Butterflies 64

LIX Boomerang 65

LX Advice 66

LXI Pastel 67

LXII Imitations 68

LXIII The Coquette 69

LXIV Moonlight 70

LXV The Eternal Masculine 71

LXVI Satire 72

LXVII Glory 73

LXVIII Romance 74

LXIX The Spider and the Fly 75

LXX Veritas 76

LXXI The Reformer 78

LXXII Fatalism 79

LXXIII Technique 80

LXXIV Finis 81

I

THE ATHEIST

"I worship no one," cried the atheist. "Divinities are senseless,
useless, barriers to progress and ambition, a curse to man. Gods,
fetiches, graven images, idols--faugh!"

On the atheist's work-table stood the photograph of a beautiful girl.

II

ALLIES

The Devil, finishing his seidel of Wuerzburger, eyed the young man
quizzically.

"What would you of me?" he said.

"I would ask," bade the young man, "how one may know the women who serve
you as allies?"

"Find those who smile at themselves in their mirrors," said the Devil.

III

VIEWPOINT

In a rapidly ascending balloon were two men.

One watched the earth getting farther and farther away.

One watched the stars getting nearer and nearer.

IV

THE MISTAKE

He was the happiest man in the world, and the most successful in all
things. In his eyes was ever a smile; on his lips ever a song.

For the gods had made an awful mistake when they bore him into the
world. They had placed his heart in his head, where his brain should
have been, and his brain in his bosom, where his heart should have
been.

V

TEMPORA MUTANTUR

They couldn't understand why he married her, but the ironic little gods
who have such matters in hand knew it was because she had a little way
of swallowing before speaking, because she had a little way, when she
came to him and saw him standing there with arms open to clasp her t