POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLACE ;

A lathi is a bamboo pole Which makes hot Hindus ramp and roll. .'■.■■-•.- ---.. * ' * * Ernie: Headline: "Better Deal for 1 Mothers—After the War." But what about fathers! * * * All howlers: When people in history, make appointments they call lfc assassinations. ..#. * # Herbert Hoover: "The American people have always been a debating society. They get immense satisfaction out of gossip." ■':■'. '■•■*. '■ ■»■'•;* HEARD THIS ONE? : The Parson: What -did yoji think of miy sermon yesterday, Sandy? Sandy tlie Golfer: It was verra good. But when ye're expressin' "Hellfire" and "Damnation," I'd like tae see ye use a full shoulder swing, and no just rely on yer forearm action." * ■ ■'.-■ ," * ■ .*■ SOCIAL NOTE. That very ordinary but popular personality Private Murphy, affectionately known as "Spud," "Tatter," etc., among his wide circle of friends, has left Wellington temporarily on vacation. We trust he will not be absent unduly long. "CALORIIE." -# .'-'*' .''■■■.•'.""""•*'. LADDERS. "*..-;yy'::;- -•-'•--, Jacob _had a: ladder that led up to the slcios* ■ i '■ > But I have many ladders run down from top to toe; --■-■■-. Pay dear for silken meshes, hand out a coupon precious, And now to wait till long months go, Oh me, oh X, oh woe! . ■ " - - --.-,■' M.B. '.*'. " ' .* ■' ■ ■ ,-*•:'-'" BARGAINS IN DAUGHTERS. A Gold Coast or-Nigerian native who has already pledged ihis property and has no other security to; offer may obtain a loan by entrusting a young daughter or a niece to ; the-lender t.-.; act as his servant until the debt -ha - been paid. '.'.:-*■' ■ .#. - !■■■:.' .«, -.' '.'.;''. 'ME&N* / Some nations are: not too prolific In turning out things scientific:1 Of late we've had the proof-terrific. Our chimney-pots ".--;■• ._ Have now a grudge, precise, specific— Against the Scots. Built on the pattern of this raceHow could our chimneys hope to face A state of ruin and disgrace With features frigid, , ■■ ... , When they in their appointed placeWere set too rigid?: Had they but room to swing and sway, They'd all be standing up today • In glorious, noble, grand arrayStill "free" to liveBut—like true Scots in every way— '* They had no "GIVE"! CROWBAR. * ; .'*;-,-- - * ;.;' MAHDI*S.HEAD. 'ZZ"-.A Dear Mr. Flage,—As a young officer the late Duke of AtholL (then Marquess of Tullebardine) took part in' Lord Kitchener's Khartoum campaign. After the Battle of Omdurman, - Kitchener, in order to prevent "Fuzzy Wuzzie" from turning it into a second Mecca, ordered the razing to the ground of the Mahdi's tomb and the consigning of his remains to the Nile. K With acquisitiveness of his "Heiland' forbears, Tullebardine possessed .himself of the Mahdi's .head, also one of the copper cupolas which surmounted the tomb. The cupola he erected on the battlements of Blair Castle, but the powers'that-were,'.--getting-wind of the matter, made him disgorge his gruesome loot, which was duly returned to the Sudan and with more or less reverence consigned to the bosom of Mother Nile,1 thei:e to rejoin the. res' of the remains, -r^'x '. Yours, etc., 7-r y - , J.H.D. ■ .