POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 13, 15 July 1936, Page 10

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

By Percy Flage.

Add definitions: The Scot's descrip tion of a dictionary as "fine confused reading." '

"What is the world coming to?" asks an Auckland publicist querulously. Not to a full stop, we trust.

The obstacle in the way of returning her lost colonies to Germany is that the tenants seem to prefer their present landlords.

Add sage sayings ((from . Londur; "Referee"): Now Wagner was an artist, but he was by-no means so artistic as all that. On the contrary,' he was actively engaged at this time in a love affair with a married ladv.

COURT SHORTS. : . - (From English Sources.) Solicitor to woman: What happened to your third lodger? Woman: He escaped. Solicitor to young defendant:' You, were the worse for drink.'

■ Prisoner: Oh, I shouldn't say that. I felt simply marvellous at the time.

Wife: I married my husband in August, 1914. A fortnight later he left home and joined the Army. In 1919 he came back ,to me, but a month afterwards he "joined up" again.

EPIGRAM.

Maybe your palate and the palates of some of your readers would .be tickled with the following epigram by the late Dr. Richard Garnett:— Our undertaker, with, his acid phiz, A grim, austere, sardonic fellow is And, save for. business' sake, was never heard By any mortal man to speak a word, Yet Bacchus, Venus, and the Graces Three, Have no such potent advocate as he. Yours fraternally, BILZE IKES.

PRESCRIPTION.

If you don't know what a hang-over' is you are either too pure to live to a ripe old age or your lack of sophistication is beyond belief. A hang-over is the morning after the night before — and what- a morning! Personally hangovers never or rarely come our way, primarily because our friends, too, are impoverished. However, for those who indulge in such luxuries, here is a recipe that is guaranteed to make the most recalcitrant hang-over almost a thing of beauty and a joy for* ever. The inventor is an Italian connoisseur at present in charge of the grill room of the Queen Mary. He prescribes hock and seltzer mixed in. equal proportions, the which, he assures us, is immediately effective, and far far better1 than any chemist's brew. We shall be glad to hear from any bibulous Postscripter—if there be any such —who has put this prescription t» the test.

FOR "PEACE" IN THE EAST.

Editorial note from the pen of an American newspaperman who knows his job and his subject: Now Japanese bayonets guard the railway station of Peking, seat of Mongol and Manchu and Ming Emperors, for seven hundred years, and Japanese sabres rattle in the streets. . . . So Japan marches on, and with the rule of force, rather. than of law, for the world. Peking will survive, and it will be still Chinese. -If the Japanese stay, they will be Chinese, too, as the Mongols and the Manchus became. Perhaps even Japan will be Chinese—after a thousand years. And the Chinese are very patient. Because they can remember four thousand years, they can wait another thousand. Meantime, one can only die, and .there will always be others to %ive on. So China thinks, and waits, and wins. But those who know Peking as one of the world's suprems cities, a vast treasure house of teeming lif.; or interest, and of beauty, all Chinese, find it impossible to picture it regimented by khaki clad Japanese troopers. The imagination just cannot contain it. And, because it is unimaginable, perhaps it can never become real. Meantime Japan is proud, China Is patient,- and the world is ashamed.

SQUELCHED. She was indeed a phantom of delight (See Wordsworth) when she gleamed

upon my sight. The eyes the bard portrays, the duskjr

hair, • The whole banged lot of attributes were there. •

And then one day the rude awakening came, • Since which I've never thought her quite the same; It was the day I saw that lovely face Eating an orange in a public place ■ ' D. J. DONALD. #* " •

IT'S JULY 22!

Wednesday, July .22—that's the day to put a red cross against, for remembrance. An unforgettable occasion, believe us or not.

The "peelers" and the mail boys went into heavy training last Saturday— at Trentham. The P. and T. warriors were at an.advantage, carrying much lighter packs in the "work out" than on their daily round.

Several members of the "foorce" were practising flying starts in the line-outs—particularly at the Trentham front windows. Did they get away with anything? We're not "splitting." ■ ■ . • ' Young Hull—a hulluva good lad from the training depot—may make the team. He would have been a certainty had the Hawke's Bay-Welling-ton match taken place before the Big Clash ... it would have given him the necessary wind-up—and we mean nothing windy. ■ . Many are trying, but only fiiteea will be chosen from each big union. Gats, truncheons, and whistles are being polished up for Wednesday next, and if there should be any Bob Kruse stuff handed- out—well, that will be the ref.'s funeral. Or will it? Too holds are barred; we hope none of th* wild men will stoop to such low tactics. We understand that a.truce will be called on the 40-hour week to enable the contestants to concentrate on the contest. The "posties" are notorious —sorry, renowned—for- their footwork; that is the rock their foes will trip on. What a day! Imagine—the only day in the year when a "John Hop" can bs knocked down and mauled (if the ref. isn't looking) without the miscreant being run into the "cooler"! Wouldn't Joe Powelka have been in his element! The nominations are a record, the weights will be declared soon, and the '. acceptances threaten to cause hearti burning to many stalwarts. Nevertheless, the starters will no doubt make ; up the greatest field of triers seen on I the Park for years-'n'-years. : And, whoever suffers when these : Titans lock horns, it won't be the t charities. . , . Reserve July 22 and forget all about . politics and business. JiOmEZRB*