POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and. Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

"J.E."—Yesterday- we ■• saw- - a- dog | chasing a cat, and it was so" hoi'thev; both walked. Pu Vi has been duly installed th« "Son of Heaven," but he -will'continue to take his orders from TokYo as'usual." Another "sport" from the cours.. Elderly -woman to a Kent Bench: Er. language, my dears,', would have niaile a sergeant-major swoon.: "' ■."'*. • '. . - * . ' - '»■■'' -■'■■■■■ Mr. MeGovern: "To hell -with .yout [the Speaker'sJ . order, ypu" are all attempting to -govern the" House."" :And • he to McGovern it—a: different."matte:r altogether.. .-... .-.V. ■-'•'.■-.. - -■ . '■ & ' .:-«■.';..' ■-.:.. ■ NOT ACCORDINgJTQ: iNESFIELD.""' Dear Sii-;--,":Buttiug. in" 'on -/thatchallenge by ,"Ossy, IJ-Petgne; I- beg permission to offer ;the*f allowing:-' i: ■■ r Mary had a little goat;' ;.iv' i. Itexuded-a peculiar 's&eni, "^ -''' "And.every where that\Mary?go'd,'- •-•: The goat was sure to:.-\vea'f- .4"'•', " Tours affectedly, ' - V.-: "LAFF OR BTJ&T:'"''/.' RETIRED- ■ - -;]'■ It was ;one of those up-to-the sign-of-the-times retirements of; a comparatively young civil servant—oh a pension of course. Everywhere he was being warned of the dangers of resting and rusting,.;ete., •etc.,-and-'tße:;tiecesO-sity of immediately finding soriething to do.. ■ "Don't-you worry about hie j' said he.. "I've been looking forward to this all -my . life. I,'hav« it-all planned out, and .I'm: sure I'm: going to make a success of:it.";. "Success.of ■what?" said the. friend. •.' TheVanswer eaine like' a. shot- from gun: ''-Loaf--ing!" ■ •,■■: . ■. ■ -. . .-■-,.. •. -.:: '~. ~' '■ "- ■ '■:■■■'■ ■ . ■'-:■■-' ■■.•■■ V....'>'.X*, ■ ■ , -;■ * •.:*■ ■~-.. * .._., ;.-.- ~-■ ; PALATABLE CHESTNUTS; ' By the .thoughtfulness. of a friend, ■ this: yarn, taken"; from.. Alfred".Sutro's' "■ Celebrities;and Simple, Souls,** which rounds.off nicely our snoring, symposium:—... ~ ~ .;..''*. ; f ■■ My cousin, Adolph...Sutfo",. who. (ia America) was.a great man in ;his ;dav- . .-. was a .very .considerate man; :kw.are that he breathed- heavily;.,through,his , nose when he slept—-he wasjrin: ;fact,.a champion snorer-^he always iook three "bedrooms in every, hotels thathe"stayed at, and..slept in the centre .one. \ He was large and heavy, an.d therjj' was an aflventure of his in^Londoft:"that he.delighted to tell of:" AsJ he' 4:"was,'.drivirig down E6gen!t'street.*oaie"day in^a fourwheeler, the bottom of the" cab fell our,, and he had to. run inside, the,"' caTS till passers-by stopped, the' driver 1" ■' '- : ' •': * " .'.'.*:■ y-".''-'*'.":/.'-. ■■;■•'" ' "CH-UEN"..IK oS'.LETTEKS.:-'.-'■"■■•; Have- you ; ever-^ seen - the" " word •churn spelt thufs?^-"-•' • '" '■'•- '•> AKSAKKILTIKTHLIKTH LAiiA--"WAIT KYANA"MAN"KXJK:iNGMINf KIKTAHAPITHMUK; ■ •',-•' Anyhow,: a' Surrey. "'cbireipdHdent wrote fo " John .o' London'«. Weekly" to say that a primitive: Indian tribe} irt South. America,.-after having- 'seen-, for the first -time a ; -.ehurnciu; .:opecation, coined'that .mo.nstrosity.ofva,3votd:tOi<ie»: s6riba-tliej;ma6l;in«.^ i T l The:-corigspondr e'nt av«is thai he 'jived^iprdnanj-- jea.rs among those Indians. ■ This -is. fcis'iaterpretation- of- the word:^-AKSAK,: -a thing; ' KILTIKTHLIETHLAMAv -a beater; WAITKYA, a cow;',JS ¥AM(E), udder, teat; ANKUK, itsj.INGMINIK-, fluid, juice; iK-TAHA,: -to' beeoihe^ PITHMUK, fat; butter. ' -In-"" English, "A thing :"■. a .beater,of the-fluid-!of -the ■ cow's udder to clause- it.to become butter." Although-thevcompleW. word is rarely in use; the writer-thinks--that ' AVAITKTANAMAI^KtIKINGMININE, "milk'," must be used, constantly; - f .......' '«■'■:, ;i "';.-■■&.■■■ .-•;■';- ' '""" * -' . ■ ' 1^2034!;: : •"Writing.-on the- prevalence of - the murder mystery novel in recent issue of.an. English publication, a critic- asks tlie' pertinent question: - ..■" Whafe. TviH posterity' think of the'? morals.:of -tie present day if they judge -them r by-;th» staii'diiicls of preseut:day English^ fiterature7". Perhaps something like this—, ■-- I wish I lived in days gone by— .' '-; ' In nineteen thirty-foui-1— '''';'.'"?':'.*'' VZkcn morals were a thing-non." est" "' ' And chastity was but ct "jest".'.'; "■'"... ■ And criules.werefuii'galofe!:" ' ■ Instead of just one skeleton ... -.'.., "lusido their ithey.. .: -. ..' ■Had skeletpns_ija..cellar ■,'deep'v*;* And 'neath the'led where tulips peep— 'Twas just their- little 'way;!;.": '••" For murder was their* greatest ioy. Wi^h l)uUet,"cluT»7-o"r knife; And, none .cared ,^uppenee .whom heriilleS? So long as someone^s ild'od was SpiDed . To:give a. spice to Jife! The anjateur'deteativeilaJighedJtr" At policemen with. a<cluej ' ~ - With rapid glance-^not on the scents He looked-forrtlie nidst-incoceit^'":. : That^all.there.was.'todo!. . Folks talked! of sex and ithings- like" .that ,At_ midnight jnasquerades; : .. ~■■. - , .that spoka .of..'passional. ' ■"■' ;:-" power '•' -''■'"' -;; ;•* •■■-:---:'-!" ■"■.\".. In shady.nook-or lonely tower' '-"" :Wpre written by: old. maids.. .. ■. -.-■•; I wish I lived-in'-days gone by, • ■ •'" • '.'-'When babies guzzled gore, "■ ''■■ ; ' When parsons lovea«to cuSdle iiurse, ' When 'no one cared a tinker's^ curse--Who robbed the corpse inside the-hears* And everything seemed in reversed •■ ? Within^the good.old universe,■-•- - t When even JPlage, the' saintly "Peice,' ■'' Would wink an eye and publish'Vers#' Front Esperanto Bert sMdf worse r.- •-•'" ' In .nineteen"thirty-foUV! i •..'.■',-■-. : ":-' ;■". ESPEEANTO" BEKTV abcMdtjde. :oiTO'S r lCHAisridEs.': All this talk of- the •res^eratiop:: of the. Habsburg dynasty in : Ausfea- with the Archduke Otto as head may come •• to naught, conditions in.Geutral Europe being what they are, .but .it twill-not bo the,.- ex-Empress-Z-ita's. fault.. ; if monarchist plans miscarry.-. -Ejiie.d r:iaBelgium, she^ has never-given up: hop? of seeing the--Archduke:: ;; asce;hd r the throne* Otto- has:beeu. !e.ducate.d--"with. the sole idea that #ne day ief^will;wear the crown. He lives ittjaa.atmo'spheTß-p£-,kinglin.css.--. ;Hjs_.:brothe.rs. and.-sisfers address.'him' as'Majesty.'.When-; the-'ex-. Empress Zita- was, ,iv-% Rome recently, trying to solicit" the^-aid- o.f: the -.Pope for her ; plansj' avvregular.-liC.Oli'rti' ittended- by: -Huugajiair\nobles r-was;.. h?l.d.. as^though Otto wete.already.monar.ch:jv - Dollfuss, as a Koman.-GatljoJic, would probably-favour the "■festo.ration of :the. holy Eomah" ■Empire, " of;.' TvhCeh , tije Habsburgs were ;.so: long the ;heads, ,t«ifc; his hands are ■ fuU of: more'-ujgeit problems at -the'moment. ■ Starheiaherg;. the Fascist. ' leader; vis.-;; an;;, avowed monrireliist, as. is Major Fey;; D.t)Hfuss?s "strong man;" The :eS-Empressf hasbeen bidding for-the support of: Itaty. During a recent meeting of monarchists' in Rome it was stated-.that tlie'Arch- •' duke intended to' marry the young Princess-Maria af"ltaijl*, 'and this'wa* never oflicially...tlcniod.i-But Mussoliii * has issued a'warning that a Habsbv* restoi.ition neecK the tonseiit of Itsig anil Fiaiue and Britain also aie i* tereatin^ thcmsehcs an the future oi Au<fria. • , -