The Arcadian shops offer delightful wares to a doting Lover. Flower-markets and candy-shops show tempting display windows, and book-stalls can supply presentation editions of all the love-lore ever written from Sappho to the present day. The jewel-shops are marvels of splendor, and the Arcady arcades and bazaars show love-tokens and souvenirs of all sorts. An interesting place to visit is Dan Cupid’s Heartware shop, where charms, love-philters, and true-love knots are for sale. There is also a repairing department, where broken hearts are mended and made as good as new. Here hearts may be repaired while you wait. CUPID’S SALE Amid their annual display Of roses, doves, and darts, Cupid and Co. announce today A Bargain Sale of Hearts. Ho, luckless suitor lachrymose, Ho, lacklove lovelorn swain, Gallants rejected and morose, Hearts you may here obtain. Rare specimens that must be sold, One that is pure and true; One, an antique, exceeding old, But quite as good as new. And as we know there’ll be a crowd Before the day is done, No single buyer is allowed To purchase more than one. A man might find ’mong broken hearts A fitting mate for his; Dan Cupid mends with skilful arts And sells them cheap “as is.” Then as you take your walks abroad, Ho, all ye lovers, stop! And view these bargains which we laud At Cupid’s Heartware Shop. The gloveshop is a popular emporium, for gloves are so often given or confiscated, for souvenirs, that they must be continually replaced. Mittens, also used as gifts, are for sale here. In the bookshops the best selling titles are “How to Make Love and How to Keep It,” “Sonnets from the Portuguese,” “The Lover’s Lexicon.” CUPID’S BILL One summer day, poor little Cupid Sat sadly poring o’er his slate. “I fear I must be very stupid,” He said, and shook his curly pate. And then he ran away to Venus. “Dear mother, help me! if you will, I’m sure,” he cried, “that we between us Can straighten out Sir Strephon’s bill.” Said Venus, “Just as I expected! You always do make such a fuss With bills!” But soon it was corrected, And the account was rendered thus: Sir Strephon— To Dan Cupid, Dr., To shooting at six maidens’ hearts. To making one blue silken fetter. To half a dozen blunted darts. To seven arrows, lost or broken. To one heart by a blunder hit. To one new bow. To one love-token. Terms cash. No credit. Please remit. “Hasten,” cried Venus, “do not tarry! Today is Strephon’s wedding-day. Unless he settle e’er he marry, Cupid may whistle for his pay.” [Illustration: “THE GROVES AND DELLS ARE DECORATED WITH BEAUTIFUL STATUES”] INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS