POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 150, 21 December 1940, Page 10

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

To date, Japan's fruits are far from ripening. * # # We do hope that Heaven is not helping the Fuhrer when he helps himsell. * # ♦ Life's problems, even the simplest, will not let themselves be reduced i.o terms of mathematical preciseness. * * * Probably Hitler's contempt for "flatfooted Charlie" is based on the fact that the little man got in first with the ' "tooth brush." * * ♦ The tragic chaos in the world today would justify Britain in thinking she is living in the DEVIL ERA—or next door to it. A.H. * # # . There is an old Spanish legend which says that "when the apes leave the Rock of Gibraltar the English will leave too." The apes know enough to stay where they are. * # # THE ROUT MARCH. The Roman wireless stations Have such a tale to tell; Defeats are really victories, In fact, were doing swell. Our gallant force in Libya At present in retreat Will lead these boastful British To sudden sure defeat. The 8.8.C. is lying— We haven't lost our starch. Our going back to Libya - . Is only a rout march. j IMA ONE. I * # * HISTORY REPEATED. Here is a pleasant little quatrain which still retains a certain amount of freshness and piquancy. It was current in 1805. when the threat of invasion by Bonaparte was at its height. I commend it to Herr Hitler: Says Boney to Johnnie: "I'll soon be in Dover." Says Johnnie to. Boney: "That'i doubted by some." Says Boney: "Suppose I really com* ' over?" "Then, really," says Johnnie. "You'll be overcome." (Contributed by CO * * * AMERICANA. A Greek immigrant of Spokane, one Konstantinos Georgion Kallochrictianakis, recently changed his name:to Gus Elf. Philadelphia: In the.past four months Ernest Norman has sneezed three times. Each time he has gone to the hospital with a dislocated shoulder. Mr. and Mrs; Robert W. Rollain, of Seattle, named their eleventh child Evelyn Enough Rollain.. . . It got simply too monotonous hay« ing to cut down her husband every time he annoyed her by trying to hang himself, complained Mrs. Bertha Carter, who was suing for divorce. "This joke will slay you," a friend warned Cbleman; Pattison, of Miami. But that was 'an' .exaggeration: P.attir son merely laughed hard enough to break two ribs and puncture a lung. While police were filing plena Woten's • complaint- that Haiden Basil had wrecked her car, Miss Woten and Basil conferred together. "Neva! mind," finally remarked the lady, "we're going to get married," The acting County Judge immediately per* formed the. ceremony.

SCHOOL'S IN.; I Do you know that— . . , (1) A newly-mined diamond occasionally explodes as a result of internal strain caused by.its construction? _ (2) The new 200-inch telescope mu> ror made at the works at Corning, N.Y., was, when poured, nearly onefifth the surface temperature of tna (3) According to the ancient poet* Tasso, carrier pigeons were used_mu> in* the siege of Jerusalem in 10997 (4) A patent for a bomb-proof fourposted bed has been registered at tno i Reich Patent Office in Germany.' . (5) A reliable test for detecting gas leaks may be found in the fact that tomato plant leaves grow downward in the presence of gas? _ . (6) Napoleon was afflicted with aclurophobia, a disease which causea 3 over 5000 full-fledged musicians in Buenos Aires, of whom only about 2400 are employed fuU 7 Solomon, in the tento century! B.C. according to an aeolS^ was one of the first kings whose-maul tr^) c fSsSsX^ay colony <^ acted to 1647 a law which H«wdig * * * REQUITAL. Some day the silvery Spring-tide" Will come on silvery feet, In through the little gateway - That opens to the street. Will come with slender fingera A-tapping at my door. And 1, who loved the Spring-tide, Will answer her no more.

I shall not see the glory That shines upon her face; I shall be straightly lying In some green, quiet place. But I shall feel her footsteps Light on my sleeping head, And there will come a stirring Among the sleeping dead. Soft as the breath of roses Upon the scented airThen will they sleep more sweetly, Knowing the Spring is there. And I shall rest serenely • . Through heat and winter ram» Knowing my blood runs redly Like wine, in other veins; Hearing like faintest music From far, slow-swinging spheres Voices of children's laughter Go singing down the years. HELENA HENDERSON. « * # INQUIRY BUREAU. Dear Mr. Flage,—Can you give m« the name of the author (New Zea land, I think), whose poem included the following lines:— "Blossom on the gorse, broom upon the hills— . . Take the flower, and turn the hour— And kiss my love again." Sorry to fee so vague but years age I read it among some books lent me in hospital, and travelling to and fro through the Hutt Valley daily, ii haunts me. :• My family and I consider -your enjoy able and informative column the high light of the paper.—Thanking you. ■ INQUIRER. Once again we have to call on ouf 'Scripters to answer a question we are unable to solve, though the quotation is familiar. '