POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Never has so much been concealed from so many by so few. * « * The R.A.F. are making fine work of Germany's castles in the air. * +> * With the Government of the day it is the General Predilection. * # * Anon: One pair artificial silk stockings 10s 3d: how humbly grateful we should all be to Mr. Nash for these most expensive mercies. * ♦ * Henry: These Nazis must be getting very giddy by now after two month* of encircling. A sort of "Waltz.Me Round Again, Willie" movement we suppose. * »• . ' * LIBERAL. Court report in San Diego, California: Superior Judge J. Kelly, a Democrat, imposed a 50-cent fine on Henry C Gorin, 73, a Kentuckian, who admitted shooting a Republican last month . . . because he made a disparaging remark about President Roosevelt. "You went a little too far." the Court said. "You know, even Republicans have a right to live." * ♦ . # APPRECIATION. Dear Percy Flage,—Many, thanks to you and your correspondent's description of the Russian collie. It seemi that this dog is very similar to the blue merle collie which is often, though erroneously, called the German collie. If a dash of the Highland Beardie were added to the blue merle we would seem to get an approximation to the Russian type. Furthermore, the blue merle also often has a light eye, an some cases being "wall-eyed." JVIAC P.S.—lt seems that this dog was solely a working strain, as I do not ever remember hearing of it in connection with the show bench. * # * BRITAIN. "Island of bliss, 'mid the subject seas That thunder round thy rocky coast set up ■ ' At once the wonder, terror* and delight Of distant nations; whose remotest shores Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm; Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults ■ Baffling, as thy hoar cliffs the loud sea wave; O Thou by whose almighty nod the scale Of empire rises, or alternate falls. Send forth the saving Virtues round the land, In bright patrol . . " —Thomson ("Seasons"). * . * ■*" YOUNGSTERS' FEARS BANISHED. At Oxford, London, evacuees' are "writing their history in sand." The object is'to help experts to read the working of the youngsters' minds. One boy of six built up a fierce battle scene between toy tigers and elephants in one corner of his sand tray and in the other a toy rabbit peeping from behind a hillock. This particular boy had a fear of sleeping in a room by himself—a fear which he was too timid to explain. Now, his foster-mother is leaving the door open between their rooms, and he is no longer a rabbit in his stories, but the elephant who killed the tiger. Mrs. Frederick Laws, a well-known child psychologist, encourages children to express themselves in paint as well as sand. Her records of their drawings trace the development from repression and misery to freedom and joy. As the child gains confidence and speaks out, his fears vanish. ■«• » * BLACKSMITHS BUSY. The famous village blacksmith Now has no time to laze In the comfy seat next the chestnut tree He made in peacetime days, says a London weekly. He is back in his famous smithy, hard at work —repairing farm implements, mending for victory. Many other rural industries are coming to life, too, under the spur of war conditions and war needs. Charcoal is . wanted for munitions, and modern charcoal kilns replace the old ones, long disused. Cornwall is making nets for the country's broccoli crop instead of the old wooden containers. Once again the coopers are turning out wooden hoops for barrels, for we can. no longer spare the iron bands. From the hospitals comes a big demand for walking-sticks. And they are busy with the billhook in the long-neglected osier and willow beds, to make wicker for packing shells and Army medical stores. It's an ill war that doesn't blow somebody any trade. « * * FUHRER—FURRIER. Hitler wants five millidh coats! Five million coats of fur — Which most certainly denotes That winter will occur To queer his schedule rashly planned. And call his bluff in no man's land. For winter plays a mastejr hand— So strategists aver; To keep his army warm somehow, He wants fur coats—he'll collar now The furries of fraulein and frau Without the least demur-— But why not rob Joe Stalin's lair? The choicest fur awaits him there IF HE CAN SKIN THE RUSSIA* BEAR! G-rrrrrr!—Furhe-rrrrr! h. GAibummf Island Bay. * * # BLO*W ftIOUB THAN WA*B» Bsttaia h« given a considerable number of noble names in America* affairs. Two of the great names ait Washington and Lincoln. Both of these came of purest English forbearf The Washington family came from Westmoreland: the tiny church ot the village of Bowness has a four-teenth-century window in memory of Robert Washington. Abraham Lincoln's family came from Norwich. The American Lincolns actually emigrated from the Norfolk hamlet of Brandon. Then there was Benjamin Franklin, whose fame rests o n his inventions,of electrical apparatus. The family came originally from Ecton, near Northampton. William Perm gave the . wooded county of Pennsylvania its name. He was a Quaker, born in the Buckinghamshire village of Perm, just ■ outside Beaconsfield. some 20 miles from London. The well-known American University of Yale was founded by a Richard "Yale, who came from the Welsh village of Plas-yn-Yale, Denbighshire. The best-known family in American high society are the Standishes. They came from the Isle of Man, where they owned and lived in the village of Ellanbane. A certain Rose Standish married a certain Miles Standish, who came from the Lancashire townlet of Duxbuy, not far from Chorley. Together they sailed in the immortal Mayflower. The husband was the first Englishman in America to receive the King's Commission. The first American admiral was John Smith. He was bom at Willoughby, near Alford, in the woods of Lincolnshire. The first of the Puritans was William Brewster. He was born In the hamlet, of Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire. "