POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY PLAGE

. Time inarches, but the Germahr don't ... ■■. . yet , " ! : V. . '.' -■ *. '.. ■#...: ~;.:.■ MiPicturesque saying: "She is vogue on the outside and vague inside." ' >■;•• •. * ■•■■■'- ;■■ ' America apparently doesn't like the Nazis' catch-and-carry off system. ***' ■ . ' If ever Adolf should be'out of a job ■. he would be. assured of a: warm welcome in one of those American Liars' Clubs. ( ■ # # # ■ ' D, Ing. Bats'.—News note: New Zealand farmers bitter over the price of butter which they think should be better. * .»■ . # . INSIDE INFORMATION. Says Lord Frederick Hamilton in "My Yesterdays": "For the short run into Dublin we were given "the railway saloon .especially for* Queen Victoria, whose interior, as.iar as I recollect, was entirely lined with white silk, mirrors, and gilding.* 1 This' is the first 'authentic description that we have met with* of a Royal interior. , • , ■ R.J.P. w to '* ' • CYNICAL DIOGENES. Whether the, storjr is, authentic there are no means of ascertaining, ,but it i 3 of ancient date-and in keeping with other anecdotes,told ofi Diogenes, who was noted for such pranks. After Plato had made a i hit .among th£< leaned men of Athens byd€stahigs>jmafl as "a two-legged animal without feathers," Diogenes stripped a rooster of its feathers and brought it before his pupils, paying: "Here fc/'Plates; man for you." * * ♦ PROPAGATION. "Looking .through, the^minutes, for the year 1910; of a borough council.not a hundred miles from Wellington," writes "Suburbanite," "I came across the following:—'That steps be taken for the extermination of rates and of such conditions as may encourage tiieir ' propagation,' ;l. ', ' -i.fr- .<.' "I considered it a lovely ideal, and could only deplore that so. little had. been done to prevent propagation. Alack-a-day, the. advent iof Mr. Nash propagation has become prolific* * ■■.-.-.# » A BIT OF NONSENSE. (OR IS IT?). No more chickens, no more eggs, N6 more clotheg'props; iio more pegs* No more garters, no more braces, No more boots and no more laces, No more drinking at the dances, No more girls with sidelong glance*, ■ No more silks and no more satins, No more interest in the matins,- . No more rum and no more booze, No more Yankee high-heel shoes, No more brollies, no more' gamps, ~ No more blundering in the'camps. In }his land of fcmilk and honey - ' No esqape from paper money, No escape from all the "isms," Social, bolshev—, rheumatisms, No escape from all the ills ■ •"' That note inflation o'er us spill.*. "WHOOZIT'V AGAIN; .-i -• -:• -•".' / •.: ■-/ BRAIN-TEASER. Hataitai led the field on Saturday evening with the two solutions, which arrived round about 5.45.,..The next was a newcomer, Violet, whd worked out No. 2 successfully. R.J.W. followed, with No. I—the work of his "dad, who 'phoned the answer, from his dugout on the harbour front Others'., who came in late with two solutions were , B".J..Phil o' Math, B.LN.K. (we talked ' of gardening arid golf' illuminatingly and to some purpose"*, C. Leslie .(another newcomer), Overtoun,- M.M, Robot, Timothy Titus', , and ,' Just James. Wise.Guy had thfcee shots at No. 1. hitting the bull's-eye 'on "the eve of our departure for the-pillow. Gasmask turned up on the Sabbath with his solutions, and another ,-Postscripter rang us up to say some kindly words relative to this feature. He lost a few shillings at the local trots,, but has a "sitter" (so he avers) for the Cup at Addington., It.'s a race we should like to\ see. * •. .'.# «-• LIMERICKS. ' ■*:-:* Dizzy's idea:— . * \* c" There was a gay lass called .Lplita, Who had a girl friend named SaTPita; But, regrettably; Sal, ~, .-t A most curiouskgal,./-^'-'!!! Ran away with a boisterous beefita. Efpee sings:— There was a- gay' lass ( called Lolita, Who shocked--every one-in our strita; As the neighbours passed by, She'd kick to the sky, Then pirouette, on her two fita., Don Q. wrote this: .-- - There was a, gay lass called Lolit* Who kept as a pet a tame chita; But the ungrateful beast, Unconcerned in the least, Turned on her.one day and did ita! From Philip (Tokomaruj :—• There was a gay lass called Lolita, Who was Pedro's adored-amorita; When she caught cold and died, Pedro sat down and. cried: "I can't live without my senorita." From Scotty Morris:— s * - There was a gay lass called Lolita, Who set off to hunt a big chita; Her courage soon fell,. And she started to yell, When she sighted a little mosquita. ** ' * WINDY. Dear Flage,—An unusual street seen* was enacted during the lunch hour recently. A Lambton-bound tramcar pulled up with such suddenness that ,the passengers wondered what the matter could be. The conductor hastily ran forward and lay prone on the roadway, gazing under the car. The tram driver followed suit. "What could the matter be?" Passers-by gathered in scores on the kerbstones opposite. No groans, or other sounds, came from beneath the car. "Should one call the Ambulance, in case of need?" Nothing .was.done in this respect. Suddenly the:drjyer ran to the back of the tram- and applied the power. Cries of "Whoa! -Whoa!!" rang out as the wheels revolved backwards. "What could 'the matter me?" . The mystery was. now solved. Reaching well under the car, the conductor handed to a young man a battered trilby hat—which' he; received with an equally battered smile of thanks. Just another victim to-the-already long list made the sport of Wellington's rude, blusterly winds. .'. When will they become "gentle" and behave themselves? The most pleasing feature of the incident was the courtesy Tand consideration shown by the tramway men.- An object lesson to more, callous "hit and run" culprits, on more serious occasions. " • General Sir lan Hamilton remarked, when visiting Wellington that if fatt had not made him a soldier he would have elected to become a hatter, in Wellington and rapidly make his foiv tune. In this 'instance, "Wind and effect." Who said "My hatl" - - G.F.