POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1934, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

"Amos-'a'-Andy" wishes to deny tho rumour that Moses was a toreador who was rescued from the bull rushes. «■ « # That suggestion that the world could eat its way out of the depression should provide tlio hungry with food —for thought. '■:■ * * One of our co-worker's lads draws bottles excoodiugly well. Probably this is an example of inherited talent becauso tho co-workor has had long ex* perience in drawing corks. * v * "Bolivar."—lt is reported that according to an unalterable rule at Boyal weddings Princess Marina will promiso to obey. Ours did, too, but—oh well, it's too late to go into that now. •» * * .Roosevelt appeals to the bankers tQ renew their confidence in the people, but what seems more urgently necessary is that the bankers should renew their : confidence in Roosevelt, . . * • « MORE WORK FOR NEMESIS. "To. win the sympathy of the broad masses,'' said Adolf Hitler in a passago 1 from "Mem Kampf," which the English translators discreetly suppressed, "you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things." Adolf has been as good as his word, and has won "tho sympathy .of the broad masses." But the gentleman who looks as' little liko a dictator as Mr. Forbes looks liko Neville Chamberlain is only fooling himself if ho imagines he can fool all i the Germans all the time. . <> * # ■# PIGS DO FLY. You will know from periodical references in the cablegrams how air-minded Kussia has become. Here is further evidence on the point. At a Soviet "air day" celebrated recently in' Moscow there were several events of more than passing interest—passing up and down. First, a number of pigs and other live : stock came down by parachutes, and ■ then a jazz band of ten instruments 1 made a spectacular descent. It is stated ! that tho musicians exhibited the great- ' est sang froid, and played like any--1 thing all' the way down. Wo do not ! catch the purpose (if any) of such. ■ aerial novelties, »but if- there is an ' ulterior motive at tho back of them we L can rely ou our vigilant N.Z.W.L. to s disinter it and hold it up before a popi eyed world. ' * * # I MOBE ODD ADS. Wanted, a female donkey. Apply per» , sonally or by letter. r Governess wanted. Symmetry of i form, fascination of manner, and brilliancy of conversation strictly objected I to, as tho father is much at home, and , there are grown-up sons in the family. : Address, "Mater," P. 0., Clevedon. r A lady whoso husband is goingabroad wishes to meet with another as . companion in his absence. The Model Laundry. Change of - managcnie it. N.B.—Shirts ironed on the new principal. > For sale, three woollen babies' shoes, two black gentleman's hats, and one . green lady's parasol. ; Plain cook wanted for country. On*. who can milk a cow and a Christian ; preferred. « * * > SCHOOL'S IN. 1 Do you know that — ! 1. In the Islet of the Evangelists to [ tho west of the Straits of Magellan it ' rains 317 days out of the 365? J 2. Last year experts of the New South. ' Wales criminal investigation depart- ; ment took fingerprints of the monkeys ; in the Taronga Park Zoo? ' 3. A purple lobster has been received at tho aquarium of the London Zoo? 1 4. Among the nicknames of the jaunty) Wren arc Jenny, Jinky, Juggy, Kitty Ma-Wake, and Stumpy? 5. Tho horns of the biggest of the bigJ horned oxen of Nairobi have a spread of Bft 6in, and are two feet around the base? b". Though the leaning tower o£ Pisa is 179 feet high its foundations are only; . 10ft deep? 7. They have a bay steamer still work* ' ing around Melbourne, the eighty-year-" i old Edina, which was the official guesfc boat when the Duke of Edinburgh, ' visited tho colonies in 1867? 8. Scientists have como to the conelu* sion that tho Brazilian Monarch, king of butterflies, travels across the Atlantic from Brazil to Europe? 9. Literally clothed with snails, 4 French version of tho sandwiehmail patrols tho streets of a Riviera town? 10. About 30,000 pariah dogs are shot ; in Singapore annually by experts speci-1 ally engaged by the municipality? ' -;> «• * ' THE MILES HAWK. Now am I tired unto the bone, , Yea, to the marrow, of dull routin* i Drab as a dustbin overthrown, ; Or an oldster topcoat turning green, I am weary, too, of the native scene* But all theso megrims will take t«| flight, And bo, dear sirs, as they had not been, If Fate look kindly on Mac and Wright. No silvern trumpets for them hav«l blown, Nor have they gaudy plumes to preon^ ; But steadily down tho air they drone (And the miles are weary and long between). Through hostile winds and tho raiu-i | storm's screen, ; Through turbulent day and sulletC night, 1 They press with a high resource and keen ... I Fate look kindly on Mac and Wright, ■ Veteran and youth, they havo stoutly] i flown, Mastering all that would intervene, ■ Plunging ahead o'er tracts unknown, 1 Hill pass, desert, and dark ravine, • When tho way of the road was hard toi i glean, And Darwin was far, far out of sight ... So, when their wings to the southward lean, Fate look kindly on Mac and Wright. Prince, theirs is such a little machine, i Compared with tho "aces" a pygmy, quite; ; Which makes it incumbent on Fato, i I ween, That ho look kindly on Mac and Wright. ISIDORE McFLAGF October 26. a » . * A MUCH-LOVED SENATOR. . This may provide our Parliamentar- . ians with a new idea fov certain .solemn. : occasions. It is a Senate resolution of • the Oklahoma Legislature, a tribute to a Senator who had passed on. The resolution reads: Our lips are poor ministers of our hearts on this occasion; a deep emotion is circuited by a meager scope when tethered to the spoken word. The 'pool of sorrow stored in the heart's deep well is not reached by the buckets we lower of human speech. It were a profanation, of the sweetest flower the soul can bloom could Wo coin into language and give to common gaze thati which only,.sorrow mayjsee.^*^.* _