Nat Goodwin, it is true, never married Lillian Russell, but the universe felt that something had gone amiss. So says an American journalist—one of the kind who knows everything. He continues: Destiny had fallen down. How then should Mary Pickford and Douglas fail to swing into the orbit calculated from the beginning? If she is not queen of her particular Sheba, Sheba never had a queen. If he is not the gayest of Solomons, at least he has written a book, and unquestionably he rules his jovial dominion in his own right. In this wedding the royal line crosses. It is as expected and as gratifying as the conclusion of a feature film. Obstacles have kept the prince and princess apart, but obstacles do not last forever. After the conflict there must be peace, and before the final curtain there must be a happy ending. How evil are those dispositions which interpret this amalgamation of splendours in economic terms; which hint that the joint revenue of the pair—to judge by figures made elaborately public—will be three times what he earned before; which calculate that his income will actually pay her income tax. * * * * * Beneath her feet a trace of sleet, Alas, she seemed to slip, She tried to stop, she fell kerflop, We heard a startling rip. A saint might cuss and make a fuss, By righteous anger stirred, But oh, to think, a maiden pink Would use that awful word. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _=French Convict Curse=_ _Rev. “Golightly” has favored_ THE WHIZ BANG _with another able article for the September issue. It is a story on the practice of witchcraft, with its revolting rites, throughout the West Indies and the three Guianas. The story holds the reader’s attention from start to finish and gives an exposé that would put the ouija board and clairvoyant mysticisms to shame. Get the September number and read Morrill’s story of the human hyena which kidnaps children, the goat without horns, and the “loupgarou.”_—THE EDITOR. =BY REV. “GOLIGHTLY” MORRILL.= Pastor of People’s Church, Minneapolis, Minn.