POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1939, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FJ.AGS

It is intolerable that a British subject should for the fom-'-'i tiir- be stripped by those Japanese se.-r,ries v He might catch cold. ■ '. ■. * ■'"*.• « It is all very well for Germany to ' get angry over the mass flight of British bombers in France and call it war-morigering from thP air, but better that way of practice than ' blowing women and children to pieces. • • ■ « This week a legal firm received from a dairy farmer instructions for his will, ' one of which read: "I wish to be creamated." Another example of a ruling passion strong in death. ' * * ■. ■ «• ■ FIZZ. Noticed the other day a reference to one of Adolph's nominees—Ssesy Inquart. Melisande may be under the impression that this is something in a bottle! K. Simile: As anxious as a radio announcer when he (she) says, "Now, I am afraid my time is up." -::- it « THIS QUEER WORLD. The first twenty verses of the 37th chapter of Isaiah and of the 19th chapter of II Kings read alike. The first verse of each chapter is: "And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it. that he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord," At the coronation of Edward I the charge made for a seat was half a farthing. At Edward ll's the price had risen to an entire farthing; at Edward Ill's it was a halfpenny; at Richard ll's and Henry IV's it was a penny. Henry V was popular, and the people paid twopence in testimony of their admiration. i> # # BRAIN-TEASERS. This persiflageous note accompanied Scotty Morris's solution of No. .1:— Here is a real bit of detective work. Cub reporter sent out to find six professional men. Six bottles of beer left on your doorstep. He tells "full" story, and after a bit of C.I.D. (come-in-doors) work, he gets the empties. Well, after investigating the matter I find these to be the guilty men. . . . They are all frothblowers—not safeblowers. Overtoun, who lands the double (as usual), has given me a knighthood. The bare idea induces knee-knocking. Pearleen clues out No. 2, Just Me Nos. I and 2, as do M-L. and Nice Work, Al Fresco (your jolly note appreciated) masters No. 1. Logic Cuss sends a solution of No. 1 splendidly analytical in the Sherlock Holmes manner, Amos Minus Andy gets full marks for No. 1, and Agnes, F.C.T., and Grandma have seven of the eight fluhes, experiencing difficulty with the second. Here endeth. the third lesson for the day. » •* # FOOD FOR THOUGHT. As a follow-up of a note ire "School's In," on strange foods, J.W.W. sends us a yarn, the gist of which w». print. - One of the delicacies favoured in Japan is octopus or cuttlefish tentacles, flavoured with tho intestines of..the sea urchin. . - The Siamese, relish, not orly white ants, but spiders and millipedes. . . In Japan the bullfrog, which is displayed at all the local agricultural shows, is regarded as a most appetising dish, and that applies to the Beche de Mere also, though it has a poison element in its system. J.W.W. concludes with this interesting piece of information:—Who would like to breakfast off a pair of white kippers? Very fewpeople, for we like nice brown kippers. Yet the natural colour of. the kipper is white. The Americans know this. They eat thousands of our best Yarmouth kippers every year, and an „ American would feel just the same way about a brown kipper as we should about a white one, As a result, all . our kippers have to be dyed—just to keep us happy! MORNING TEA MONOLOGUE. Pass me a sandridge—pass me two, As any dinkum 'ost would do. It's your "shout," ain't it? Ah, thati good; Like you I'm very fond of food An' things similiar like that 'Ow do you like my winter 'at... Four-sn'-eleven. Quite nobby, eh 7 BUI seems to like it, anyway. 'Angin' down over the right eye, I'll bet it gives the passer-by A "kick" now that my 'air's been set I ain't, brought any lipstick yet, ■ But that'll come, dear, with the paint What turns a sinner into faint . An' makes us grandmas look as tnougn We're nice gals givin' IKe a go, 'Ence that demewer come-'ither glance Which means a wash-out or romams. (The sugar, please) I've gotta bit Uv what Mac West disenbes as It, Or some such words to that eftec, Plus rather a becomin' neck. •Owever, ain't it fine to 'ear . That Chambermaid-I'm sorry, jlearHit Chamberlain 'as put he breeze Up 'Itler's pants, an' made im sneeze An' tremble in 'c's boots, what shows 41 simply daresn't come to blows. Britania^ay not rule the waves, But Britons never will be slaves. The which the war-bugs reckernise Th"y win who struggle to a clueve. GOOD CHEER. Dear Flage,—ln contrast to the pre nassine (aboard an early morning tramcar) a city hotel emblazoned over ,??h civinch red type announcing tte very SteJing inflation that I "-h-mce-over" bad taken place. If the nSfswaf intended to be in the nature oi a bombshell, It as in pleasSS contrast to those threatened, alSost daily! from another source. , To the initiated the prominent captlo -J.T »g~Now On Tap" would be received with cheers and visions of free beer Be that as it may, it was cheering in itself (It being much too S?rlv lor legal trading purposes) to - resKter a hope to be "called to the Be?'before evening to test the truth, if not on oath, of the aforementioned statement so exhileratingly displayed. It 5 not often that the opportunity presents itself to be at the same time taster, Judge and jury special advocate, and keeper of the Privy purse, for the modest entrance fee of sixpence Apart from other entertainment possible, one could blow upon t» heady froth that even the rasins moods of the seven a*»»p--or to «"•(?- roused Berlin—could not equal. Above all, the casualties a.re so slight that one might reasonably * count upon being able to "come again," if the levy (due) had been conscientiously "liquidated" beforehand. Failing that—well, live in hopes (not hops) that a loan may eventually eventuate. Better a pint of "good cheer" than a peck of troubles—whether at home or over--1 seas. G.F. 1 ~-air *"