POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 142, 18 June 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

8V pERCY FLACE

Notice in N.Z. pub: If the optician' orders glasses, don't take mine. *'' * « Off the line, Melisande. What Hitler calls his Herrenvolk has nothing to do with fishing folk.' * * # The way we feel now, in the event of another Tokio earthquake, we shall ask the 'qusflce if it needs any assistance. America has dropped producing great battleships, and is to spend the millions on aircraft-Carriers.. She realises nowadays who does the sink-^ ing. - ' ~" * ■ i ■..■»■■ *. BAR BAR BLACK SHEEP. Press item: There is a class of women and girls who are drinking in hotel bars and lounges and literally throwing themselves at soldiers and sailors. These, black sheep ofv society must be the sin-ewes of war. ERIN-GO-BRAGH. * , ♦ ' '.' *- • "•'.''-■■.: SPEEDING TRAINS.' " Dear Flage,—Re Tika's par about the opening of the Napier-Woodville line. There was once an occasion when word came through to Napier that the train would "arrive, on time. THisy caused great-excitement in the town. All the shops closed and the crowd, headed by the Mayor and brass band, went to the station to. give the guard and driver a | civic welcome. In replying to the Mayor's speech, the guard said: "Many thanks, your Worship, for your comt plimentary remarks; but I should jusj; like to mention that this is really yesterday's train." -.; AMADEOSP.S.—Did Professor Rutherford have to resort to the use of the third,degree to make the atom split? .".*■•■• * x * SHE HAS 'FLU. •-....-. We refer, to Mame McClancy, authoress of that not-quite-so-famous feature of Col. 9, which has appeared every Thursday over many years, of this and that and what-about-it. The McClancy has been seized by ; 'flu,, so ,her gallant husband informs us last evening. She sat .up in bed, pencil and paper* in hand (the aspirin handy), determined to see the usual job through, arid/to that end asked Bill to take a dictator—one presumes that a dictate is'what was meant. But Bill stood his ground on the bedside* chair and refused to agree, the result being Mame's semi-collapse with appropriate epittiets. So.' all good Postscripts will understand. why the-, Monologue is missing tonight. We feel sad about it, but there you are. Hail the McClancy! And don't forget there is at least another Thursday ahead. i - v. •'■.#■' # ' # "PEEM POME." : Dear Point, Five Nocht—Why pick pn me . Aneht yer "Peem Pome"* progeny? It's quite a quid name, I'll agree. . And this I'll state— ':■[:?* In a' the Islands o' the SeaAppropriate. ' L'm no an . etymologist. Sae.dinna ken hoo words exist. ... Bui in "Peem Pome" ye hae the gist O' sound- an' sense-r-Sac tae an' instrumentalist— The reason hence; .Some folk. y^ken:.can blaw thelhorn, A: feat we ;sometimes liaud tin secret. / But since the, year that I was bornr-^ Could rattles thump— The "Jew's herp" was. frae morn tae ...:■:.. jnorn-—; :'.../ ■"'•'■■ ■••-.-■■ ■. ~ - Just •■ cad a "TRUMP." ;•-. i . - CROWBAR;