POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 46, 23 August 1939, Page 10

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY RAGE

Adolf (exuberantly) to Goering (in ecstasies): Stunning, what! * * * Yesterday the Poles were up in arms. Will they be there tomorrow? * # • Prediction. Hitler once more has got his way by masterpiece-ful : methods. : * • * Income tax payers may not have ; been bled \vhite, but don't they see ; red! * * ' • Omadhaun.—lf this beer boycott goes • on some people will begin to feel 1 groggy. i * * * ; If you see in the papers that screen "stars" have been divorced or wedded the first, second, or third time it isn't i news. , THIS ENGLAND. (Certain Labour M.P.s please note.) There are certain persons to whom ; might well be commended, at the present time, two memorable sayings of Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: "The government of the world is carried on by sovereigns and statesmen, and not by anonymous para-graph-writers or the hair-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity." And the other: "The English nation is never so great as in adversity." ANON. INFORMATION DEPARTMENT. ; S.J.R.—Cervantes was the author of "Don Quixote." William Wallace.—(l) The Christchurch Cathedral. (2) We know of no "budding Lovelock in New Zealand." ; (3) The only one who knows h the name of the "highest-paid man in [ New Zealand" is the Tax Commiss sioner, and he won't divulge it. Any- ; how, it isn't the Prime Minister. : Inquirer.—Tregear's "Maori-Poly« [ nesian Dictionary" gives ake as'mean- , ing "onwards," in point of time. Exj ample: ake, ake, ake—"for ever." Regular Reader.—Guernsey uses pounds and shillings, and a bronze , coin called a double, which is equal ;to one-eighth of a penny, while | Jersey mints a local penny. » * » [ UPHELD! ; Dear P.F.,--As you say, Chanticleer is some terminologist, and he is to be ; commended for his endeavour in the ; field of nomenclature. In his sugges- ; tions from time to time three names were already in circulation, viz., Verey ; Lights; Col. Bogey, and Deflation. [ Curiously the horses are at the same > training centre. Subsequently two of them were in the limelight, and at [ present I am saving up for the third. j The presidential address at the recent t Trotting Parliament mentioned the , satisfactory state of affairs. Some years ; ago when the control was not so effiL cient a newcomer to the game went to ; enter his horse for a trotting event. : "What's its name?" the secretary asked, ■ and the owner replied: "Well, I dunno, Mr. Rattray, but I think Protest would ;be a good name for a trotter." So > named it was successful, "and the deposit returned," in a heat or two. ; ■■■' " -■-.■ - .:-. ..: „ K. * ...■•'..■ ♦ ; BRAIN-TEASERS. [ Further solutions— ; 8.1. N.K., Eljay, T.T., Too Easy, Ali Baba, John X., Overtoun ("something ; a little harder?" 0.X.), M.T. (Heads), Newtonian, Nice Work, G., Scotty Morris, Magnum Opus ("a great feature —these teasers"), Saturday Night, Janette and Two Sisters and Bill: all full marks. ■ . Single solutions: G.HE. (No. 1), Y.Y. (No. 1), A.F.W. (No. 1), Wise Guy (No 1), Tracy, X.Y.Z., Admirer, Student, Northlander, F.R.S., George 11, Rejoyce, KB., and Jerry—all No. 2. Dudeney's Ghost hopes that we shall "never never diverge from the present policy of catering for all classes of solvers. . . ." N. 'phoned us to the same effect. There is no need to fear any change, though once in a while we may turn on a No. 1 for mathematical specialists. * ♦ • SOLUTION. A man (whom we shall christen Brown), In this same month and year, Was exercised with righteous wrath, About the price of beer. At lunch-time he, with Smith and Jones, And others of that ilk, Haughtily to a milk-bar went, : And drank some malted milk. Quoth Brown: "So long as this high price Demands itself for beer, No alcohol shall pass my lips, No pub shall I go near." Our hero was a firm-willed man, He had a fighter's jaw; When to himself he gave his word," That word became his law. You would not speak to Mr. Brown Words noxious to the ear— His comrades listened with respect, Even when he spoke of beer. Soon, easy-going Smith and Jones Of malted milk grew wearySaid they,. "Suppose we just drop ia It would be much more cheery." But as for Brown—what does he find? His skin grows fresh and clear; A certain flabby look has gone, Sometimes produced by beer. His mind becomes alert and fresh, His youth returns in glory . . . And are his wife and children glad?— I'm telling you THEIR story. A "RECALLS." Dear Flage,—Time was, in political circles, when thoughts of a "recall" were a positive nightmare. Now Wellington's talented juveniles and others from afar are trying to move heaven and earth (besides the more hardened adjudicators) to obtain the disr tinction. To sit beside a tiny tot at the Competitions and hear her exclaim in accents of awe and pride, when another chic competitor takes the stage, "That's my sister! I do hope she gets a recall!" gives one a slight impression of what the honour means —especially to family prestige. Again, to be rewarded with small offerings of chocolate, in return for loaning one's programme, by an eight-year-old damsel possessing a dozen or more nut-brown ringlets to further the illusion that even Fairyland had entered competitors in the various section—is to "recall," if not renew, one's youth again. Even grandfathers feel tempted to tap dance, but with discretion laudably leave it to the grandchildren. To the children themselves competition is, for the time being, the spice of life, recall or no recall! Proud mothers revise the family meal hours to be in line for that possible "recall." Teachers cheerfully carry "props" for the stage scene—a drum, toy dog, or . a spreading palm tree; anything to j propitiate those with power of veto over the "recall." The Competitions are a festival of youth and talent. Will this year discover another quaint Cecil Haines, or graceful Bebe Witts? G.P.