“THE POST-OFFICE IS IN THE HEART OF AN OLD HOLLOW OAK TREE”

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]

THE LOVER’S BAEDEKER AND

GUIDE TO ARCADY