POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGI

Tor Sale, Wicker Baby's Push • Pram, little used. Apply . This is probably the offspring of that cane invalid's chair with movable back wo saw advertised last week. • • ♦ "Jumbo," cable address Masterton, forwards this clipping "with much jjoy," and tho postscript that follows, A Ihree-ycar-old negro boy who smokes cigars and cigarettes has been discovered by health authorities at Port Scott (Kansas). Tho child's habit came to the atteniion,,of Dr. Brown, the Secretary of tK'e State Board of Health. The mother disclosed that tho boy had been smoking ever since he was . able to walk. She said that on, tho morning of the doctor's visit tho child, who recently recovered from typhoid fever, had "fussed around" until his father gave hint a, cigar. "In these hard times, when farmers have to draw money out of their banks, this sort of thing lets a ray of sunshine into life. Not even tha versatile. ,'L.D.A.' could improve -oa such a yarn." ' ■"' * * • Inveighing against internal combustion pests, a correspondent in Saturday's "Post" wrote, in part:— " .'. . There is no doubt about the wearing effect upon the public health of noisy machines and noisy people using them wrecking tho peace at night in residential areas in city and suburbs. Is there no effective remedy?" There is. Prohibit sensitive citizens from living in residential areas. #■..■» ♦ ' "Wily Willy" writes apropos of those Tokio motor regulations which appeared in this clumn the other day: "That reminds me. A New Zealand friend of mine in Germany "was helping to keep himself in. sausage and beer by teaching English to a certain Hans. After a series of lessons, the pair parted, because the New Zealandcr wanted to'do a little holiday travelling. _ Returning, he encountered his pupil and inquired as to how lie was getting on with his English. 'Ah/ replied Hans. 'I speaks .him already-better yet now dan I did him/two months since.'"

OUB SEVEN WONDERS. One batch - only to-day—from "Belinda of Berhampore." It include* sorno -wonders that never will cease. (1) Our Professor Murphy—with those letters after his name. (2) Our Petone foreshore,'when the butchers are at work. Our Sunday - morning tram service. (4) Our woe-bogone waratah in the Botanic Gardens. (5) Our aesthetic Thorndon reclamation. (6) Our worthy Mayor and all his works. (7) Our collection of "statues" in the Parliamentary grounds. . • *# ' * Joey Thomas, a thin bundle of whipcord and gameness, surprised * the cognoscenti (and h,is opponent) lagt night at1 the Stadium. That preliminary, gallop of his must have sharpened him up no end. He had the laugh on us, too. Well, good luck to him.' "When Joey Thomas put them up against that '"'try-out," Archie Hughes, The blase ring-side experts said among themselves, "Oh, what's the usel" When he was matched with Borjbia Blay, it made them feel a trifle sad , To think of what was coming to * likeable and modest lad. If we had been the man in charge, when yesternight the laddies clash- . eel, We say it with some diffidence: our reputation would have crashed. If that implies that Joe enjoyed a . smile or two from old man. Luck, There is no need to be, annoyed, he gets full marks for fighting pluck. He got * larruping, but always eanul ' back scrapping foot by foot, And all that Bobbie handed him eouW not compel him to stay put. The way he .took those uppercuts, and: body drives and snappy hooks Reveals that Joe is far away mor» tough and solid thaii he looks. It was for him a long hard grind, tmt to the end he crowded in, And when the verdict went his way; the bleachers xaised a joyful din. Which shofrvas we must all agree, th* bleachers' noble heart is rightt It loves to see the under-dog eoms topmost in a doubtful fight." # ♦ • Whether the dopoliticalisation of oar railways ever comes to anything i«mairis to be seen, but here's a tme i story which is not without relevance. ! Years ago, when that good fellow and good Minister, the late' Hon. W. H. Herries, was in charge of Bailwaygy '. and the imported expert, Mr. Hiley,. wag manager, the political and the .) administrative head were on. tour down, j South. It had beon a crowded day,! for the pair. Deputation, after derm- i tation, asking for a loading siding, ntw j sleepers on a bridge, another train a. day to Waipukapuka, or more sheep trucks for somewhere else, had attacked them, but the end was in sight.... liquid and food comforts at .the town-' ship hotel. But the travellers were not to escape quite so easily as that. ' An unexpected deputation blew in on them from' the Southland tussocks, Hiley was tired and indignant; Herries, the old campaigner, resigned himself to the inevitable. It really doesn't ' matter what happened so far ai the ■ local representations were concerned, but listen to the irritable manager before these representations were j made: "I wonder what in the h— - —' they want now! It wouldn't surprise' me if it is a request to have the anteroom of the goods shed attached to the atationmaster's office." But he didn't say ante-room. *■•■*. ♦ The Persians have appropriate aatf poetical names for their flowers—many) of which (the flowers) are ours also. Hero are an interesting few culled from a current periodical. CALENDULA. -Hamscha-bahai (always Spring)—with reference to iM. continuous flowering. j PEONY V Gul-i-sad tuaian (flower ofl | s. hundred petals). LILY OP THE VALLEY. MurvarNl (pearls). j COLUMBINE, Taj-i-Muluk (<rowa j of Icings)—from tho shape of thai flower. ' IBIS. . Ilchi (envoy)—one of tho I first flowors to appear. '. ' CROCUS. Gul-i-hasrat (flower <jf x+*i jjret)—for an atittrma^erocM,«n*.<ittfiijjj