POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 9, 10 July 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

It will be heavy going for the hordes at Trentham tomorrow —not forgetting the punters. # * . # Add howlers: Members of Parliament meet several times a year s to disgust the nation and its problems. A.OK. * *■ . .* Herr Doktor (Bro. Goebbels) calls upon his people "to relpx and look on' the bright side of litt." How : can. they when their eyes pc fixed on the Russian front. , , '',"#. »■, '■ 9, ■ TRIBUTE. They have every reason to-ba prot^f of their record and confident of-Il_i future—so the R.AJ 1. # v. From the lips of a German airmad shot down ih the West Country cap* the greatest tribute to their success:--, "Few of our airmen escape; "they either get shot down or taken prisoner. I always knew there were;_w laurels to be won in England. . .-.*• • • • * INnMATTONp KJK.: The poet Adam Lindsay Oop» don was not an Aussie. He shot hftfc* self. . Jacko: Ineffably nonsensical.' . Merry (Island Bay): We coctSmoe *i be accessible at the old address. ~GW_ to hear from you. < ; Waterlogged ("Horaebound"* 'W' one of the local weeklies. , Postscripter: We have copies fromn two of our readers of Walter 6. Charlton's poem "Strong Young Hands." H.M. ("Overcoats!"): Lively verse, but too lengthy. •* ♦ * INFORMiCTICHf. In reply to J J.M, eoo««rair»g earthquakes: ■■:•.*" Throughout tbe world, rtxmt WOO earthquakes . are .* recorded -every year, or rather more than one an/hour; but nearly half of theee are hardly ielt by people. It takes a scientific instrument to reccwd them. Only 107, on aa average, are sufficiently; violent as .to damage buildings. Britain has about one a month, but they ara *so small that they cause Uttta mora vtbrpflq» than a passing lorry. Qotta a wnnbaf of really big earthquakes tahe ptoc4 under the ocean, bat 'me -hmv .^■BT little about them. * .* ' .'.■*,•.".; FAMILIAR PLACEB. The people at Karachi Are inclined to be stardHfc But then it's wetter Than at Quetta. Benghazi Is in the hands of thg Nazi , . According to the Premier's iatonaK9m9 And pronunciation. ■'•- Borrowed from the "Raw -JRaAsa* man and Nation." *.■■'* *■•■■'. DR. CLEOPATRA. K.L. (formerly of Kensington, EnjF land) sends this cutting, which may interest women in particular; , Women doctors cured people ceo* turies ago, and Greek, Roman, and German mythology mentions many women healers. Ancient India was rich in women who specialised* in the healing art. According to Pliny, Cleopatra was famous as a healer;and -a mixer of ointments, potions,.and unguents. Theodosia, mother of the martyi* Procopius, was a doctor. Another woman healer was Hildegardis, famous abbess of Rupertstferg in 1098, and there were several eminenfc.j women doctors at the University;; of| Florence between 1380 and 1400*. .