POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGH

The Prime Minister says that "the other fellow will have to take his gruel." That's more than the Nation- | alists can swallow. We have recently had a look ct some modernist furniture which looked like entrails ripped out of a locomotive. "Caballer'o": This is history. In return for her favours, Henry VIII gave Anne Boleyn first the Crown and then the axe. ■'~-. « a .. •» Foreign Minister Sato: "Anti-Japan-ese sentiment in China is partly traceable, to misunderstandings by the Chinese, who suppose Japan harbors aggressive designs." When will \ tha Chinese learn to kiss 'the hand, that bled them? # *- * . OLD—BUT GOOD. , . The best story of the week .(so fas as we are concerned) is told of the Frenchman who was about to be executed and was given a last wish, so. he asked that his wife, too, should be guillotined. When this was refused he said: "Well, I want to learn English." '• : «■ . • » - HIM BUK: - . ' . Revised (Papuan) Version. Here is a little problem for anyone who imagines himself a scholar of the English language. Can you guess the title of this wellknown hymn? "All this road me walk about, '■■'. "Many holes: stop me. • ■ . • "Me 'fraid too much me. fall down along him, "You helpim me, . "Suppose you me two feller; go ons time ■'■'..'"'■ "Me -no can fall; all same me ' go along day." No?—lt is" "Lead Kindly Light" "asprinted in the "Metodist Him Buk" used by the natives of Papua and Polynesia. ■ EGGING THEM ON. Platoons of seagulls on Anderson's Park this morning recalled to mind a story told by an authority, F. H. Kirkman, in his book "Bird Behaviour." The specialist says that seagulls can; be induced to sit on such varied objects as a lump of coal, their own eggs painted scarlet or cobalt bluei wooden eggs which part in the middle, and even a tin gilt box and a vaseline tin. The only objects which Mr. Kirkman has found them to reject were those with uncomfortably hard corners and those which were.too large to be sat on. Here is what happened with a cricket ball. After pecking it "interrogatively," the. gull first sat outside the nest and then made a number of attempts to sit on the cricket call, sliding off on to the next nest every time. It ended by sitting down be-, side the ball and partly covermg.it with.its wing." « --■ * • ; TROUSSEAUX IN 1837. .-;.. "Any doubts that the women of today live in an enlightened age can be- set at rest by comparing a brides scanty trousseau. nowadays with that of.-a century ago,-(writes "Elforleather, _ Miramar). Here •is a",list of lames "treasures" of 1837 I have, dug out of an old magazine: 6 longcloth chemises, trimmed lace, 2 ditto (for best wear), 6 ditto (plain for everyday), 14 nightdresses, 6, pairs drawers, tucked, snd trimmed, 8 ditto (plain), 2 pairs extra strong corsets, 1 ditto (French), 8 petticoats, 4 slip bodices, trimmed, 6 camisoles, 4 dozen handkerchiefs, 2 dozen hose (cotton, or balbriggan), 1 dozen ditto (lisle), 2 pairs silk hose, 3 dressing gowns, 1 flannel wrapper, 2_ chintz toilet jackets, 2 nightdress bags, 4 merino vests. (Note.—The convenient and sanitary combination garment could be substituted for chemises and drawers.) Total estimated cost, £44 17s 3d, There seems to have been a considerable reduction in armament.3 since those days, but the items have not brought a corresponding reduction in costs, so the men continue to wear their old pants and hope for the future. |, ' . ■. LIMERICKS. There was a young lady of Spain, Who. we fear, is fast going insane; She discards her apparel, And, dressed in a barrel, Sh° capers all round'her domain. I.MANASS. ■- There was a young lady of Spain, Who said: "I know soon it will ram; For I have a bunion . ■ As big as an onion, And it's giving me exquisite pain. ANNA DYNE. There was a young lady of Spain, Who awoke ■ with - a horrible pain; Her pet chiropractor Turned her.over and smacked 'ef, And then she was healthy again. E.A.R. There was a young lady of Spain, Whose beauty caused Franco great pain; He conferred with Hit-Muss,.- . And agreed—sans all fuss, With germ puffs to powder her—plain. ROUGE-FLAMBE. There was a young lady of Spain, Who suffered from civil war strain; As the bombs fell down, plop! _ She moaned: "When will it stopT There goes Franco! 1 The most individual effort of tha week: — There was a young lady of Andalusia, Who was loved by a gay caballero, When he vowed, -"I'll refuse yer Nothing on earth that'll ■ amuse She fell 'into his arms, crying: "Oh, my Hollywood hero!"' , '■'.-. CIVILI. * * '* •.."'■ STAR OF INDIA. Dear Sir,—Re your query in Column 8 under the heading "Star of India." My father and four other members o£ the family who came out in this ship are still alive, and all hale and hearty. My father'is now 75 years of age, so was 12 years eld on the ship. His name is Tail. I have in my possession a newspaper cutting with the list^of the passengers of the Star. of India, November 10, 1874. • Wishing you the best of luck, Yours .sincerely. (Mrs.) I. E. MacLEAN. Kaiwarra. ■'■ • Dear Sir,—l must thank you sincerely for nil the answers to my inquiries for information regarding survivors who were passengers by the Star of India, nnd thanks also to those people for their replies. lam amazed to know there are so many survivors after all these years. I was only three months oldVhcn my parents went on board, and my parents both passed soon after landing in Lyttelton. The photograph I have is too old and faded to I copy it has been in our. family 63 ! years. The letters in Column 8 were all very interesting, and I wish to thank everybody for their information. Yours sincerely, , STAR OF INDIA, ■ Lyall Bay. • .