POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 87, 9 October 1937, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle ' and Comment

• BY PERCY FLAGE Nations continue to point an accusing finger at Nippon, but so far none , has lent a hand to a ravaged China. •» • • Theodore Parker says: Democracy 'means not "I am as good as you are," ibut "You are as good as I am." . • i. • • From •'Jo" (not original),—-"Fasten [that tunic button, you!" bellowed the isergeant-major. "None o' that strip* •tease nonsense 'ere!" * * * :„■ . Two cables from Hollywood: (1) Rudy Vallee is engaged to an Indiaa ' film dancer. (2) Both deny the engagement.:' . Who the cares, anyway! '' !; #\ SEAFOOD. "Out on the rocks when the tide is low.'' A lady in the tram told me that she goes out and gathers mussels and brings sea water in which to cook them. She says that if you mince them and fry in batter they are Just like whitebait. What does Mrs. McClancy think of the price of meat? ■; ' L.G. . ♦ ■ • ■.# VARIATION IN THEME. (Mr. Wilkinson invited Mr. Savage to renew his challenge to the Opposition to name "the day." H, of R., 7/10/ 19370 The angler from Egmont (not Mr; Wragg) Disported himself as a bit of a wagWhen he asked for a bite, Mr. Savage sat tight— \ I'll say! No more will he brag of "Der Tag." . C.B. ■ LIMERICKS. Ethelbert Wragg proved rather , a : popular success: several of -our contributors made nice catches. And what have we got for this weekend? Let's see. It's about time reference was made to our army of household, horticulturists—not to forget, of course, those who are strong for veges. Here's a beginning— ! • A gardener who worked 'might and main' - . ...v:/.. L , Well, what of it? Did the- slugs mow down his early peas or the white butterfly his cabbages? Did the tin- ' invited and übiquitous terrier work havoc among' his priceless seedlings? We're awfully anxious to hear. * * #* . i , AMERICANA. Two choice bits from Sinclair (Nobel Prize-winner) Lewis's "It Can't Happen. Here":—: Mrs. Leonard Nimmet, wife of a Congregational pastor in Lincoln, Neb, whose husband had been sent to concentration camp for a pacifist sermon; was shot through the door and killed when she refused to open to an M.M. raiding section looking for seditious literature. (P. 288.) An English correspondent sent news of the murder of the President, of the University of Southern Illinois, a man of seventy, who was shot in the back "while trying to escape, out of the. country by long-distance telephone to Mexico City, frpm which the story was relayed to London." (Page 286,) N.W. ' ♦ . • • • • • SCHOOL'S IN. Do you know that— 1. A perfect oyster one yard wide and four feet long has been "restored"" by American geologists, who found it in the Texas Big Bend country? , 2. Rainbows that last from 1 , sunrise to sunset are common occurrences 'in' Siberia? 3. A Sydney chimney sweep drives 3iis own car to work, dressed in sports clothes/ and carries his tools of trade in a golf bag? ' - 4. Copies of the Duchess of Windsor's wedding dress, which cost Ker * £75, were sold-.two weeks after the wedding for £22 in New York? 5. There was once a Royal distillery • on the Balmoral estate, and the books of the Lord Steward of the Household show that Queen Victoria was one of its best regular customers? 6. Dr. Ales Hrdlika, Curator of Physical Anthropology, unearthed a skull in the Aleutian Islands having a brain capacity of 2006 cubic centimetres— the second largest on record? 7. Although the sun is using itself up - at the rate of 250,000,000 tons a minute, it is so large that it will not be reduced to the size of the earth for about 100,000,000 years? ,• - 8. Jan IH, King of Poland In "the seventeenth century, was born, crowned, married, and died on-the same date of the year—June 17? 9. Citizens of Honduras pay no taxes, the .Governments expenses being met by duties on exported ! metal,' hides, and fruits? 10. There is no camel's hair in ■..•■■■ camel hair brush; the brushes are made from the hair of squirrels? ■ ■ 1 • * IN ANOHHER WAY. I love my home by night or day, Its little rooms in colours gay; The neatest bathroom blue and whitt And windows lettirtg in the light. : I love it in another way: - 1 It looks right out across the bay; ~ivy The sky-blue sea, the birds so free That hover round are joy to me. ■ i I love my home, npy family too, My neighbours,- friends, my gardcai'

new Wherein the rarest roses take Warmth from the sun, arid beauty make.

I love it in another way: The rocky bank which ferns array. And gorse and moss bedeck at times, Through which Virginia creeper > climbs.

I love my home by tday or night Wherein I walk with; great delight; An easy chair for mp and him, A cosy fire, a light- that's dim. I love it in another" way: One room, in which ttl think and pray. Where I can close my eye? and feci That the good God' is very real. J. 8.1 -

| : GAS. | Some days ago it wis suggested by the Domei (Japanese official "Frew agency) that the Chinese would prol* ably resort to gas wasrfere. Today, the Chinese Consul at Sinking reports that "on Sunday nightf the Japanese troops at Lptien used gi W in their attack." If the story is true, it looks as though the Japanese "warning" was merely a repetition of the trick worked by the Germans in the Great War. In the middle df April, 1915, British Headquarters wfere mystified by an enemy communique* which stated . that the British had attacked a" sector with poison gas "contrary to the rules of civilised warfare," and by this means had made a slight advance. The British chiefs were well aware that nothing of the sort had happened, so they merely frowned and forgot. A few days later, however, theysaw that communique in a new light. Near Ypres, the first cloud of poisongas released in the War temporarily broke their line. The Germans had,been faking "moral justificbltion'' fo* this carefully-planned coUpy