Speaker 1: Part one of cupid Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford and John
Speaker 1: cecil Clay. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
Speaker 1: Part one letters A through Z A the first letter
Speaker 1: placed by Cupid at the head of his alphabet because
Speaker 1: it stands for amor ardor art, affinity, affection, adoration, affability, angel,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Also, A is the easiest word to spell,
Speaker 1: with the exception of I. The origin of the form
Speaker 1: of our capital letter A is supposed to have been
Speaker 1: an Egyptian symbol c illustration representing two people engaged in
Speaker 1: the ancient pastime called kissen, which survives even at the
Speaker 1: present day. A by many, supposed to be the oldest
Speaker 1: of the alphabet, and constituting as it does the initial
Speaker 1: of Adam's name, was doubtless the only letter in existence
Speaker 1: at the time Adam learned to write. The words arc Andtediluvian, ancestry, archaeology,
Speaker 1: and antiquity 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 ardent,
Speaker 1: ambitious and affable disposition. Absence, the sixth sense arrived at
Speaker 1: by the exclusion of the other five. A powerful stimulant
Speaker 1: to love. Sea longing, when combined with distance, lends enchantment
Speaker 1: to the other five senses. Adamant masculine a very hard
Speaker 1: word see father. Admiration from admi, the Persian word meaning
Speaker 1: love and ration, food, love food or food of love.
Speaker 1: Affinity feminine ad at FeNiS boundary, at the boundary the
Speaker 1: one one meets around the corner. Alimony the fine for
Speaker 1: speeding in the joy ride of matrimony. Alter the forge
Speaker 1: where hearts are fused from the word halter to hitch,
Speaker 1: a mount a foreign measure of love. Anchor the symbol
Speaker 1: of hope. See English word anchor to long for angel
Speaker 1: see her appendix see last page. Arm. The arm is
Speaker 1: a muscular string connecting the hand with the shoulder. A
Speaker 1: man can give his arm without giving his hand. Coat
Speaker 1: of arms, cupids, heart shaped shield, gules, a pierced by
Speaker 1: an arrow, argent crest on, an olive branch, a dove,
Speaker 1: a proper ringed door flap outant Ash's fashionable lenten head
Speaker 1: dress especially effective when combined with sackcloth, a vowel, a
Speaker 1: showdown in the game of love. B B is supposed
Speaker 1: to take its shape from the popular and industrious insect
Speaker 1: known as the bee sea illustration. Others claim that its
Speaker 1: form is copied from the curves of Cupid's bow. In
Speaker 1: either case, its chief characteristic is busyness. B is a
Speaker 1: letter beloved of all, bashful, bouncing, beautiful, and bonnie, all
Speaker 1: of which pleasing attributes are the natural inheritance of the
Speaker 1: girls to 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 see coup bird sea hat.
Speaker 1: Blush a weakness of youth and an accomplishment of experience,
Speaker 1: the pink of impropriety. Bond. There are two kinds, the
Speaker 1: United States bonds and Cupid's bonds of the United State.
Speaker 1: Bravery equality looked for in man, found in woman, the
Speaker 1: personal adornment of a woman and the mental adornment of
Speaker 1: a man. Breech breach of promised suit, a suit made
Speaker 1: to fit the devil, but sometimes worn by Cupid. Break
Speaker 1: to break hearts, popular pastime of the American girl brute
Speaker 1: newt a husband see Se is the curliest of all
Speaker 1: the letters. It takes its shape from the first golden
Speaker 1: curl given as a love token by Cupid to Psyche
Speaker 1: when he found her again after their first quarrel, thus
Speaker 1: originating the society of psychical Research and the engagement ring. Sea,
Speaker 1: being the initial of Cupid, has many of his charming graces,
Speaker 1: being careless, coquettish, capricious, clandestine, clinging, and curious. These charms
Speaker 1: will also be found in the maids who follow the
Speaker 1: curly initial Sea. Among the Sea girls are the following Chloe, Clarinda, Clarice, Clara, Clementine, Catherine, Constance, Cynthia,
Speaker 1: and Carol. The attractive qualities of their affinity 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 Cheops, 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, c 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 to curl. The dog curls up
Speaker 1: to sleep, the cat curls up to sleep. Even my
Speaker 1: lady curls up to sleep. Cynic 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, onet,
Speaker 1: and sometimes even no damn it. Then Hippopotamia would smile,
Speaker 1: disclosing two very lovely dimples. Realizing the usefulness of such words,
Speaker 1: Solomon created the letter D in order to be able
Speaker 1: to spell them in the hieroglyphics of the times. It
Speaker 1: was written as this fragment will show the form being
Speaker 1: taken from Hippopotomia's a little pet dog. Hydrophobia. D has
Speaker 1: turned out to be one of the most useful letters
Speaker 1: 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: Dough 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 roast 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 others. E.
Speaker 1: The letter E takes its shape from the elephant, in
Speaker 1: whose symbolical anatomy it plays the most important part. It
Speaker 1: is the belief of scientist that no animal has been
Speaker 1: 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,
Speaker 1: Edith eleanor Elizabeth, Els, Emily, Emma Ester, Eunice, Evangeline, and
Speaker 1: Evelina are distinguished for E's elegance, excitability, and economy, and
Speaker 1: will be most attracted to the opposite sex by extravagance,
Speaker 1: x and ntricity and early rising escape, divorce, eternity. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll be down in a minute, evil a while of
Speaker 1: the devil, ever and forever the devil of a while.
Speaker 1: Excuse self accusation, experience, an expensive tutor, eyebrow, a mustache
Speaker 1: worn over the eye, an incentive to sonnets. F. The
Speaker 1: form of the letter F was first discovered on an
Speaker 1: ancient fragment of pottery by a German archaeologist, in the
Speaker 1: shape of a sandal on what is supposed to be
Speaker 1: the foot of Achilles. As will be seen in the
Speaker 1: accompanying cut, the heel of the sandal and the part
Speaker 1: covering what is known as the tendon of Achilles, is
Speaker 1: peculiarly designed for the protection of that part of the foot,
Speaker 1: which was the only vulnerable spot in Achilles' foot. This
Speaker 1: can at best be accepted only as an ingenious conjecture.
Speaker 1: F girls will be frank fragile and fastidious, and those
Speaker 1: named Fanny, Felicia, Flora, Fidelia, Florence, Francis, or flow will
Speaker 1: find their affinities in those of the opposite sex, who
Speaker 1: are fearless, fickle, and fantastic. Fainting obsolete a feminine maneuver
Speaker 1: fashion feminine the sum of all the virtues fig fig
Speaker 1: leaf a fall fashion of a false modiste see Figure one.
Speaker 1: First first love, an appetizer, first kiss. Much has been
Speaker 1: written about the exquisite joy of this. Still it is unsatisfying.
Speaker 1: Hence the second, the third, et cetera ad lib flirtation
Speaker 1: away for two people who are not married to each
Speaker 1: other to pass the time. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: a flirtation isn't anything. It's a thing to do, and
Speaker 1: is really easier to do than to describe. There are
Speaker 1: many sorts of flirtation. The every day or sidewalk flirtation
Speaker 1: is the commonest kind. Other very popular forms are the eye,
Speaker 1: the eyebrow, the fan, the glove, the handkerchief, and the foot.
Speaker 1: Flirtation a natural attribute to woman, but an easily acquired
Speaker 1: accomplishment in man. Forever Love's promissory note subject to discount
Speaker 1: g The present form of the letter G is derived
Speaker 1: from the ancient Babylonian symbol for G. The letter in
Speaker 1: its present shape is composed of only half of the
Speaker 1: Babylonian symbol, which is properly written GG or gg C cut.
Speaker 1: When we consider that without this letter there could be
Speaker 1: no girls in the world, we should be thankful for G.
Speaker 1: In fact, we are in favor of its being made
Speaker 1: the national thanksgiving letter. Gertrude, Georgiana, Grace, and all the
Speaker 1: girls of 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 ce 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. An 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 represents two hit I 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, how de dew
Speaker 1: New England, Hello, telephonic, and hail. It would be hard
Speaker 1: to 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 bourse 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's 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 life letter of the alphabet.
Speaker 1: By some the letter I is supposed to have possessed
Speaker 1: originally a well rounded and ornate figure, having been worn
Speaker 1: to its present threadlike shape by constant use in speech
Speaker 1: and writing. When not acting in its popular capacity a
Speaker 1: first person pronoun, I is anything but popular as a letter,
Speaker 1: standing as it does for indifference, irksomeness, insignificance, industry, and
Speaker 1: other uncongenial things. I has a leaning to the cold
Speaker 1: and classic in its choice of females, some of its
Speaker 1: favorites being ethigenia, irene, imogen idias, and iolante. To these ladies,
Speaker 1: the most appealing masculine qualities will be irony, idleness, independence,
Speaker 1: and impecuniosity I, the most popular letter in the alphabet.
Speaker 1: If the drawbridge to the Castle of Hope, illusion loves
Speaker 1: Taylor and arts servant ink, the stuff that bills books
Speaker 1: and billy doo are made of innocence, a moral vacuum.
Speaker 1: Jay jay, we are confident, takes the shape from one
Speaker 1: of Venus's doves. We don't know which one, but we
Speaker 1: think it is the dove of peace, or possibly the
Speaker 1: turtle dove. We are quite sure it is not from
Speaker 1: the ring dove. To strengthen our theory, we present herewith
Speaker 1: a cut of a fragment of a loving cup presented
Speaker 1: to Cupid at a dinner given in his honor by
Speaker 1: the ancient and honorable Society of Psychic Research, just when
Speaker 1: we cannot tell, for unfortunately the date is only left
Speaker 1: in part. But it must have been long, long ago,
Speaker 1: when love was very young. There has been much controversy
Speaker 1: over this fragment, some claiming it to represent a jaybird
Speaker 1: and others a duck, some an hol oh because of
Speaker 1: the moon in its eye. But we are sure it's
Speaker 1: a love of a dove. Why because a jay bird
Speaker 1: is blue, a duck has webbed feet, and an owl.
Speaker 1: A hooked Bill. It is a jolly letter and has
Speaker 1: been the beginning of much joy and foolish jealousy. The
Speaker 1: worst thing it ever did was when it started the
Speaker 1: word jilt. The men most attractive to such jolly girls
Speaker 1: as Jane, Julia, Josephine, Jemima, Juliet and Juliana are those
Speaker 1: of just but jovial disposition. Jealousy, Cupid's shadow, jest see life,
Speaker 1: life is a jest, and all things show it. I
Speaker 1: thought so once, but now I know it. Gay's epigraph
Speaker 1: jilt an angel unawares. Originally jolt, I e. A jolt
Speaker 1: on the path of true love which never runs smooth. Schopenhauer,
Speaker 1: in his great work on Dutch Treats, spells it a
Speaker 1: chit and gives it as an obsolete past tense of
Speaker 1: the verb to chill joy the libretto of laughter June
Speaker 1: the time to make hay k. The form of the
Speaker 1: letter K we trace to the Assyrian cheribus figure of
Speaker 1: Karudbi the Mighty, who stood at the gateway of earthly
Speaker 1: happiness and guarded the pathway of true love. It is
Speaker 1: strange that these composite boy bird figures were also known
Speaker 1: as shed the nearest word we have to which is
Speaker 1: the Hebrew shadim devils. Unquestionably, it is from the word
Speaker 1: karubi that we get our word cubid or cupid. The
Speaker 1: girls under this sign are usually called Katherine, meaning pure,
Speaker 1: or one of its diminutives Kitty or Kate. They are
Speaker 1: always kind and extremely kiss while the men are apt
Speaker 1: to be keen, knowledge seeker, and knightly. Kef pronounced kef
Speaker 1: Arabic slang to loaf happily, to invite one's soul the
Speaker 1: action of doing nothing, kindness, the larger half of the
Speaker 1: other boy's apple. King the card that takes the queen.
Speaker 1: Kis mate a young lady one is on kissing terms
Speaker 1: with kismet, originally kis met meaning good luck kiss, a
Speaker 1: course of procedure cunningly designed for the mutual stoppage of
Speaker 1: speech at a moment when words are superfluous. Kissing see
Speaker 1: under mustache, a pastime of the unmarried Nie an adjustable
Speaker 1: animated setee designed for the use of ladies knowledge Dame
Speaker 1: Nature's lover, not an entanglement. L Long long ago, the
Speaker 1: god of love was supposed to dwell in the moon
Speaker 1: and was called Lemmic, the moon god. From the sometimes
Speaker 1: startling effect moonlight had upon the sentimental it was believed
Speaker 1: that the moonbeams were the arrows of the god of love,
Speaker 1: Cupid's arrows. Hence this symbol sea cut came to mean affection,
Speaker 1: and from it came the letter L, ranking very high
Speaker 1: in Cupid's alphabet, beginning as it does, the most important
Speaker 1: word in the history of the world. Love. The symbol
Speaker 1: was usually found as in Cupid's alphabet, following the symbol
Speaker 1: of kubid and meaning that love follows in the path
Speaker 1: of Cupid. The Neo Babylonian characters are the most sentimental
Speaker 1: ever known, as they are made up almost entirely of
Speaker 1: arrangements of this symbol slightly conventionalized Lois, Laura, Leonora, Lucy, Lydia, Lucretia, Luise,
Speaker 1: and Lucinda. The women under this sign languid, luscious, lackadaisical
Speaker 1: and loving, while the men are usually named lionel and
Speaker 1: are light hearted and lazy. Note it is interesting to
Speaker 1: note the Chinese use of the same symbol surrounded by
Speaker 1: tears pronounced sim meaning heart, lap a pillow see gray
Speaker 1: here rests his head upon the lap of earth lips.
Speaker 1: The two edges or borders of the mouth, the two
Speaker 1: 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 two 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: Ladies 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 Milicent 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 some times naughty.
Speaker 1: It is not a popular letter with men because of
Speaker 1: its association with nervous, no never, and numb nature. A
Speaker 1: dame nature, the mistress of the house of life in
Speaker 1: which love is ever the favored guest. Neglect a breakfast
Speaker 1: food of love. Never, a feminine sign of yielding. No
Speaker 1: feminine for yes, nothing, the boundaries of the universe and
Speaker 1: of love. Number Cupid's lucky number two oh oh has
Speaker 1: its origin in the wedding ring and is the symbol
Speaker 1: of eternity. It seems to have been used by all
Speaker 1: the people of the earth, as we find in the
Speaker 1: Babylonian Archaic, Old Aramian Cypriot and practically in all writings
Speaker 1: of all times. From its very shape, it means happiness
Speaker 1: and content. O girls will be orderly and in old
Speaker 1: and times were fond of osculation. The men are often odd, ostentatious,
Speaker 1: and overbearing. Oceans a minute measure of love. Oh, an
Speaker 1: exclamation meaning this is so sudden. Onions should never be
Speaker 1: eaten alone. Opportunity an invitation of fate, osculation a game
Speaker 1: of chance own to possess from onus a burden. P
Speaker 1: P in its primitive form, was the symbol of pairing, being,
Speaker 1: as the cut shows, a combination of you and I,
Speaker 1: the sort of thing a bashful lover would carve on
Speaker 1: a tree or stone, or scratch in the sand when
Speaker 1: taking a walk with his adored one. It seems natural
Speaker 1: that it should stand for perfume, poetry, pastime, pleasure, passion, panacea, paradise,
Speaker 1: and peace in Cupid's alphabet. To prevent the slightest breath
Speaker 1: of scandal, it is always placed after the symbol of
Speaker 1: the wedding ring. The girls who come within the pale
Speaker 1: of this letter see Phyllis, Prudence, Pearl, Penelope, Pauline, Philippa, Phoebe,
Speaker 1: or Priscilla will be petite and pretty and will have
Speaker 1: perfect poise, while the men will be polite and polished,
Speaker 1: great posers and poker players, but pliable in the hands
Speaker 1: of woman. Passion, the father of tenderness, Purity, the mother
Speaker 1: of tenderness. Unconscious modesty see modesty past, something to be forgotten,
Speaker 1: Patience the tip time gives to the waiter, Pity, Love's
Speaker 1: half brother, pleasure, true Love's shadow. Prudence said, Love, how
Speaker 1: strange we never met before, but now we've met. I
Speaker 1: hope we'll meet no more q Q. As shown by
Speaker 1: this ancient bit of sculptor, in its original hieroglyphic form,
Speaker 1: represented a lover's quarrel and from the cast of features,
Speaker 1: presumably an amorite. This proves it of very ancient origin,
Speaker 1: as in the early times the Amorites were the dominant
Speaker 1: race of Syria and Canaan, which are named on the
Speaker 1: oldest Babylonian monuments the land of the Amorites see Map
Speaker 1: of Amuria. There are plenty of Amorites in the world
Speaker 1: to day, but they show not the slightest desire to congregate,
Speaker 1: but quite to the contrary, can be found wandering off
Speaker 1: in pairs at the slightest pretext such words as a 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: Harim to see that they did not indulge too freely
Speaker 1: in sweetmeats. Some wit of the day twisted Rabsaries into
Speaker 1: Rabari in Assyrian to stretch to rubber, and so a
Speaker 1: new symbol in 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 sects of reckless and roving
Speaker 1: disposition religion. In the religion of love, the Cortazan is
Speaker 1: a heretic, but the nun is an atheist. Richard Garnet ribbon,
Speaker 1: a rope in disguise, Rice, the confetti of matrimony, ring
Speaker 1: symbol 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 is stirring to rustle
Speaker 1: the 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: great 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, skid. Do see note
Speaker 1: that night it rained, Oh how it rained. Because this
Speaker 1: symbol sea cut, pronounced s like the hiss of a serpent,
Speaker 1: can be traced back to the day the Adams moved,
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 rest. 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 sensitiveness,
Speaker 1: A symptom sentiment, bedeker to the land of love tells
Speaker 1: you what to admire, sigh, the rustle of a caged
Speaker 1: cupid's wings. Silence, If silence gives consent? How is it
Speaker 1: women marry sin? A matter of opinion what other people do?
Speaker 1: 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: t and Adam's autobiography. We find, toward the end of
Speaker 1: the sojourn in the garden this symbol sea cut on
Speaker 1: this page, often used, and always in this sense, and
Speaker 1: being an hungered we went to the t 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 epic 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. On 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 U 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 mother. 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 verbina and versed in every art to make
Speaker 1: the male heart vib break violently. The men will be
Speaker 1: vigorous about a visionary and inclined to be fond of
Speaker 1: the vine vanity. Everything variety is the spice of love.
Speaker 1: Victim bridegroom w W comes from the very sacred and
Speaker 1: beautiful symbol of wedlock. One cannot realize unless quite familiar
Speaker 1: with these ancient peoples with what reverence they held this symbol.
Speaker 1: What poetry and romance surged through the mind of him
Speaker 1: who gazed upon it, What fluttering of heart, what dizziness. Yes,
Speaker 1: the ancious loved marriage. They adored it. Some of them
Speaker 1: were so devoted to it that they did it over
Speaker 1: and over again, Solomon, for instance. At times the rush
Speaker 1: was so great that the clerks in the office of
Speaker 1: record would get behind in their work, and in their haste,
Speaker 1: would neglect to make the whole in the wedding ring,
Speaker 1: showing the bridegroom's hand so in the symbol, and giving
Speaker 1: the opportunity for someone to advance the theory that this
Speaker 1: symbol did not mean marriage, but represented the doctor offering
Speaker 1: a pill to his patient, meaning sickness. This is absurd.
Speaker 1: W Girls will be wholesome, winning and wise, and will
Speaker 1: be most happy when wedded to men of wealth waste,
Speaker 1: the equator of heaven webb Annette an entanglement, doubtless from
Speaker 1: the German vibe woman, wedding a necessary formality before securing
Speaker 1: a divorce. Widow the most dangerous variety of unmarried female wife,
Speaker 1: a darning attachment for the domestic machine. Woman. The last
Speaker 1: but not the least of all created things. An afterthought
Speaker 1: x X comes from Cupid's own mark used by him
Speaker 1: in the day before writing was invented, and everybody had
Speaker 1: his own or her own peculiar mark to sign checks,
Speaker 1: I owe yous and love letters. We are indebted to
Speaker 1: the British Museum for allowing us access to their treasure chambers.
Speaker 1: There we find this mark on many dainty bill adieu,
Speaker 1: left upon Psyche's dressing table by Cupid, the symbol for
Speaker 1: many centuries of true love, and many variations of it
Speaker 1: were used, such as I am overjoyed, I have the
Speaker 1: blues fly with me, meet me, meet me by moonlight.
Speaker 1: Let us be married. I love you not. Do you
Speaker 1: think you can support a wife? I will come tonight,
Speaker 1: I leave town tomorrow, come back. I love you. Ex
Speaker 1: Girls are usually thought of with great tenderness by a man,
Speaker 1: but they are sometimes a considerable annoyance, as for example,
Speaker 1: xanthrope 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 archeologist 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 ruler's stone
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 Amur, a very similar figure is
Speaker 1: used in later symbolic writings, supposed to represent zeuxis kneeling
Speaker 1: before one of his own paintings and stood for egotism
Speaker 1: and conceit. We also have the same form use so
Speaker 1: symbolizing The Path of True Love originally written end of
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