The lover's Baedeker and guide to Arcady Author:Carolyn Wells Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Calendar: The Arcadian Calendar is entirely made up of Red-Letter Days. In the Spring the Young Man's Fancy follows the vernal tradition. The Summer is ent... more »irely given over to the Summer Girl's flirtations. In the Autumn a delicious Melancholy is in the air and Arcadians experience A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to wo;' And resembles sorrow only As a Poet resembles a Poe. In Winter come the Halcyon Days, and all are glad and merry and Life is one grand, sweet song and dance. Many Fete Days are observed. Christmas receives due consideration, but St. Valentine's Day and All Hallowe'en are even more widely celebrated in Arcady. April First, or All Fools' Day, is not specially observed, except in Fool's Paradise, where it is April Fools' Day all the year round. Midsummer Eve and the Eve of St. Agnes are dear to Lovers, and as every day is Somebody's Birthday, there are celebrations continually. Mayday, too, is a pleasant occasion, and on that day there are May-parties all over the place, for Arcady is a Land where it is always Saturday Afternoon. THE LAY OF LOTHARIO LEE LOTHARIO LEE was saddened, the world seemed grim and gray; For Lothario Lee was a lover bold, and today was St. Valentine's Day. 'Twas St. Valentine's Day, and he fain would send his heart to the fair Florelle, For the radiant maid had inspired in his breast a passion he could not quell. But alas! for the gay Lothario, his heart was held in fee Down at Dan Cupid's pawnshop, at the sign of the roses three. Willingly would the lovelorn knight that errant heart reclaim, But alas! the luckless Lothario hadn't a cent to his name. So he sadly sat and pondered, as doleful as he could be; When a brilliant notion struck him — "Done!" cried Loth...« less