POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 40, 17 February 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

lh these wild wa* days XhSt e are faif too many flbptimistie speeches. *'** * : ' Let us hope the Japs do not find out about Britain's £itcairri island or the oyster beds down south. "Panorama," Manila: Sumatranv women don't give a heck how much they reveal—as long as their knees are covered. * * * .-.'■*■ "What is the most useful of all sbcial accomplishments?" asks a cbrrespbri--2 dent. Being able to yawn with the - mouth closed (gets bur vbte. *- * , * * * \3jorkmari: Thinking of the future, we take for granted that all things <:harige arid grow except on&-4he * human iriind. . * * # THE DIFFERENCE. * A German whose name was yon Fritz Said, "Prison camp's just like der Ritz, Each morning 1 dine s Off food vich iS fine r At home when we eat, we just sits." I NONAME. c * * * 1 FUN IN THE ADS. , Warited, a Caterpillar Driver. Presumably to chase the pests off the . cabbage patch! _ Lost, Picture, iri guilt frame. The ■ new kind of .frame we are getting ready for Hitler arid his garig! Best wishes for 1942. , ART. '' ' * . * * NOMENCLATURE. * Chanticleer has cbrrie tb a decision - anent the naming of his Phaleron Bay ; [, —Weatherstep colt: it is to be labelled r Salamis. 0. F. Nan.n, the Terrace, * picked out Salamis, which is the island i off Phaleron Bay, famous as the s first battle recorded in histbty, B.C. 478. Chanticleer had at first an idea !» of using Chant or Sailing Master for '■> the youngster, but Salamis made him desist. By the way, we have found out that Chanticleer is considerably interested in horses whose names run to 7 13 letters, Sailing Master, for ex--7 ample. t * * * t j WRONG ABOUT RUSSIA. 2 Many of our notions about Russia t are completely wrong, writes 1 "Friendly." One is that the Bbli sheviks deposed Tsar Nicholas 11, arid :, subsequently murdered him. In actual [. fact 'Nicholas was deposed by the d upper classes with the full sympathy s of the Allied Governments in March, 1 -1917. Another idea, which sticks fast «vis that Bolshevik is synonymous with - a Nihilist of anarchist. It is not. Boli shevik is derived from the Russian c word "bolshinstvo," meaning "major- - ity," and is the opposite to "Merishes vik," derived from "menshinstvo," c meaning "minority." Soviet is another - word which causes confusion. It means "council," comprising elected workmen, peasants, and soldiers of any town or village. * * * f SALE-TIME SOLOMONS. , 2 If you were in charge of a bargain I counter and two women struggled.over v j a remnant, tb whom would you award . it? Solomon would offer tb cut it in . two, but that might, not give satisfaction. There aire laws "regardiftg shops ' v and the goods they sell. Do not imagj me that because an article is displayed , in the window at a certain price the £ shopkeeper is bound by law tb let you j have it. Legally, the display of an t article is merely an irivitatioh by the , shopkeeper to members of the public ' to make him an offer at the price a quoted, which he may accept or reject, "_ as he. pleases. Moreover, if two or _ more persons demand it, he may D choose to whom he will sell it. The I law also allows him tb refuse a cus- . tomer, to raise br lower the-advertised a price, or to withdraw the article from ' offer. ' - * * * i f COLUMNIST OF "N.Z.E.F. TIMES." Tom L. Mills: One of my grandsons * over in Libya has sent me a copy of - that really excellent weekly distri- ,• buted free of cost to the troops from 1 Cairo, the "N.Z.E.F. Times." Its column-* > ist has a Percyflagean wit, ferinstance: Shotguns for the Shbgiiris. 1 Poor old Robihsori Kuriisu. This will l _ make him Konoyed. May find himself * just the son-in-law of Heaven, before t very long—or find a Star-spangled^ Spariner in the works. News Flash (Wellington): The N.B.S. has interned the Japanese Houseboy. (Readers note: Should have been done long ago.) The Nazis seem to be making progress very Staliriogradually. Waiting for Hitler v to Leningraduate? Anyway, Crimea doesn't pay. ; Isn't Moscow a fair-cow! [ Gott in Himmler! He's Nobody's i Darlan. Tobruk or Notabruk? .That is the [ question. i # * ■ # P.C. . I've just received the news that "Pop" '. Has been gazetted as a "cop" . On E.P.S. selection; , Although his feet are uridersize * He's up to standard otherwise And weighs up to perfection, i I know I should be proud, of course, y To have my pater in the; "Force," But there is this objection— Though I'm a law-abiding son I have a modern sense of fun That may invite correction! A pop pbssessed of policing powers Makes "pakapoo" and "after hours" A tax ofl circumspectibfi. This prospect gives my soul a chillTo see him glaring through a grill Upbraiding my defection! s H. GALLAGHER, island Bay. * *** * - * ■ . BLIND SEE. We are obliged to R.G.W. for the following instances of the blind having their sight returned unexpectedly:— Mrs. Pearcey, of Reading, had been quite blind for eight years. On an everting iri July last she was standing on a chair, fixing a black-out curtain, when she fell. Shaken but not badly hurt, she went to bed. Next morning she was able to see. Iri some manner which seems almost miraculous her sight had returned. Hers is nbt the only case of its kind. A Canadian soldier named Ghambets, blinded in the last war, w&S sent home in the liner Hesperian. The Hesperian was,torpedoed by a German U-boat, and sank almost at orice. The blind soldier Wasfliirig into the ifcy sea, and rescued with difficulty by the crew of a boat When he came round he shouted: "I can see!" In this case, as in the other, shock had restored his sight. Another* soldier was blinded in one eye while fighting in 1918. Sixteen yei=tfs later he got a bit of grit in his blind eye, arid it gave him So much , pain that he went to his doctor, who treated himi and sent him to the King Edward Memorial Hospital.' He slept well. When he awoke next morning he found the fight of his blind 6ye had .returned.