POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 38, 13 August 1932, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

"After those revoiationa .last ev->»-ing," writes -''Bibilin' Hot," "I-vtj come to the conclusion that the southerly, too, is trying to freeze out our City; Organist." * * * . Another possibly significant dark spot in the news. Up Wanganui way; a cluck is alarming the superstitious by laying black eggs. ■ * *' . * . - . . MONEY IS CHEAP, BUT -. Commenting on that Empire financial statement, an inspired observer ex» plains that there is no need for radical action because "money is cheap." It may be, but much of what it has t» buy is still too dear for many people.. •*■ ' *' ■ * ■;:-■- ---QUOTH THE RAVEN, "NEVEBMOBE"! On the wall of a local storekeeper's premises hangs a card bearing the foli lowing legend: ■ My friend did come, And I did trust him, '•"" < I lost my friend, And lost hia ensVom; - To lose my friend : It grieved me sore, ...•-. So I resolved ..-■"' To trust no.more. * ft* WELCOME, OLD-TIMER I Dear Percy Flage,—Hay au. oldtimer be permitted to stage a comeback? I fear that I am'rather late, which may, perhaps, be excused pa th« count of distance. A glance at my address will no doubt explain also the reason for my long silence. Eegarding the laddie on the burning deck, I am, inclined to imagine that this is what! he said:— . ■ . Hoots, laddie, standin' on this dee£ "."■ Believe me Am no' freezin'; X A diiina like,to stay, by beck,- '; .: • But A've a quite quid reason. ' ' A've lost a sax-pence roon aboot, : And dashed if A can find it, ' ■ •■ ' So if A eanna get it pot \ .5 Am stoppin' here to mind it. ' ■-■ Your long lost ' ? PEBCYVEBE Waipukurau. ■ ' ': ) (Formerly of Desolation Manor). ; :■•■■'■*"» - f SCHOOL'S IN.' I Did you know that . ; (1) A beautiful Madagascar boa that j' sports a glass eye is a prize, exhibit ia ' the London Zoo as the result of a' but« ' gieal operation? ; (2) One of the show places in Poland; is the' Count Potocki's mansion at'ljitt*'". zutt? The coach drives into the main hall, there are 365 rooms, - and twd( square'miles of glass in the hothouses^.. (3) At no time in this country's hia* tory could you buy more with th« pound note you don't possess than, now? "" (4) That the smallest recorded earn< ings of a play are £.1 la 6d? The playj was "A Good Time," and was produced by such ■well-known persons a$ Geo. E. Sims, Ivan Caryll, and Captaii* Basil Hood. " ,:■.;' 1 (5) A bakery with electric ovens ancl capable/of serving the ; entire :popnla*.< tion of the Papal State ;■ has "been, iai stalled in the Vatican City,?; :.-; . .< ; (6) "We are Credibly; informed thaS" one of the Soviet's latest br,ain-wavea is to dose poor.silly sheep with;mineral salts to make them drop their fleece^ four times a year without shearing? : (7) To revert to the Smiths (see lasrfe Saturday's Postscripts)—last Census ' returns (1930) reveal that there ar»' 1,500,000 of that name in the U.S.A.? -' (8) We have some evidence that silence can be golden? The "Birth' oS ' a Nation" •. (silent film) drew: £2,000,000; the record talkie, "The Singing Fool," has only drawn haiC that amount. ' (9) It took Moses and the Children 6£ ; Israel 40 years to get from Upper Egypt to' the Promised Land, but iff ■ Moses were in Jerusalem to-day hai would be able to slip I down to Cairo for a week-end per car? ;• (10) One of the quaint perquisites'o£ Queen Mary is that she is entitled td , the tail of every whale captured off ;tW' British coast?' ' ;' ,> * * .■■'■; ONLY A SMALL EGG, BUT— : From Ottawa: "The British reprev sentatives are convinced that the p?e* sent agreed statement will have an'■■im« mense psychological effect." : Oh, they put their heads together ii* • the good old Conference way •; < To uplift us from the" nether darkness! .to .the light of day—" And particularly^ my-brothers, bent, oi; broke, or badly bitten, ; To disperse the murk that smothers all the paths of Greater Britain.' Day by day they sat in, cheerful, all tlia pan-Brittanie nations, Day by day we got an earful of en* heartening explanations, But—if that egg they have hatched oufi , is not quite what you expect; ; Don't forget it Has a certain psycho* logical effect. ! How we lapped the news, ingenuous, as it daily tumbled through, Of discussions friendly, strenuous, and prospective gains in view, '' -- Of an economic Empire with its hair; all nicely curled And its products prices higher, beaming on an envious world, While from Capetown to Australia, from Vancouver to Port Chalmers, The ecstatic Saturnalia leaped the wool kings and the farmers, > But —if you are disappointed with re* suits please recollect .-*.,; Though the egg looks small, 'twill hava a psychological efEect. There was endless talk of quotas—bee? and mutton, wheat and wool, As prosperity promoters for the chil« dren of John Bnll, ' Also many a bright suggestion fo t r re* form in currency That would add, beyond'all question, to Imperial Unity, And they huddled still more closely intoi fiscal exploration . , While the world prepared morosely for the. fateful revelation. ' It has come —and so far, all that we are able to detect Is a wee egg loaded with a psychological effect. MORE COURT SEWS. About forty-five years ago—being then a member of the 6s 8d brigade—l was engaged in a trivial criminal case tried at a place called Whitby in the NorVl of England; the prisoner was tiir • charged after a jury had taken close i i four hours to consider their vcrdiA which should have taken about i«n seconds. His Honour could not understand the length of time taken, and, it being the last case, was anxious to get 'away. Consequently he sent an usher to ask the foreman if.any point had not been made clear. However, the twelve gentlemen duly appeared, with the above result.. It was then discovered that a regatta was being held — the jiwy room facing the ocean* —and the good and true boys were enjoying the afternoon's sport. "THE WINDOWS WEEK FEOSTED NEXT DAY. ACTOIS- G. -