POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1939, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

According to latest advices Mr. Nash's talks with the Home authorities are progressing backwards. It is reported that Italy and Spain have arranged complete unity of aim. At whom? * « * It, as Tokio alleges, Britain is tha enemy of humanity, we know somebody who is one of the masters of inhumanity. ■7r # # i i Headline: !NO GROUNDS FOR A NAVAL RACE. j But there's still plenty of seawater. I | Our latest peeves. (1) High tension [flaring headlines, and (2) Ministers j who think it clever to add (imitating the Prime Minister) "and I don't apologise for saying (or doing) this or that." •::• «• * COURT SHORTS. (English Brand.) I knew he must be in the house somewhere. I could see where he had been scraping the mud off his shoes on the fender. My wife is a very aggravating woman. She makes you feel sorry you haven't done the sort of thing you would have been sorry for having done. My husband is a clever talker. If I didn't know he was always lying, I'd think he was telling the truth. I didn't intend to strike my wife. I only meant to knock her hat off. » ■*:■ -::- HERE'S A TIP. Having heard so much about your vocal efforts in the bathroom, I am sending you an accompaniment to your morning ablutions—sung to the tuna of "A Little Dash of Dublin." Will you buy your girl a section, Ere we have the next election? If you haven't, well you'd better-, right away. Because the Government'!! rate it, Or completely confiscate it, If you do not get it all freehold today. Cheerio. BUNGO. UNNATURAL SCIENCE. Whether you concur or not, the Japanese are an ingenious race. And here is one example. The silkworm raisers of that country have trained silkworms to spin on a flat surface, thus doing away not only with cocoons but with the expensive process of boiling the cocoons to kill the chrysalis. A number of worms, at the stage when they must begin to spin, are placed on a flat tray along whose edge is an electric current of low voltage, to prevent their crawling off. After searching about for some time for a suitable place to spin, the silkworms give up and begin spinning on the surface, continuing until they become so exhausted that they-, enter the chrysalis stage. Then they are picked from the tray and disposed of. INFORMATION DEPT. Just Me. —Grover Whalen is the man in charge of New York's World Fair. He is a man of many parts. In the beginning he wanted to become a lawyer, but soon he turned to business. His first real job was to organise the Business Men's League, and, as secretary of Mayor John Hylan, he was made Official Greeter of Now-York. He arranged Lindbergh's welcome, which cost £14,000. In 192-1- he left Hylan to direct the great Wanamaker stores. Soon tiring of that, Whalen returned to civic matters- and later on was appointed Commissioner of Police. The actual Fair itself has been laid out on an Olympic scale. It includes a cosmetic section built- in the form of a powder box, with glass roof and jewel-studded walls, vast radio, car, beauty, and heavy industry palaces, a colossal music pavilion which cost £70,000. a mighty sphere 200 ft in diameter and an obelisk 700 ft high. The administration building cost £200.000 and is complete with a wonderful State dining-room, panelled in sheet copper. There are 80 luxurious restaurants capable of serving 500,000 meals a day. In concept the whole thing is certainly the biggest and most expensive ever. It is estimated that it will need forty million admissions before the Fair really pays. PREMATURITY. We have hesitated for the last week to print this provocative and acidulous rhyme. This day we decided that tlie Bright Young Things wex-e quite competent to defend themselves—and for more i-easons than one we hope they will. If Bright Young Things would not appear Quite so sophisticated. (A vain pretence, and laughable) They might be tolerated. If they could wonder, sometimes, why They'd ever been created— They might not then be, by themselves, So rashly overrated. When they look back, in time to come* With introspect belated, And see themselves, they may begin To be sophisticated. SI JEUNESSE SAVAIT. * « a-BRAIN-TEASERS. As Col. 8 station closed down at 7 o'clock on Saturday evening, and as sevei-al of the jumbled names of cars were not exactly well known, the solutions received were lighter than usual. L. & S. was in first with No. 1 (5.40 p.m.). though he had to connect his figures while we talked. Amos Minus Andy and R.J.W. were next with No. 1 and not far behind thorn was Fire Brigade <f> newcomer) also with No. 1. and a partial solution of No. 2. which he completed on Sunday evening. Undo Cecil and Little Trevor landed in ten minutes later with both solutions. Hataitai with No. I and seven-eighths of No. 2, and AU Piffle and Phil o* Math also with seven of the eight car names. The evening of the Sabbath brought Brooklyn (yet another newcomer) with No. 2 complete. F.R.S. (with whom we discussed one of our foremost authors and nods. R^"">;'"i Hv^"** ha<^ No, 1 and three-quarters of No. 2 to his credit. Tika wjk next with Nos. t and 2. Miramar Mug (No. 1 and .87." of No. 2) following. Lastly came 8.1. N.K. (thai stands, by the way, for a jovial syndicate out Lower Hutt way), with both -oroblems well and truly clued out. We had conversation with the representative of the syndicate wh?oh xvs* boi, -> Infrtvmin*' r»v*i<*" entertyiiiinp-. A*'tpr that wo resumed aw* corner in th^ mo.lenpuk with a collodion of ??t chard Aldinßton's un^nw at our dlvnv. nnndorin?-; at interval? two propositions (not our own): (1) Thomas Bracken is nut a pod: <:*■" Thomas HrnoU,^ ss\ vioot And. Inter, so to bed, with the how* j that the Berhampore links will be accessible (climatically sneaking*' on Ml© 'morrow, which docs not scorn possible jat tho time of writing this movning.'