POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1939, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGB

Plash! While .the democratic countries are making speeches, Hitler is making plans. So what? • • • Clearly you can't hope to win over the Russian Bear with honeyed words: like any other bear, he prefers the honey. • • • This one from Melisande's youngest sister: Mushrooms always grow in wet places and so they look like umbrellas. • * ♦ Danzig is well named the Free City , because there you can please yourself what you do if you do what it-pleases the boss to tell you to do. GUESSER! It's annoying for some, And for others distressing, ,That the furious Fuhrer Should have Winston guessing. *. * * : AXIS TO GRIND. Dear Flage,—l wonder if this little story, which I recently received from Sweden, is any use to you? Mussolini, Hitler, and Roosevelt met in order to discuss dividing up the world. "I," said Mussolini, "being the oldest * Dictator, have heard a voice from One who is above me saying, 'Thou shalt ha^e the largest portion!' " "I never said anything of the kind!" , said Roosevelt, banging his hand on the table! . "ELLES." "' » * • , r HEARD THIS ONE? - A , middle-aged bachelor was .in> a' ■ restaurant at breakfast when he noticed this inscription on his eggs:— "To Whom It May Cpncern: Should this meet the eye of some young man who desifes to marry a farmer* daughter, eighteen years of age, kindly communicate with " After reading this he made haste to write to the girl, offering marriage, and in a few days received this note: , "Your note is too late. I have been married five months today." • * # . BRAIN-TEASERS. Here we are again, with a couple of teasers which may give you to think for a while. No. I.—A woman once asked her' husband if he had change of a tenshilling note. He looked in his pocket, found he had 13s sd, all in small money, and told her that he could not change the note. In fact, he j couldn't change any coin, whatever it» denomination, whether ' half-crown* ' florin, shilling, sixpence, or threepence. What did he have? No. 2,—Hidden English towns: — Treee + (?). Chorine- (?). Failha + (?).' Atarge + (?). Connil + (?). l Maruh + <?>. Threse + (?)- - •, " i Doorf + (?). The (?) stands for a missing letter. The towns are well-known towns— not villages. Now turn to your atlas. ' " From Sarah (Te ArarOa) comes '« solution of last Saturday's No. 1. • _ „ • . * : ->•-•; \\ r --} o: ' ' > SCHOOL'S INr ' ■ ■*=' Do you know that— ' (1) Over three million German* - since the World War have renounced ' religion in order to avoid the heavyState tax placed on church members? (2) In one of the Taoist temples "of China for 4000 cash the relatives of a dead person can purchase, a letter to Fengu, the Chinese Hades, otherwise Hell? ' ' \ (3 s) The New York central railway N system handles more freight .than all _. the' railways of Great' Britain and France? (4) Feng Yuhsiang, a Chinese gene-, ral who turned Christian, once baptised 10,000 of his soldiers' with a fire hose? , x (5) The Papacy is the oldest established sovereignty in the world, with' the possible exception of Japan? (6) Because its presentation may be- ' "injurious to public morals," Osaka' police have banned "Hamlet," the first - Shakespearean play translated into > Japanese? (7) The congregation of Bracebridge; Ontario, built their own church, a com-, pact wooden affair, at a cost of £5? (8) One can buy tripe on Sunday* . ■in England, but to buy fish and chips •, is a crime under the'Sunday'Trading Restriction Act of 1938? * (9) In the great Chicago fire 1)f .1871 three square miles were wiped out in. the heart of the metropolis to the tune of two hundred million dollars, and. 250 lives were lost? ' (10) The female of the German butterfly, Acentropus niveus, can live' only under water, and.the male onlyin the air, so that a rendezvous be^ tween the two is an extremely difficult' achievement? • * » - UP-HILL, This is a request number, / C.P. (Brooklyn) asked for it. ; Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the'whole long day? From morn to night; my friend., < But is there .for the night a resting place? "i A roof for when vthe slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? ' . ' You cannot miss that inn. Shall I meet other wayfarers at night? Those who have gone before,. Then must I knock or call when just , in sight? They will not keep you standing at the door. Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak? Of labour you shalj find the sum. Will there be beds for me and all who seek? Yes, beds for all who come. —Christina G. Rossetti. • # # AD, MEDLEY. v "Script," that, bright weekly of . Hollywood, has a column inviting ad- ' vertisers to state their messages ' in their own language1. , Clipped cullings or culled clippings follow:— I TEACH PIANO, classic or swingl, lo children and grown-ups" too v who have a yen for musical self-expressioft. , Felix Do Cola, Hillside 7966. TRADE AT SACRIFICE, charming 12-room canyon home, 2\ acres, 5 bed* rooms, 3 baths, servants' quarters,lovely garden, citrus trees, inviting > swimming pool, badminton court, barbeque, panoramic views. For canyon 9-room home, OXford 4670, evenings;' , Bestor. Obviously they want a smaller grey home in the>west. , f WOMAN, confused, unhappy, roman- > tic, ironic, discouraged, hopeful, sad, gay—wants the pieces put together again, invites correspondence, men thirty-five plus in similar position. Joan, Box*Y, "Script." < She" should worry—she's the answer to a movie director's prayer! _ CHANTICLEER,