POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 10

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Two nights ago Mr. Coates expressed surprise and pleasure at having got out of Lyttelton alive. However, Labour] made a good "killing" yesterday.

We are given fo understand that thai Independent Labour candidate for tho Lyttclton seat has decided not to press for a recount.

If, in spite of an enormous rleficit( Japan's dictators go on with that, pro* posed huge military and naval expends ture, they mil have half the country uji in alms—a dol(e)orous prospect. ' • • «'.-■■■■ YOUTH HAS ITS FLING. Dear Mr. Flage, . : : "Arthur Momcter"-is anxious .t»" know what explanation he should giv» next .time he takes a night out. He is well answered in the name of a firm I recently saw in another--or may be the same—small village: Boys ans Young. ■ " E.M.8.- ---« .• « ■ . IF N.R.A. SHOULD FAIL. Reputedly authentic news story from behind the scenes at Washington. Eoosevelt discussing N.R.A.'s prospects with intimates. "Should the Blu»! Eagle not get across," said one man to Roosevelt, "you will be a terribly; unpopular President." After a pauss Roosevelt, replied: "No. I would be! the last President." : BELIEVE IT OK NOT. We have met some queer fish among men, but never yet have we encountered a human antennarius, and foi* why? Because the antennarius is a fislt with an imitation worm on its fore-* head, which *,t wiggles to entice other; fish, which it then eats. It is a piscatorial cannibal, devouring relatives toe, preference. This oddity was capture^ by William Becbe, .the famous sub-i marine explorer, and the specimen i* all tanked up in. the New York aquarium. " , ♦ .*.. ' ft. ~ '-: BAM! Here- will we sit and let the sounW of music. ~■'.'■ Creep.in our ears; ' ' ■ —Shakespeare. Damn cats! . That's Plat! . . I've love for Spring, The growing thing, . , . , And all that; . . For moonlight, . Life's streanij. The starry night, • Love's dream; • But for cats— BRICKBATS!! ' ' / KAPPA. ' ■» * it FINGERLESS PIANIST. Ziinmy, probably the world's chanw pion legless swimmer, has a match ia a young man, Arthur Williamson, rci cently awarded a three-year scholar-* ship at the University of Pennsylvania, where -ho will study for the Mus. Eac. degree. Less than four years ago the* scholarship winner had all eight fingers and.a thumb amputated down to-the; second joint, only Ms left thumb remaining intact. Nevertheless, triumphs ing over such extraordinary . disabilities, Williamson taught himself the piano, and it was a recital he gavoj early this year, including numbers Te«l pleto with arpeggios, trills,, and chords ranging as high as the sixtu interval in each' hand, which resulted in the scholarship award. Williamson lost his fingers as the outcome of a "holdup." With the temperature below; zero one night in January, 1930, he was attacked by three thugs, who beak him,-stole his clothing, and left him by: tho roadside. A month later, hi» fingers, frostbitten beyond saving, wer« amputated. "';■"■"■• ' '