POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 129, 3 June 1933, Page 10

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment BY PERCY FLAGE Adverting to the Willis-Lang dogfight in Bulli: -whenever these Labour paladins fall out one of them is sure to fall in. . * .«■ * Talking of cultural influences. An American publicist says that the U.S. "owes a great deal to Britain." That may well be, but what Britain fives' to America doesn't bear thinking about. * «■ »■ ■ ' All" that Mr. Poison wants in addition to the inflated exchange is a de« flation of the secondary industries out of existence: Tho pull-together spirit. , * '*..■"* That circus publicity agent who engineered the photographing of J. P. Morgan posed with a woman midget cer* tainly lent a touch of verisimilitude ..to tin otherwise unconvincing pantomime. « * » AND WENT FURTHER. A bank note collector, a Londoner, has iv his possession one which ho claims to be of the period of Kubla Khan. It was printed on mulberry; silk paper' 700 years ago, which goes to show that in tho good old days money lasted longer than it does now. * ' it « WRONGFELLOW. On tho authority of one of our dailies: i "Full many'a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air," wrote Longfellow. On one of his Gray days, of course* L.E.G. * »■■■'•■. VICTORIA' WAS ANTI-SEMITIC. ■It may be news to most of our client! that there was a good deal of Hitler in the late good Queen Victoria. jDesplta strong pressure from Gladstone, tho '.'widow of Windsor" steadfastly refused to bestow a peerage' on -one of th» Rothschilds, then in the British Parliament, because he was % Jew. * ♦. ♦ ' ■ TALKING OP WETAS. Dear Perceiving Friend, — Please permit nte to submit a "claws" concerning our little bush cobber, about whom some assert that when he starts to croon, "Show me the Weta go home," he immediately throws himself into reverse gear. Don't know whether he ever migrate! to Australia, but the following lines regarding a second cousin of his ara. "burrowed" from a. Sydney, publics tion. An earwig sat on a mulberry leaf, When it began to rain, As it washed him off he was heard to) say,"Earwig go again." » • . ■ ' ABERDEEN. * * ■••'■■■■-' ILL-FITTING RESPONSIBILITY. Dear Flage,— Do you know the latest? The relief workers in the country are, to be fitted with, their relief footgear by the; poor hard-worked postmasters^ Presumably that jack-of-all-trades will also have to supervise ithe fitting of. the boots for the relief workers' wives and. children. What are our post offices coming to? Certainly, a postmaster after his training of recent years-should not be stuck for. a-job when he retires on "super";'he should be able to turn Ms hand to anything. Imagine th« scenes'at a country post office when tn» boot issue is.in Rrogress, and bUrsi into tears—or rhyme. WATTALYFE; -, Dannevirkc. * '*-■-■ *■ ' SCHOOL'S IN. Do you know that (1) Sir Austen Chamberlain is now in his 41st year of continuous, membership of the House of Commons? (2) Police estimate that there are* 45^000 bicycles fn use in Berlin-^ne for every ninth inhabitant of the cityf (3) 1,085,000,000 dollars, in motor vehicle taxes was collected oy Federal, State, and local Governments-in U.b.A. last year? (4) It is true, as a naturalist says, that worms make a noise that sounds like speech? We've heard some of tho neverttuni'variety at it. (5) Down Singapore way a reasonable] fee-, for murdering rogue elephants uj £50 or £60 a head? ' ', (6) Conservative estimates bused oa many facts set the minimum strength of-the Japanese war army at 1,500,000* (7) According to the "British Clock Manufacturer," there are on an average 4,500,000 clocks sold in the TJ.K* every year?. ; (8) Herr Masson, a Bavarian* has succeeded in copying out anbvel by] Goethe containing 40,000 words on. an, ordinary postcard? . . (9) When the Countess of Oxford (Mrs. Asquith) went to live at 10 Downing Street (the official residence of th« Prime Minister) Jin 1908 ? she found there was no bathroom in the house? (10) A man in. Warsaw has left £408 to the nurse who "gave me a cigaretfij during my illness"* ! . « »■ ■'" ' * /'" MANY HAPPY, BETUBNS. His Majesty . Is 68 ■:■"■■ ... Today, and we ■ ■' Congratulate ■ Him that;.he still Controls the reins, •', . ' Through good or ill, . ,O'er his domains. . He works for us • . , As in him lies, And doesn't fuss Or advertise, . • But day by day, Unfaltering, ■ He takes his way—' 'A man, and King, ... . Gentle, apart, Who long has known Au.Einpii'e's heart - As his sure- throne- ( , And shield. And so, Whore Britons are, Warm thoughts will go 'Prom near and far, From those who stand On the world's rim. To .strengthen and , ' Encompass him. ' • • «■ ♦ GLOOMS OP YEARS AGO. Dear Flage,—rThe following appeared in an English paper:— Queen Adelaide.—l have' only on» desire—to play the part of Mario Antoinette with bravery in. the revolution that is coming in England. , Duke of Wellington.—l thank God I shall bo spared from seeing the consummation of the ruin that is,, gathering about us. Lord Shaftesbury, in 1848.—Nothing can now save the_. British Empire from, shipwreck* "* \ Wilberforce.—l dare not marry; the future is so dark and unsettled. Wm. Pitt.—There is scarcely any . thing around us but ruin and despair. Tlio above recall to 1116 that trito saying," "When,down in tho mouth, remember Jonah; ho cams out all tight.**