WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:05.240 Part one of cupid Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford and John 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:09.080 cecil Clay. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. 3 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:16.239 Part one letters A through Z A the first letter 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.519 placed by Cupid at the head of his alphabet because 5 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:27.399 it stands for amor ardor art, affinity, affection, adoration, affability, angel, 6 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:31.719 et cetera. Also, A is the easiest word to spell, 7 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:35.759 with the exception of I. The origin of the form 8 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:38.359 of our capital letter A is supposed to have been 9 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:43.719 an Egyptian symbol c illustration representing two people engaged in 10 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:48.039 the ancient pastime called kissen, which survives even at the 11 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:51.759 present day. A by many, supposed to be the oldest 12 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:55.320 of the alphabet, and constituting as it does the initial 13 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:59.439 of Adam's name, was doubtless the only letter in existence 14 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:06.840 at the time Adam learned to write. The words arc Andtediluvian, ancestry, archaeology, 15 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:17.640 and antiquity all support the above theory. Girls like Adelaide, Agatha, Agnes, Alice, Althea, Amanda, Amy, Angelina, 16 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:23.799 and Arabella, whose initials fall in this letter will be attractive, amiable, artless, 17 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:28.079 and in the opposite sex most attracted by those of ardent, 18 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:35.599 ambitious and affable disposition. Absence, the sixth sense arrived at 19 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:39.959 by the exclusion of the other five. A powerful stimulant 20 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:45.280 to love. Sea longing, when combined with distance, lends enchantment 21 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:50.159 to the other five senses. Adamant masculine a very hard 22 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:55.760 word see father. Admiration from admi, the Persian word meaning 23 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:01.040 love and ration, food, love food or food of love. 24 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:09.000 Affinity feminine ad at FeNiS boundary, at the boundary the 25 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:13.919 one one meets around the corner. Alimony the fine for 26 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:18.479 speeding in the joy ride of matrimony. Alter the forge 27 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:22.400 where hearts are fused from the word halter to hitch, 28 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:28.240 a mount a foreign measure of love. Anchor the symbol 29 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:33.400 of hope. See English word anchor to long for angel 30 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:40.680 see her appendix see last page. Arm. The arm is 31 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:44.719 a muscular string connecting the hand with the shoulder. A 32 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:48.439 man can give his arm without giving his hand. Coat 33 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:53.120 of arms, cupids, heart shaped shield, gules, a pierced by 34 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:57.280 an arrow, argent crest on, an olive branch, a dove, 35 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:03.599 a proper ringed door flap outant Ash's fashionable lenten head 36 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:08.639 dress especially effective when combined with sackcloth, a vowel, a 37 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:14.680 showdown in the game of love. B B is supposed 38 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:18.120 to take its shape from the popular and industrious insect 39 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:22.919 known as the bee sea illustration. Others claim that its 40 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.639 form is copied from the curves of Cupid's bow. In 41 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:31.599 either case, its chief characteristic is busyness. B is a 42 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:36.800 letter beloved of all, bashful, bouncing, beautiful, and bonnie, all 43 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:40.639 of which pleasing attributes are the natural inheritance of the 44 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:46.759 girls to whose lot the initial bee shall fall. See Betty, Bella, Bertha, Bridget, 45 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:51.240 and Belinda. The most congenial qualities of the opposite sex 46 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:56.840 will be bravery, brawn, briskness, and brains. Baby a small 47 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:03.319 thing somewhat resembling a Cupid without wings. Bachelor neuter, an 48 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:11.400 immune balcony Cupid's fire escape beauty neuter an affection of 49 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:16.920 the skin taking, but not contagious. Most popular American export 50 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:25.199 best best girl see her bill see coup bird sea hat. 51 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.560 Blush a weakness of youth and an accomplishment of experience, 52 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:36.480 the pink of impropriety. Bond. There are two kinds, the 53 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.800 United States bonds and Cupid's bonds of the United State. 54 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:46.680 Bravery equality looked for in man, found in woman, the 55 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.040 personal adornment of a woman and the mental adornment of 56 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:54.879 a man. Breech breach of promised suit, a suit made 57 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:59.120 to fit the devil, but sometimes worn by Cupid. Break 58 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:05.079 to break hearts, popular pastime of the American girl brute 59 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:11.839 newt a husband see Se is the curliest of all 60 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:15.160 the letters. It takes its shape from the first golden 61 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.879 curl given as a love token by Cupid to Psyche 62 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:22.839 when he found her again after their first quarrel, thus 63 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:29.040 originating the society of psychical Research and the engagement ring. Sea, 64 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:33.480 being the initial of Cupid, has many of his charming graces, 65 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:41.560 being careless, coquettish, capricious, clandestine, clinging, and curious. These charms 66 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:44.079 will also be found in the maids who follow the 67 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:55.920 curly initial Sea. Among the Sea girls are the following Chloe, Clarinda, Clarice, Clara, Clementine, Catherine, Constance, Cynthia, 68 00:05:56.120 --> 00:06:03.720 and Carol. The attractive qualities of their affinity are candor, coolness, cynicism, cleverness, 69 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:09.040 and cash cake wedding cake, a sacharine monument to the 70 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:13.399 memory of love. Care the mother of thrift, and the 71 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:17.199 child of extravagance. If you do not take it before marriage, 72 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:21.759 it will overtake you. After caress a sort of dope, 73 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:26.639 very enjoyable cash, a sort of window fastener to keep 74 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:35.319 love from flying out. Cad masculine, the other man cat feminine, 75 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:40.639 the other woman. Chair a small, ingeniously constructed seat for 76 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:45.399 two people called after Cheops, the inventor. The first chair 77 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:49.319 was presented to Cassiopeia, and now appears in the constellation 78 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:53.800 of that name. Cheese part of Cupid's menu, bread and 79 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:59.279 cheese and kisses. Clock a paradoxical chaperone who is least 80 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:04.199 in the way when it doesn't go Company two consent 81 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:10.920 see Papa coup, c bill, courtship, a picturesque gateway to 82 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:18.800 a commonplace estate crowd three cure of love, marriage, curiosity, 83 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:23.319 the taper which lights the flame of love. Curl feminine 84 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:27.759 a man trap verb to curl. The dog curls up 85 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:31.079 to sleep, the cat curls up to sleep. Even my 86 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:35.560 lady curls up to sleep. Cynic one who has been 87 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:40.879 stung d. The letter D dates from about nine sixty 88 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:45.959 seven b c. Hippopotamia, one of Solomon's many wives having 89 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.279 been blessed with no children, had a little pet animal, 90 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:53.199 presumably much like the modern lapdog, of which she was 91 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:57.720 very fond and was forever exclaiming of it, isn't it dear, 92 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:04.199 or isn't it darling? Solomon would invariably reply no dog, onet, 93 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:10.519 and sometimes even no damn it. Then Hippopotamia would smile, 94 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:16.920 disclosing two very lovely dimples. Realizing the usefulness of such words, 95 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.160 Solomon created the letter D in order to be able 96 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:23.639 to spell them in the hieroglyphics of the times. It 97 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.319 was written as this fragment will show the form being 98 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:32.639 taken from Hippopotomia's a little pet dog. Hydrophobia. D has 99 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:35.000 turned out to be one of the most useful letters 100 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:42.000 in Cupid's alphabet, beginning as it does dearie, ducky dreams, delight, determination, 101 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:46.559 and desire, but it has an unhappy side in don't 102 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:53.000 disappointment and despair. The girls under these letters are all darlings, 103 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:59.039 see any one of them darling from dearling, a little deer, 104 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:07.000 sometimes excessively dear, dear beloved. Also expensive. Dawn, a term 105 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.879 for early morning used by people who don't have to 106 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:18.399 get up, defects what a woman loves a man for delusion, hopes, dressmaker, desire, 107 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:23.679 love's partner, dimple feminine, a pitfall in a garden of 108 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:29.759 blush roses. Doggerel rhyme without reason, generally written by puppies. 109 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:34.279 Dough that which is needed, a slang word for money. 110 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.559 Dove a tender foul popular both in poetry and cookery 111 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.000 books when too old to roast or broil. May be 112 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:46.759 served up in verse as the emblem of conjugal love. 113 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:51.639 Dream feminine term used by a woman describing a hat, 114 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:56.399 mass term describing the woman, used by the man who 115 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:01.399 is destined to buy the hat. Duel the highest compliment 116 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:06.440 two men can pay one woman duty. A millstone, sometimes 117 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:12.200 mistaken by Cupid for a heart, what we expect in others. E. 118 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:15.799 The letter E takes its shape from the elephant, in 119 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:20.039 whose symbolical anatomy it plays the most important part. It 120 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:23.159 is the belief of scientist that no animal has been 121 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:28.559 responsible for more exclamations expressive of amazement than the elephant. 122 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:34.720 The presence of E in ejaculation extraordinary, e gad enormous 123 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:38.240 is directly traceable to the close relation of the letter 124 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:43.240 to that popular pachyderm, the girls under E, for instance, 125 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:49.799 Edith eleanor Elizabeth, Els, Emily, Emma Ester, Eunice, Evangeline, and 126 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:55.600 Evelina are distinguished for E's elegance, excitability, and economy, and 127 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:59.480 will be most attracted to the opposite sex by extravagance, 128 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:06.399 x and ntricity and early rising escape, divorce, eternity. Oh, 129 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.919 I'll be down in a minute, evil a while of 130 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:14.320 the devil, ever and forever the devil of a while. 131 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:23.039 Excuse self accusation, experience, an expensive tutor, eyebrow, a mustache 132 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:28.200 worn over the eye, an incentive to sonnets. F. The 133 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.399 form of the letter F was first discovered on an 134 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.039 ancient fragment of pottery by a German archaeologist, in the 135 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.440 shape of a sandal on what is supposed to be 136 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:40.279 the foot of Achilles. As will be seen in the 137 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:43.840 accompanying cut, the heel of the sandal and the part 138 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:47.080 covering what is known as the tendon of Achilles, is 139 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:51.240 peculiarly designed for the protection of that part of the foot, 140 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:55.080 which was the only vulnerable spot in Achilles' foot. This 141 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:59.200 can at best be accepted only as an ingenious conjecture. 142 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:04.480 F girls will be frank fragile and fastidious, and those 143 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:10.480 named Fanny, Felicia, Flora, Fidelia, Florence, Francis, or flow will 144 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:13.960 find their affinities in those of the opposite sex, who 145 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:20.480 are fearless, fickle, and fantastic. Fainting obsolete a feminine maneuver 146 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:26.159 fashion feminine the sum of all the virtues fig fig 147 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.840 leaf a fall fashion of a false modiste see Figure one. 148 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:37.240 First first love, an appetizer, first kiss. Much has been 149 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:41.919 written about the exquisite joy of this. Still it is unsatisfying. 150 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:46.840 Hence the second, the third, et cetera ad lib flirtation 151 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.120 away for two people who are not married to each 152 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:53.399 other to pass the time. As a matter of fact, 153 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:58.000 a flirtation isn't anything. It's a thing to do, and 154 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.799 is really easier to do than to describe. There are 155 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:06.200 many sorts of flirtation. The every day or sidewalk flirtation 156 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:11.600 is the commonest kind. Other very popular forms are the eye, 157 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:16.600 the eyebrow, the fan, the glove, the handkerchief, and the foot. 158 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:22.120 Flirtation a natural attribute to woman, but an easily acquired 159 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:28.399 accomplishment in man. Forever Love's promissory note subject to discount 160 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.759 g The present form of the letter G is derived 161 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:37.360 from the ancient Babylonian symbol for G. The letter in 162 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:40.240 its present shape is composed of only half of the 163 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:46.399 Babylonian symbol, which is properly written GG or gg C cut. 164 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:49.639 When we consider that without this letter there could be 165 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:52.879 no girls in the world, we should be thankful for G. 166 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:56.120 In fact, we are in favor of its being made 167 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:02.159 the national thanksgiving letter. Gertrude, Georgiana, Grace, and all the 168 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:07.039 girls of this letter will be glorious with their generosity, gentleness, grace, 169 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.799 and gaiety, and cannot be won by gold or gems. 170 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.519 He who would win one of these must be guileless 171 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:20.480 and go ahead. Garter ce n a species of serpent 172 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:25.480 gas gaslight, a light often too weak for one, and 173 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:29.799 generally too strong for two. The fainter the gas, the braver, 174 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:35.080 the beau. Shakespeare girl, the beginning of trouble. An apple 175 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:41.360 blossom in the garden of love, gooseberry an unbidden fruit, gossip, 176 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:46.120 nothing to speak of. Grass widow. A grass widow is 177 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:50.879 a widow which makes hey h. The eighth letter of 178 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.960 Cupid's alphabet takes its form from the Hittite symbol, meaning 179 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:58.759 an heir has been born to his house. The symbol, 180 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:03.200 as shown in the represents two hit I gentlemen shaking hands. 181 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:06.679 The gladder looking one is the proud father and is 182 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.759 being congratulated upon the birth of his first son. Girls 183 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:14.200 did not count for so much then as now. In 184 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:18.440 later symbolic writing, this symbol came to stand for a 185 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:22.440 pleasant or good natured greeting, as shown in such words 186 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:28.200 as Howdy, Hittite, how North American, Indian, how de dew 187 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:35.320 New England, Hello, telephonic, and hail. It would be hard 188 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.759 to reckon the immense amount of good this letter has done. 189 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.120 For without hell and headache, how many of us would 190 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:47.320 be good? And oh the joys of life? For without age, 191 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:53.480 where would happiness and the honeymoon be? And where heart, hope, 192 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:58.840 health and harmony. Girls under this sign will be handsome, honest, 193 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:03.240 and home loving. But those named Helen, Harriet, Henrietta, and 194 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:08.960 Hannah seem to be easily hypnotized by hollow, hypocritical humbugs 195 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:14.679 of the opposite sex. Hooray, happiness, the mainspring of the 196 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:19.879 good time piece, heaven all in her eye, heart, the 197 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:24.879 ticker in the bourse of love, horticulture, see Cupid's almanac. 198 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:32.360 Hell an expression of petulance, hesitation, the thief of good times, honesty, 199 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:36.559 a bunker in the game of love, honeymoon, the sugar 200 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:40.440 on the bread of matrimony, Hope, the child of care, 201 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:46.240 and pretty sister of despair. I, the letter I spells 202 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.799 by itself the most popular word in our language, though 203 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.039 under Cupid's spell the word you is more thought of, 204 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:57.360 you and I being often the most happy of Cupid's combination, 205 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:01.039 I is the most attenuated life letter of the alphabet. 206 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:05.519 By some the letter I is supposed to have possessed 207 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:10.079 originally a well rounded and ornate figure, having been worn 208 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:14.279 to its present threadlike shape by constant use in speech 209 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:18.720 and writing. When not acting in its popular capacity a 210 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:23.160 first person pronoun, I is anything but popular as a letter, 211 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:30.160 standing as it does for indifference, irksomeness, insignificance, industry, and 212 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:35.200 other uncongenial things. I has a leaning to the cold 213 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:38.680 and classic in its choice of females, some of its 214 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:45.920 favorites being ethigenia, irene, imogen idias, and iolante. To these ladies, 215 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:51.079 the most appealing masculine qualities will be irony, idleness, independence, 216 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:56.799 and impecuniosity I, the most popular letter in the alphabet. 217 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:02.079 If the drawbridge to the Castle of Hope, illusion loves 218 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:07.319 Taylor and arts servant ink, the stuff that bills books 219 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:12.599 and billy doo are made of innocence, a moral vacuum. 220 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:17.240 Jay jay, we are confident, takes the shape from one 221 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.559 of Venus's doves. We don't know which one, but we 222 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:23.400 think it is the dove of peace, or possibly the 223 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:26.440 turtle dove. We are quite sure it is not from 224 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:30.160 the ring dove. To strengthen our theory, we present herewith 225 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:33.599 a cut of a fragment of a loving cup presented 226 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:36.640 to Cupid at a dinner given in his honor by 227 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:40.880 the ancient and honorable Society of Psychic Research, just when 228 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.480 we cannot tell, for unfortunately the date is only left 229 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:49.039 in part. But it must have been long, long ago, 230 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:53.599 when love was very young. There has been much controversy 231 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:57.319 over this fragment, some claiming it to represent a jaybird 232 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:01.000 and others a duck, some an hol oh because of 233 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:04.000 the moon in its eye. But we are sure it's 234 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:07.480 a love of a dove. Why because a jay bird 235 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:10.960 is blue, a duck has webbed feet, and an owl. 236 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.480 A hooked Bill. It is a jolly letter and has 237 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:18.599 been the beginning of much joy and foolish jealousy. The 238 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:21.400 worst thing it ever did was when it started the 239 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:26.200 word jilt. The men most attractive to such jolly girls 240 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:32.559 as Jane, Julia, Josephine, Jemima, Juliet and Juliana are those 241 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:41.680 of just but jovial disposition. Jealousy, Cupid's shadow, jest see life, 242 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:45.480 life is a jest, and all things show it. I 243 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:50.240 thought so once, but now I know it. Gay's epigraph 244 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:57.000 jilt an angel unawares. Originally jolt, I e. A jolt 245 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:01.599 on the path of true love which never runs smooth. Schopenhauer, 246 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:04.559 in his great work on Dutch Treats, spells it a 247 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.640 chit and gives it as an obsolete past tense of 248 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:14.119 the verb to chill joy the libretto of laughter June 249 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:19.720 the time to make hay k. The form of the 250 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:23.559 letter K we trace to the Assyrian cheribus figure of 251 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:27.480 Karudbi the Mighty, who stood at the gateway of earthly 252 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:31.440 happiness and guarded the pathway of true love. It is 253 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:36.119 strange that these composite boy bird figures were also known 254 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:39.880 as shed the nearest word we have to which is 255 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:44.960 the Hebrew shadim devils. Unquestionably, it is from the word 256 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:49.880 karubi that we get our word cubid or cupid. The 257 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:53.759 girls under this sign are usually called Katherine, meaning pure, 258 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:58.160 or one of its diminutives Kitty or Kate. They are 259 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:01.720 always kind and extremely kiss while the men are apt 260 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:07.799 to be keen, knowledge seeker, and knightly. Kef pronounced kef 261 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:13.000 Arabic slang to loaf happily, to invite one's soul the 262 00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:17.799 action of doing nothing, kindness, the larger half of the 263 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:22.240 other boy's apple. King the card that takes the queen. 264 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.880 Kis mate a young lady one is on kissing terms 265 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:33.559 with kismet, originally kis met meaning good luck kiss, a 266 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.880 course of procedure cunningly designed for the mutual stoppage of 267 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:43.000 speech at a moment when words are superfluous. Kissing see 268 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:48.559 under mustache, a pastime of the unmarried Nie an adjustable 269 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:54.000 animated setee designed for the use of ladies knowledge Dame 270 00:21:54.119 --> 00:22:01.160 Nature's lover, not an entanglement. L Long long ago, the 271 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:03.680 god of love was supposed to dwell in the moon 272 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:07.880 and was called Lemmic, the moon god. From the sometimes 273 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:12.319 startling effect moonlight had upon the sentimental it was believed 274 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:15.240 that the moonbeams were the arrows of the god of love, 275 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:20.799 Cupid's arrows. Hence this symbol sea cut came to mean affection, 276 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:24.440 and from it came the letter L, ranking very high 277 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:28.200 in Cupid's alphabet, beginning as it does, the most important 278 00:22:28.240 --> 00:22:31.799 word in the history of the world. Love. The symbol 279 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:35.960 was usually found as in Cupid's alphabet, following the symbol 280 00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:39.559 of kubid and meaning that love follows in the path 281 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:43.920 of Cupid. The Neo Babylonian characters are the most sentimental 282 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:47.359 ever known, as they are made up almost entirely of 283 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:56.519 arrangements of this symbol slightly conventionalized Lois, Laura, Leonora, Lucy, Lydia, Lucretia, Luise, 284 00:22:56.599 --> 00:23:02.599 and Lucinda. The women under this sign languid, luscious, lackadaisical 285 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:06.400 and loving, while the men are usually named lionel and 286 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:10.920 are light hearted and lazy. Note it is interesting to 287 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:14.960 note the Chinese use of the same symbol surrounded by 288 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:21.640 tears pronounced sim meaning heart, lap a pillow see gray 289 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:26.200 here rests his head upon the lap of earth lips. 290 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:29.519 The two edges or borders of the mouth, the two 291 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:33.279 fleshy or muscular parts composing the opening of the mouth, 292 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:40.440 generally used for kissing, cussing, and conversation. Loneliness, an instigation, 293 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:45.880 the married man's meat, the single man's poison, lottery from 294 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:53.039 lot state, a rye askew, a cynical definition of marriage. Love, 295 00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:57.680 a transitory derangement of all the five senses, the chemistry 296 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:03.359 of attraction, lure. Cupid's signposts not always safe to follow, 297 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:07.359 they may be found in many and fantastic shapes, such 298 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.559 as a bow of ribbon, a stray ringlet, a sidelong glance, 299 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:18.319 a sigh, or a breath of heliotrope m m is 300 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:22.079 so ancient that no one really knows where it came from. However, 301 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:25.279 because of the fragment of the jar shown here, sea 302 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:30.559 cut found just outside the Garden of Eden and representing 303 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:34.680 two outsiders bargaining. The origin of this letter has been 304 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:38.480 credited to the Hebrews and is interesting in showing the 305 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:44.319 politeness of these early people. Money, Moses, and mercantile all 306 00:24:44.359 --> 00:24:48.759 strengthen this theory. Girls of this letter will be modest 307 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:53.599 and will have merry and magnetic dispositions, and will be 308 00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:58.440 most happy when married two masterful, manly men of means. 309 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:02.279 The one thing to mar this letter is its connection 310 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:07.160 with the word mitten. Marriage, the conventional ending of a 311 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:12.279 love affair, a lonesome state, memory, a thing to forget 312 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:21.319 with mirror her mirror, cupid's cook stove, misery, lover of company, modesty, 313 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:27.799 conscious purity, mole, the exception that proves the rule money 314 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:35.519 see uncle monogamy sometimes spelled monotony moon. A planetary old 315 00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:39.400 maid who busies herself about other people's love affairs and 316 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:47.640 the recipient of love confidences missus the okay of respectability. Mustache, 317 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:51.480 as a kipling says, kissing a man without a mustache 318 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:56.279 is like eating an egg without salt. The question was 319 00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:00.519 recently put before the ten million subscribers of the Perfect 320 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:04.440 Ladies home journal, every one of whom, without a single exception, 321 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:08.400 replied that she did not know, never having eaten an 322 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:13.480 egg without salt. A masculine note. If she is an 323 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:16.640 m girl, you will be lucky. If her name is 324 00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:21.240 Melinda or Miriam or Mabel or Miranda or Milicent or 325 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:26.519 Maud or Mehitabel or Magdalen or Mariah or Minerva or 326 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:31.319 Marion or Minha or Margaret or Matilda or Marcia or 327 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:36.400 mary Anne or Melissa or Martha or Mary n is 328 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:39.240 the sign of the negative and is found in the 329 00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:43.000 form of an eel on an ancient Egyptian tablet from 330 00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:46.519 a lady refusing her hand in marriage and slipping out 331 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:51.000 of it in a nice and graceful manner, evidently the 332 00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:55.799 symbol of polite refusal. N Girls like Nora and Nancy 333 00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:01.079 Annell will be nice and naive and some times naughty. 334 00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:04.480 It is not a popular letter with men because of 335 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:11.039 its association with nervous, no never, and numb nature. A 336 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:14.359 dame nature, the mistress of the house of life in 337 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:19.240 which love is ever the favored guest. Neglect a breakfast 338 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:24.319 food of love. Never, a feminine sign of yielding. No 339 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:30.079 feminine for yes, nothing, the boundaries of the universe and 340 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:37.240 of love. Number Cupid's lucky number two oh oh has 341 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.200 its origin in the wedding ring and is the symbol 342 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:43.279 of eternity. It seems to have been used by all 343 00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:45.559 the people of the earth, as we find in the 344 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:51.440 Babylonian Archaic, Old Aramian Cypriot and practically in all writings 345 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:55.480 of all times. From its very shape, it means happiness 346 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:59.920 and content. O girls will be orderly and in old 347 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:06.079 and times were fond of osculation. The men are often odd, ostentatious, 348 00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:12.119 and overbearing. Oceans a minute measure of love. Oh, an 349 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:17.480 exclamation meaning this is so sudden. Onions should never be 350 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:23.839 eaten alone. Opportunity an invitation of fate, osculation a game 351 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:31.119 of chance own to possess from onus a burden. P 352 00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:35.400 P in its primitive form, was the symbol of pairing, being, 353 00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:38.920 as the cut shows, a combination of you and I, 354 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:42.200 the sort of thing a bashful lover would carve on 355 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:45.400 a tree or stone, or scratch in the sand when 356 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:49.720 taking a walk with his adored one. It seems natural 357 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:56.839 that it should stand for perfume, poetry, pastime, pleasure, passion, panacea, paradise, 358 00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:02.079 and peace in Cupid's alphabet. To prevent the slightest breath 359 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:05.319 of scandal, it is always placed after the symbol of 360 00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:08.759 the wedding ring. The girls who come within the pale 361 00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:15.359 of this letter see Phyllis, Prudence, Pearl, Penelope, Pauline, Philippa, Phoebe, 362 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:19.880 or Priscilla will be petite and pretty and will have 363 00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:24.039 perfect poise, while the men will be polite and polished, 364 00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:29.000 great posers and poker players, but pliable in the hands 365 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:34.720 of woman. Passion, the father of tenderness, Purity, the mother 366 00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:41.599 of tenderness. Unconscious modesty see modesty past, something to be forgotten, 367 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:47.160 Patience the tip time gives to the waiter, Pity, Love's 368 00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:53.599 half brother, pleasure, true Love's shadow. Prudence said, Love, how 369 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:56.799 strange we never met before, but now we've met. I 370 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:01.799 hope we'll meet no more q Q. As shown by 371 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:06.200 this ancient bit of sculptor, in its original hieroglyphic form, 372 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:10.319 represented a lover's quarrel and from the cast of features, 373 00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:15.440 presumably an amorite. This proves it of very ancient origin, 374 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:18.720 as in the early times the Amorites were the dominant 375 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:22.400 race of Syria and Canaan, which are named on the 376 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:27.039 oldest Babylonian monuments the land of the Amorites see Map 377 00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:31.079 of Amuria. There are plenty of Amorites in the world 378 00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:34.759 to day, but they show not the slightest desire to congregate, 379 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:38.559 but quite to the contrary, can be found wandering off 380 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:44.960 in pairs at the slightest pretext such words as a quibble, quirk, quiz, quip, 381 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:49.720 and querulous seem to strengthen the unpleasant features of this letter. 382 00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:54.319 Fortunately there are no q girls. They would be very 383 00:30:54.400 --> 00:31:01.240 queer if there were question woman r This form we 384 00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:04.160 find first used as the symbol of the seal of 385 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:08.240 rabsarias chief of the eunuchs, in the reign of Senaka, 386 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:13.200 the King of Assyria. The symbol evidently represents Rabsaris at 387 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:17.000 his daily task of watching the ladies of the Royal 388 00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:20.839 Harim to see that they did not indulge too freely 389 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.480 in sweetmeats. Some wit of the day twisted Rabsaries into 390 00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:30.599 Rabari in Assyrian to stretch to rubber, and so a 391 00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.799 new symbol in the writing of the times was born, 392 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.559 and we have the letter R, not the most cheerful 393 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:45.480 letter in Cupid's alphabet, bringing with it as it does refusal, regret, remorse, revenge, please, remit, 394 00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:50.400 and that great hindrance to lovers. Reason. Girls under this 395 00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:53.720 sign combine the sweetness of the rose with the fire 396 00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:57.119 and depth of the ruby, and will be most attracted 397 00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:01.160 to those in the opposite sects of reckless and roving 398 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:06.720 disposition religion. In the religion of love, the Cortazan is 399 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:11.880 a heretic, but the nun is an atheist. Richard Garnet ribbon, 400 00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:17.440 a rope in disguise, Rice, the confetti of matrimony, ring 401 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:24.519