THE ARCADIAN LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

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Asters—I am very wealthy.

Stock—I have been successful in Wall Street.

Phlox—I shear lambs.

Rubber Plant—I love to look at you.

Daisy—You’re it.

Burr—I’m stuck on you.

Oyster Plant—Will you dine with me?

Mint—Do you live in Philadelphia?

Anise—Cordially yours.

Cosmos—You’re all the world to me.

Marigold—I mean business.

Poppy—May I speak to your father?

Orchids—I am extravagant.

Palm—Will you accept my hand?

Tuberoses—May you die soon.

Bluebell—I will telephone you.

Mock Orange Blossoms—I am only flirting with you.

Moon Flowers—I’m just crazy about you.

Box—Will you go to the opera with me?

HOTELS

The hotels in Arcady are excellent, with large and well-kept gardens, rose-embowered lawns, ivy-hung turrets, and all requirements of Romance.

In the interior of the town is Halcyon Hall, owned by the Lovemore Company. This is a new and sumptuous hotel, fitted up with a careful attention to detail, which combines eighteenth-century romance with nineteenth-century convenience. Among its advantages over the older hostelries are:

An Express Elevator to the Seventh Heaven, and a Dream Interpreter Call and United States Valentine Chute on every floor. It is also lighted by an Automatic Electric Moon.

Other important hotels are Orchid Court, Honeymoon Hall, and Violet Villa.

The Grand Union is an old and well-known hotel for married lovers. Less pretentious hostelries are the bijou Villa Beaubelle, Starlight Cottage, and Cupid’s Court.

There are many Inns, both quaint and interesting. Their swinging sign-boards announce such appropriate appellations as “Arms and the Man,” “The Moon and I,” or “The World is Mine.”

The St. Valentine Apartment House, situated on Good Times Square, is a residential building of the first class.


Restaurants: These institutions are not specially popular in Arcady, as the inhabitants rarely have large appetites. Indeed, waiters often set artificial viands before their patrons, and the difference is not observed.

Guests are always overcharged, as the true Lover has no thought of what he is paying and settles any bill without a murmur.

A very popular table d’hÔte service consists of Bread and Cheese and Kisses, and the partakers thereof drink to each other only with their eyes and leave a kiss in the cup, so that wine is never asked for.


Sweet Shops: These shops are well patronized and their wares include nectar, honey, angel-cakes, taffy, kisses, and sweets of all sorts. Orders are filled also for wedding-cakes, and very soft drinks are served in loving-cups.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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