WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:05.400 Author's note of Cupid's Cyclopedia. This is a LibriVox recording. 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.759 All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:13.160 information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording 4 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:18.399 by David Wales. Cupid's Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford and John 5 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:23.960 cecil Clay. Author's note. It has long been the belief 6 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.760 of the authors that love making should be included in 7 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.359 the regular curriculum of our schools. It seems to us 8 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:35.240 the most important branch of co education. How few of 9 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:38.960 us know how to make love properly, and how very few, 10 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:42.640 after making it, know how to keep it. So much 11 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.759 depends upon the kind of love which is made. There 12 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:49.520 are no artificial methods of preserving love, but the best 13 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:53.679 kind will keep forever. Few beginners know how to make 14 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:58.600 the lasting kind, and many, even of those with vast experience, 15 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.560 are still quite clumsy. The only way is to keep 16 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:05.599 at it. We hope that this book will fill a 17 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:10.200 long felt want. Surely, of all longfelt wants, the want 18 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:14.599 of love seems longest. It is for the earnest student 19 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:20.079 of true love that we have compiled this cyclopedia. Oh Hereford, 20 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:32.159 John cecil Clay, and of author's note Part one of 21 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:37.280 cupid Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford and John cecil Clay. This 22 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:42.000 LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Part one letters 23 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:48.000 A through Z A the first letter placed by Cupid 24 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.400 at the head of his alphabet because it stands for amoor, 25 00:01:51.920 --> 00:02:00.200 ardor art, affinity, affection, adoration, affability, angel, et cetera. Also 26 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:04.159 is the easiest word to spell, with the exception of I. 27 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:07.840 The origin of the form of our capital letter A 28 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:11.520 is supposed to have been an Egyptian symbol c illustration 29 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:16.560 representing two people engaged in the ancient pastime called kissin 30 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:20.960 which survives even at the present day. A by many, 31 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:24.280 supposed to be the oldest of the alphabet, and constituting 32 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:28.360 as it does the initial of Adam's name, was doubtless 33 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.719 the only letter in existence at the time Adam learned 34 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:38.719 to write. The words arc Antediluvian, ancestry, archaeology, and antiquity 35 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:48.240 all support the above theory. Girls like Adelaide, Agatha, Agnes, Alice, Althea, Amanda, Amy, Angelina, 36 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:54.439 and Arabella, whose initials fall in this letter will be attractive, amiable, artless, 37 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:58.159 and in the opposite sex most attracted by those of 38 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:04.719 ardent ambitious and nas and affable disposition. Absence, the sixth 39 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:08.639 sense arrived at by the exclusion of the other five. 40 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:14.520 A powerful stimulant to love see longing when combined with distance, 41 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:20.120 lends enchantment to the other five senses. Adamant masculine a 42 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:25.639 very hard word see father. Admiration from admi, the Persian 43 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:31.039 word meaning love and ration, food, love food or food 44 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:38.439 of love, affinity, feminine, ad at fenes boundary, at the 45 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:44.000 boundary the one one meets around the corner. Alimony the 46 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:47.960 fine for speeding in the joy ride of matrimony. Alter 47 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:52.039 the forge where hearts are fused from the word halter 48 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:58.439 to hitch, amount a foreign measure of love. Anchor the 49 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:02.479 symbol of hope see English word hanker to long for 50 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:11.080 angel see her appendix see last page. Arm. The arm 51 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.759 is a muscular string connecting the hand with the shoulder. 52 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:18.240 A man can give his arm without giving his hand. 53 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:23.759 Coat of arms, Cupid's heart shaped shield, gulls pierced by 54 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.879 an arrow, argent crest on, an olive branch, a dove, 55 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:34.560 a proper ringed door. Flat pant Ash's fashionable lenten head dress, 56 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:40.079 especially effective when combined with sackcloth, a vowel, a showdown 57 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:45.399 in the game of love. B B is supposed to 58 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:49.360 take its shape from the popular and industrious insect known 59 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:53.839 as the bee sea illustration. Others claim that its form 60 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.000 is copied from the curves of Cupid's bow. In either case, 61 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:03.199 its chief characteristic is busyness. B is a letter beloved 62 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:08.040 of all, bashful, bouncing, beautiful, and bonnie, all of which 63 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:12.000 pleasing attributes are the natural inheritance of the girls to 64 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:17.360 whose lot the initial bee shall fall. See Betty, Bella, Bertha, Bridget, 65 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.879 and Belinda. The most congenial qualities of the opposite sex 66 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:27.439 will be bravery, brawn, briskness, and brains. Baby a small 67 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:33.920 thing somewhat resembling a Cupid without wings. Bachelor neuter, an 68 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:42.040 immune balcony Cupid's fire escape beauty neuter an affection of 69 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:47.560 the skin taking, but not contagious. Most popular American export, 70 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:55.439 best best girl see her Bill, Si coup bird see 71 00:05:55.480 --> 00:06:00.279 hat blush, a weakness of youth and an accomplished men 72 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:06.680 of experience the pink of impropriety. Bond. There are two kinds, 73 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:11.079 the United States bonds and Cupid's bonds of the United 74 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:16.720 State bravery, a quality looked for in man found in woman, 75 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:20.480 the personal adornment of a woman and the mental adornment 76 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:25.160 of a man. Breach breach of promised suit a suit 77 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:28.600 made to fit the devil, but sometimes worn by Cupid. 78 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:33.959 Break to break hearts, popular pastime of the American girl. 79 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:42.279 Brute neuter a husband se c is the curliest of 80 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:45.279 all the letters. It takes its shape from the first 81 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.959 golden curl given as a love token by Cupid to 82 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:52.959 Psyche when he found her again after their first quarrel, 83 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:57.959 thus originating the Society of Psychical Research and the engagement 84 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:02.680 ring see. Being the initial of Cupid has many of 85 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:11.199 his charming graces, being careless, coquettish, capricious, clandestine, clinging, and curious. 86 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.160 These charms will also be found in the maids who 87 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:18.639 follow the curly initial Sea. Among the Sea girls are 88 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:26.519 the following Chloe, Clarinda, Clarice, Clara, Clementine, Catherine, Constance, Cynthia, 89 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:34.319 and Carol. The attractive qualities of their affinities are candor, coolness, cynicism, cleverness, 90 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:39.680 and cash. Cake. Wedding cake a sacharine monument to the 91 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:44.040 memory of love. Care the mother of thrift and the 92 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:47.759 child of extravagance. If you do not take it before marriage, 93 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:52.360 it will overtake you. After caress a sort of dope, 94 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:57.240 very enjoyable cash, a sort of window fastener to keep 95 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:05.920 love from flying out. Cad masculine, the other man, cat feminine, 96 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:11.240 the other woman. Chair a small, ingeniously constructed seat for 97 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:16.000 two people, called after Jeops, the inventor. The first chair 98 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:19.920 was presented to Cassiopeia and now appears in the constellation 99 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:24.439 of that name. Cheese part of Cupid's menu, bread and 100 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:29.920 cheese and kisses. Clock. A paradoxical chaperone who is least 101 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:34.840 in the way when it doesn't go company two consent 102 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:41.519 see papa coup see bill courtship a picturesque gateway to 103 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:49.399 a commonplace estate crowd three cure of love, marriage curiosity, 104 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:53.919 the taper which lights the flame of love. Curl feminine 105 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:58.399 a man trap verb two curl. The dog curls up 106 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.679 to sleep, the cat curl up to sleep. Even my 107 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:06.200 lady curls up to sleep cinec One who has been 108 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:11.480 stung d. The letter D dates from about nine sixty 109 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:16.559 seven b c. Hippopotamia, one of Solomon's many wives, having 110 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:19.919 been blessed with no children, had a little pet animal, 111 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:23.840 presumably much like the modern lapdog, of which she was 112 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:28.320 very fond and was forever exclaiming of it, isn't it dear, 113 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:34.399 or isn't it darling? Solomon would invariably reply, no dog 114 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:39.960 on it, and sometimes even no damn it. Then Hippopotamia 115 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:46.480 would smile, disclosing two very lovely dimples. Realizing the usefulness 116 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.200 of such words, Solomon created the letter D in order 117 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.480 to be able to spell them in the hieroglyphics of 118 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:56.679 the times. It was written as this fragment will show 119 00:09:57.159 --> 00:10:02.679 the form being taken from Hippopotamia's little pet dog. Hydrophobia. 120 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:04.720 D has turned out to be one of the most 121 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:12.600 useful letters in Cupid's alphabet, beginning as it does dearie ducky, dreams, delight, determination, 122 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:17.200 and desire, but it has an unhappy side in don't 123 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:23.600 disappointment and despair. The girls under these letters are all darlings, 124 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:29.679 see any one of them darling from dearling a little deer, 125 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:37.639 sometimes excessively dear, dear, beloved. Also expensive dawn a term 126 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:40.480 for early morning used by people who don't have to 127 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:49.000 get up defects what a woman loves, a man for delusion, hopes, dressmaker, desire, 128 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:54.279 love's partner, dimple feminine, a pitfall in a garden of 129 00:10:54.399 --> 00:11:00.360 blush roses, doggerel rhyme without reason, generally written by puppies. 130 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:04.919 Doe that which is needed, a slang word for money. 131 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:10.200 Dove a tender foul popular both in poetry and cookery 132 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.679 books when too old to rose or broil. May be 133 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.360 served up in verse as the emblem of conjugal love. 134 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.240 Dream feminine term used by a woman describing a hat, 135 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:27.039 mass term describing the woman, used by the man who 136 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:32.039 is destined to buy the hat. Duel the highest compliment 137 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:37.039 two men can pay one woman duty. A millstone, sometimes 138 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:40.720 mistaken by Cupid for a heart, what we expect in 139 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:46.240 others E. The letter E takes its shape from the elephant, 140 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:49.879 in whose symbolical anatomy it plays the most important part. 141 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:53.600 It is the belief of scientist that no animal has 142 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:59.159 been responsible for more exclamations expressive of amazement than the elephant. 143 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:05.360 The presence of E in ejaculation extraordinary, e gad enormous 144 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.840 is directly traceable to the close relation of the letter 145 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:14.519 to that popular pachyderm. The girls under e, for instance Edith, 146 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:21.159 eleanor Elizabeth, Els, Emily, Emma, Esther, Eunice, Evangeline, and Evelina 147 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:26.600 are distinguished for EA's elegance, excitability, and economy, and will 148 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:31.120 be most attracted to the opposite sex by extravagance, eccentricity 149 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:37.639 and early rising escape, divorce, eternity. Oh, I'll be down 150 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:42.159 in a minute, evil a while of the devil, ever 151 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:48.080 and forever, the devil of a while, excuse self accusation, 152 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:54.960 experience and expensive tutor eyebrow, a mustache worn over the eye, 153 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:59.679 an incentive to sonnets. F The form of the letter 154 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:03.080 f I was first discovered on an ancient fragment of 155 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:06.159 pottery by a German archaeologist, in the shape of a 156 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:09.120 sandal on what is supposed to be the foot of Achilles. 157 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.799 As will be seen in the accompanying cut, the heel 158 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:15.600 of the sandal and the part covering what is known 159 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:19.879 as the tendon of Achilles is peculiarly designed for the 160 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:22.559 protection of that part of the foot, which was the 161 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.879 only vulnerable spot in achilles foot. This can at best 162 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:31.759 be accepted only as an ingenious conjecture. F girls will 163 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:39.919 be frank, fragile, and fastidious, and those named Fanny, Felicia, Flora, Fidelia, Florence, Francis, 164 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:43.200 or flow will find their affinities in those of the 165 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:49.679 opposite sex, who are fearless, thickle, and fantastic. Fainting obsolete 166 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:54.440 a feminine maneuver. Fashion feminine the sum of all the 167 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:59.600 virtues fig fig leaf a fall fashion of a false 168 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:05.600 motif fast see figure one. First first love, an appetizer, 169 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.559 first kiss. Much has been written about the exquisite joy 170 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:14.600 of this, Still it is unsatisfying, Hence the second, the third, 171 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:19.360 et cetera. Ad lib Flirtation a way for two people 172 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:22.440 who are not married to each other to pass the time. 173 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:27.159 As a matter of fact, a flirtation isn't anything. It's 174 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:30.039 a thing to do, and is really easier to do 175 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:34.559 than to describe. There are many sorts of flirtation. The 176 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:39.840 every day or sidewalk flirtation is the commonest kind. Other 177 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:44.159 very popular forms are the eye, the eyebrow, the fan, 178 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:49.720 the glove, the handkerchief, and the foot. Flirtation a natural 179 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:54.279 attribute to woman, but an easily acquired accomplishment in man. 180 00:14:54.840 --> 00:15:01.399 Forever Love's promissory note subject to discount G. The present 181 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:04.080 form of the letter G is derived from the ancient 182 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:09.000 Babylonian symbol for G. The letter in its present shape 183 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:12.559 is composed of only half of the Babylonian symbol, which 184 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:17.720 is properly written GG or gg C cut. When we 185 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.919 consider that without this letter there could be no girls 186 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.639 in the world, we should be thankful for G. In fact, 187 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:27.480 we are in favor of its being made the national 188 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:33.279 thanksgiving letter. Gertrude, Georgiana, Grace, and all the girls of 189 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.639 this letter will be glorious with their generosity, gentleness, grace, 190 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.440 and gaiety, and cannot be won by gold or gems. 191 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:45.120 He who would win one of these must be guileless 192 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:51.120 and go ahead. Garter c N a species of serpent 193 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:56.080 gas gaslight a light often too weak for one, and 194 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:00.440 generally too strong for two. The fainter the gas, the braver, 195 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:05.679 the beau. Shakespeare girl, the beginning of trouble, and apple 196 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:11.960 blossom in the garden of love, gooseberry an unbidden fruit, gossip, 197 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:16.720 nothing to speak of. Grass widow. A grass widow is 198 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:21.519 a widow which makes hey h. The eighth letter of 199 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:25.559 Cupid's alphabet takes its form from the Hittite symbol meaning 200 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:29.399 an heir has been born to his house. The symbol, 201 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.840 as shown in the cut represents two Hittite gentlemen shaking hands. 202 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.279 The gladder looking one is the proud father and is 203 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.480 being congratulated upon the birth of his first son. Girls 204 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:44.840 did not count for so much then as now. In 205 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:49.080 later symbolic writing, this symbol came to stand for a 206 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.039 pleasant or good natured greeting, as shown in such words 207 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:59.960 as Howdy Hittite, how North American Indian, Howdi dew, New England, 208 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:06.079 and Hello telephonic and hail. It would be hard to 209 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:09.400 reckon the immense amount of good this letter has done. 210 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:12.799 For without hell and headache, how many of us would 211 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:17.960 be good? And oh the joys of life? For without age, 212 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:24.079 where would happiness and the honeymoon be? And where heart, hope, 213 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:29.440 health and harmony. Girls under this sign will be handsome, honest, 214 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.880 and home loving. But those named Helen, Harriet, Henrietta, and 215 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:39.559 Hannah seem to be easily hypnotized by hollow, hypocritical humbugs 216 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:45.240 of the opposite sex. Hooray, happiness, the mainspring of the 217 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:50.480 good time piece heaven all in her eye heart the 218 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:55.480 ticker in the burst of love, horticulture see Cupid's almanac. 219 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:02.960 Hell an expression of petulance, hesitation, the thief of good times, honesty, 220 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.200 a bunker in the game of love, honeymoon, the sugar 221 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:11.039 on the bread of matrimony, hope, the child of care 222 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:16.839 and pretty sister of despair. I, the letter I spells 223 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:20.440 by itself the most popular word in our language, though 224 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:23.640 under cupid spell the word you is more thought of, 225 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:28.000 you and I being often the most happy of Cupid's combination, 226 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:32.480 I is the most attenuated letter of the alphabet by some. 227 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:37.319 The letter I is supposed to have possessed originally a 228 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:41.119 well rounded and ornate figure, having been worn to its 229 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:45.720 present threadlike shape by constant use in speech and writing. 230 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:50.720 When not acting in its popular capacity a first person pronoun, 231 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:54.920 I is anything but popular as a letter, standing as 232 00:18:54.960 --> 00:19:02.920 it does for indifference, irksomeness, insignificance, industry, and other uncongenial things. 233 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:06.720 I has a leaning to the cold and classic in 234 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:12.160 its choice of females, some of its favorites being ethigenia, irene, 235 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:17.359 imogen idias, and iolante. To these ladies, the most appealing 236 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:24.799 masculine qualities will be irony, idleness, independence, and impecuniosity. I 237 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:29.400 the most popular letter in the alphabet. If the drawbridge 238 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:34.079 to the Castle of Hope, Illusion, loves Taylor and arts 239 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:38.799 servant ink, the stuff that bills, books and billy doo 240 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:45.559 are made of innocence, a moral vacuum. J. Jay, we 241 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.079 are confident, takes the shape from one of Venus's doves. 242 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:51.759 We don't know which one, but we think it is 243 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:55.240 the dove of peace, or possibly the turtle dove. We 244 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:57.799 are quite sure it is not from the ring dove. 245 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:01.799 To strengthen our theory, we present herewith a cut of 246 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:05.079 a fragment of a loving cup presented to Cupid at 247 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:08.079 a dinner given in his honor by the ancient and 248 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:12.880 honorable Society of Psychic Research, just when we cannot tell, 249 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:17.200 for unfortunately the date is only left in part. But 250 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:20.759 it must have been long, long ago, when love was 251 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:25.200 very young. There has been much controversy over this fragment, 252 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:29.440 some claiming it to represent a jaybird and others a duck, 253 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:32.839 some an owl because of the moon in its eye. 254 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:35.680 But we are sure it's a love of a dove. 255 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:40.160 Why because a jaybird is blue, a duck has webbed 256 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:43.759 feet and an owl a hooked bill. It is a 257 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:47.240 jolly letter and has been the beginning of much joy 258 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:50.960 and foolish jealousy. The worst thing it ever did was 259 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:55.440 when it started the word jilt. The men most attractive 260 00:20:55.480 --> 00:21:01.039 to such jolly girls as Jane, Julia, Josephine, Jemima, Juliet, 261 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:08.519 and Juliana are those of just but jovial disposition. Jealousy, 262 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:14.240 Cupid's shadow, jest see life, life is a jest, and 263 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:18.119 all things show it. I thought so once, but now 264 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:25.880 I know it. Gay's epigraph jilt an angel unawares. Originally jolt, 265 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:29.039 I e. A jolt on the path of true love 266 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:33.240 which never runs smooth. Schopenhauer, in his great work on 267 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:37.200 Dutch Treats, spells it a chit and gives it as 268 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:41.880 an obsolete past tense of the verb to chill joy. 269 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:49.440 The libretto of laughter June the time to make hay k. 270 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:52.000 The form of the letter K we trace to the 271 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:56.960 Assyrian cheribus figure of Karudbi the Mighty, who stood at 272 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:00.440 the gateway of earthly happiness and guarded the pass way 273 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:04.640 of true love. It is strange that these composite boy 274 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:08.519 bird figures were also known as she die. The nearest 275 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:14.480 word we have to which is the hebrew schat dim devils. Unquestionably, 276 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.319 it is from the word karubi that we get our 277 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:21.839 word cubid or cupid. The girls under this sign are 278 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:26.640 usually called Katherine, meaning pure, or one of its diminutives 279 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.920 Kitty or Kate. They are always kind and extremely kissable, 280 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:34.319 while the men are apt to be keen, knowledge seeker, 281 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:41.160 and knightly. Keth pronounced keth Arabic slang to loaf happily, 282 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:46.880 to invite one's soul, the action of doing nothing, kindness, 283 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:51.119 the larger half of the other boy's apple. King the 284 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:55.440 card that takes the queen. Kis mate a young lady 285 00:22:55.519 --> 00:23:01.359 one is on kissing terms with kismet, originally kiss met, 286 00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:07.000 meaning good luck. Kiss a course of procedure cunningly designed 287 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:10.119 for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when 288 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:16.079 words are superfluous. Kissing sea under mustache a pastime of 289 00:23:16.119 --> 00:23:21.480 the unmarried. Nie an adjustable animated set tee designed for 290 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:28.519 the use of ladies. Knowledge Dame Nature's lover, not an entanglement. 291 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:33.200 L Long long ago, the god of love was supposed 292 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:36.079 to dwell in the moon and was called Lemmic, the 293 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:40.799 moon god, from the sometimes startling effect moonlight had upon 294 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:44.359 the sentimental It was believed that the moonbeams were the 295 00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:48.039 arrows of the god of love, Cupid's arrows. Hence this 296 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.440 symbol sea cut came to mean affection, and from it 297 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:56.279 came the letter L, ranking very high in Cupid's alphabet, 298 00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:59.359 beginning as it does, the most important word in the 299 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:03.319 history of the world world Love. The symbol was usually 300 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.400 found as in Cupid's alphabet, following the symbol of kubid 301 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:10.839 and meaning that love follows in the path of Cupid. 302 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.119 The Neo Babylonian characters are the most sentimental ever known, 303 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.839 as they are made up almost entirely of arrangements of 304 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:27.119 this symbol slightly conventionalized Lois, Laura, Leonora, Lucy, Lydia, Lucretia, Luise, 305 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:32.240 and Lucinda. The women under this sign are languid, luscious, 306 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:36.759 lackadaisical and loving, while the men are usually named lionel 307 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:41.400 and are light hearted and lazy. Note it is interesting 308 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:45.240 to note the Chinese use of the same symbol surrounded 309 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:51.640 by tears pronounced sim meaning heart lap a pillow. C 310 00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:56.799 Gray here rests his head upon the lap of earth, lips, 311 00:24:57.240 --> 00:24:59.880 the two edges or borders of the mouth, the tw 312 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:03.880 two fleshy or muscular parts composing the opening of the mouth, 313 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:11.039 generally used for kissing, cussing, and conversation. Loneliness, an instigation, 314 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:16.480 the married man's meat, the single man's poison, lottery from 315 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:23.680 lot state, a rye askew, a cynical definition of marriage. Love, 316 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:28.279 a transitory derangement of all the five senses, the chemistry 317 00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:34.000 of attraction, lure. Cupid's signposts not always safe to follow, 318 00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:37.960 they may be found in many and fantastic shapes, such 319 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:42.160 as a bow of ribbon, a stray ringlet, a sidelong glance, 320 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:48.920 a sigh, or a breath of heliotrope m m is 321 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:52.720 so ancient that no one really knows where it came from. However, 322 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:55.880 because of the fragment of the jar shown here, sea 323 00:25:55.960 --> 00:26:01.160 cut found just outside the Garden of Eden and representing 324 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:05.319 two outsiders bargaining the origin of this letter has been 325 00:26:05.319 --> 00:26:09.079 credited to the Hebrews and is interesting in showing the 326 00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:14.960 politeness of these early people. Money, Moses, and mercantile all 327 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:19.400 strengthen this theory. Girls of this letter will be modest 328 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:24.240 and will have merry and magnetic dispositions, and will be 329 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:29.039 most happy when married to masterful, manly men of means. 330 00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:32.880 The one thing to mar this letter is its connection 331 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:37.759 with the word mitten. Marriage, the conventional ending of a 332 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:42.920 love affair, a lonesome state, memory, a thing to forget 333 00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:51.920 with mirror her mirror, cupid's cook stove, misery, lover of company, modesty, 334 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:58.440 conscious purity, mole, the exception that proves the rule money. 335 00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:06.119 See uncle monogamy sometimes spelled monotony moon, a planetary old 336 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:10.039 maid who busies herself about other people's love affairs, and 337 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:18.359 the recipient of love confidences missus the okay of respectability. Mustache, 338 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:22.079 As a kipling says, kissing a man without a mustache 339 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:26.880 is like eating an egg without salt. The question was 340 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:31.079 recently put before the ten million subscribers of The Perfect 341 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:35.000 Lady's Home Journal, every one of whom, without a single exception, 342 00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:39.000 replied that she did not know, never having eaten an 343 00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:44.119 egg without salt. A masculine note. If she is an 344 00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:47.279 m girl, you will be lucky. If her name is 345 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:51.880 Melinda or Miriam or Mabel or Miranda or Millicent or 346 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:57.119 Maud or Mehitabel, or Magdalen or Mariah or Minerva or 347 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:01.920 Marion or Minha or Margaret or Matilda or Marcia or 348 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:07.000 mary Anne or Melissa or Martha or Mary n is 349 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:09.880 the sign of the negative and is found in the 350 00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:13.640 form of an eel on an ancient Egyptian tablet from 351 00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:17.119 a lady refusing her hand in marriage and slipping out 352 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:21.640 of it in a nice and graceful manner, evidently the 353 00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:26.400 symbol of polite refusal. N Girls like Nora and Nancy 354 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:32.359 Annell will be nice and naive and sometimes naughty. It 355 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:35.279 is not a popular letter with men because of its 356 00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:42.599 association with nervous, no never, and numb nature. Dame Nature, 357 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:45.640 the mistress of the house of life in which love 358 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:50.680 is ever the favored guest. Neglect a breakfast food of love. 359 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:58.079 Never a feminine sign of yielding. No feminine for yes nothing, 360 00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:03.519 the boundaries of the universe and of love. Number Cupid's 361 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:09.119 lucky number two oh oh has its origin in the 362 00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:12.599 wedding ring and is the symbol of eternity. It seems 363 00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:14.960 to have been used by all the people of the earth, 364 00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:20.079 as we find in the Babylonian Archaic, Old Aramian Cypriot 365 00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:24.000 and practically in all writings of all times. From its 366 00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:28.759 very shape, it means happiness and content o girls will 367 00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:32.960 be orderly, and in olden times we're fond of osculation. 368 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:39.359 The men are often odd, ostentatious, and overbearing. Oceans a 369 00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:44.960 minute measure of love. Oh, an exclamation meaning this is 370 00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:50.799 so sudden. Onions should never be eaten alone. Opportunity an 371 00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:56.880 invitation of fate, osculation a game of chance, own to 372 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:03.559 possess from onus a burden. P P in its primitive form, 373 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.359 was the symbol of pairing, being as the cut shows 374 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:10.960 a combination of you and I, the sort of thing 375 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:14.039 a bashful lover would carve on a tree or stone, 376 00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:16.960 or scratch in the sand when taking a walk with 377 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:21.559 his adored one. It seems natural that it should stand 378 00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:28.599 for perfume, poetry, pastime, pleasure, passion, panacea, paradise, and peace. 379 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.400 In Cupi's alphabet, to prevent the slightest breath of scandal, 380 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:36.680 it is always placed after the symbol of the wedding ring. 381 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.160 The girls who come within the pale of this letter 382 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:47.039 see Phyllis, Prudence, Pearl, Penelope, Pauline, Philippa, Phoebe or Priscilla 383 00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:51.720 will be petite and pretty and will have perfect poise, 384 00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.400 while the men will be polite and polished, great posers 385 00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:01.680 and poker players, but pliable in the hands of woman. Passion, 386 00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:07.400 the father of tenderness. Purity, the mother of tenderness. Unconscious 387 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:13.839 modesty see modesty past, something to be forgotten, Patience the 388 00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:19.680 tip time gives to the waiter. Pity Love's half brother, pleasure, 389 00:31:20.119 --> 00:31:25.160 true love's shadow. Prudence said, Love, how strange we never 390 00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:28.160 met before, but now we've met. I hope we'll meet 391 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:33.480 no more q Q. As shown by this ancient bit 392 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:38.240 of sculptor, in its original hieroglyphic form, represented a lover's 393 00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:43.119 quarrel and from the cast of features, presumably an Amorite. 394 00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:46.799 This proves it of very ancient origin, as in the 395 00:31:46.839 --> 00:31:50.359 early times the Amorites were the dominant race of Syria 396 00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:55.039 and Canaan, which are named on the oldest Babylonian monuments 397 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:59.480 the land of the Amorites see Map of Amuria. There 398 00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:02.839 are plenty of Amorites in the world today, but they 399 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:06.480 show not the slightest desire to congregate, but quite to 400 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:10.039 the contrary, can be found wandering off in pairs at 401 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:15.599