The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady

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PRELIMINARY INFORMATION

THE ARCADIAN LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

HEARD IN ARCADY

CUPID'S SALE

CUPID'S BILL

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THE LOVER’S BAEDEKER

AND

GUIDE TO ARCADY

 

 

BY

CAROLYN WELLS

 

WITH TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS AND A COVER

BY A. D. BLASHFIELD AND MAPS BY

GEORGE W. HOOD

NEW YORK

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

PUBLISHERS


Copyright, 1912, by

Frederick A. Stokes Company

 


 

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign

languages, including the Scandinavian

THE•PLIMPTON•PRESS

[W•D•O]

NORWOOD•MASS•U•S•A


THIS GUIDE BOOK

IS DEDICATED

TO ANNA WAITT

A TOURIST


CONTENTS

Arcady and Its Environs: Page
       Preliminary Information 1
   
Topography 4
   
Routes 4
   
Roads Out of Arcady 8
   
Season 11
   
Climate 11
   
Time 11
    Time’s Valentine 15
   
Calendar 19
    The Lay of Lothario Lee 21
   
Money 24
   
Custom House 24
    Cupid’s Failure 28
   
History 29  
    An Arcady Girl 31
    Under a New Charter 32
   
Arcadia 34  
    An Arcadian Lady 38
   
Arcady:    
       Preliminary Ramble 39
   
Flora 41
   
The Arcadian Language of Flowers 43
   
Hotels 44
   
Restaurants 45
   
Sweet Shops 46
    Heard in Arcady 47
    Dithyramb by an Arcadian Poet 49
   
Conveyances 50
   
Shops 54  
    Cupid’s Sale 55
    Cupid’s Bill 57
   
Institutions and Public Buildings:  
       Places of Interest 58
       Post-Office 58
       The Heart Exchange 61
    The Intercepted Valentine 62
       Banks 62
       The Hospital 62
       The Weather Bureau 65
       The Campo Santo 65
       The Hall of Fame 66
    Ballade of Arcady 67
   
Amusements 68
    The Old Story 75
   
Language 75
   
Some Arcadian Bromidioms 76
   
Exercise for the Language Student:    
       A Very Pretty Quarrel 77
       Degrees of Love 79
       Definitions 79
       The Spelling Lesson 79
    Love in Arcady 80
    Insensibility 81
    Biographical Sketch of Cupid 82
   
Political Notes 84
   
Arcadian Laws 84
   
Costumes 85
    Then and Now 86
   
Walks 87
    Old Valentines 91
   
Business Section 93
   
It Happened in Arcady 94
   
Calamitous Catastrophe 101
   
Advertisements 103
    Advertisement 113

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

   
The Post Office is in the heart of an old hollow oak tree Frontispiece
   
Facing page
Arcadia (Map) 3
   
Across the Sea of Dreams in a Transport of Rapture 5
   
The troubled waters of the Gulf of Woe 7
   
Mountains of Opposition 8
   
A radiant Goddess beckoning to him 9
   
Many with a greed for lucre will follow the 10
     Goddess of Fortune
   
’Tis love that makes the world go round 12
   
The old clock on the stairs 13
   
Sun dials and moon dials are approved as they mark the 17
     bright hours only
   
Custom House 25
   
Arcady and its Environs (Map) 35
   
On the water all sorts of boats are used 51
   
Cupid’s Heartware Shop 53
   
The groves and dells are decorated with beautiful statues 59
   
Weather Bureau 63
   
The Mayday Plaisance is a large amusement 69
   
A Serenader 73
   
True lovers’ knots may be bought here 89
   
The blissfully enraptured are conducted to sentimental spots 107
   
Love proof window screens 114
   
Map of the Town of Arcadia End-leaves

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