irer.

_Courts_

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The Spring Courts will be continued on into the summer, maybe longer. As
heretofore, cases having been appealed and receiving a satisfactory
decision from the Supreme Court should also receive the sanction of the
church.

_Cupid's Legal Holidays_

Cupid's Birthday, January 1: St. Valentine's: The First Day of Spring:
Midsummer Day: Proposal Day, September 17: Followed by Mourner's Morn (a
half-hearted holiday) for the other fellow, September 18: Hallowe'en.

_Every Student of Hearticulture is allowed three Legal Holidays to be
their very own._

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Artists' Note

_To the lovers of Beauty no branch of science offers such varied
delights as that of Hearticulture; at the same time no pursuit is so
full of disappointments for the inexperienced and pitfalls for the
unwary. It is the study of a lifetime; no one can say he is a master of
Hearticulture. Many of the most successful gardeners give it up as they
become older: some from disappointment over a trifling failure, others
from sheer weariness; still more take up a branch of nursery-gardening
called Matrimony, which demands such close attention and care that it
has come to be regarded as a profession in itself._

_It has even been asserted that Matrimony is no branch of Hearticulture
at all--a statement so far from the truth that it can only come from a
disappointed or unsuccessful Heart Gardener. Be warned, dear reader; if
you should take up this highest and most beautiful of all the branches
of Hearticulture with such an erroneous idea, you are foredoomed to
failure._

_If this little book be the means of showing to even the least of these
the error of his ways, we shall not feel that it has been made in vain._

[Illustration: Oliver Herford] [Illustration: John Cecil Clay]

ENGAGEMENTS

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_Master Cupid he made a plan
For a garden of Hearts on the first of_ JAN

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HEARTICULTURE

January

One cannot begin too early, and January is the time for looking over the
ground and planning the arrangement of the Heart Garden.

Outside of the Hothouse few flowers are to be seen in January. The most
noticeable of these is the Common Turnleaf or Resolution Plant, a sort
of Neverlasting Flower. The Turnleaf abounds during the early days of
January, but disa