to follow the depression of the valley, until
Speaker 1: morbid and benumbed he wander into the state of indifference.
Speaker 1: The same danger, in a lesser degree, is lurking in
Speaker 1: the Forest of Gloom. Appendix. The appendix has been removed
Speaker 1: end of Part two.