POSTSCRIPTS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS .

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

There's not the least flummery In General Montgomery. .#■ * * Australian Minister of Shipping: "The enemy is still at our gates . , ." Peeping through the key-hole, Mr. Beasley? • . ■ »■ ' » » Now that Mussolini's North Africa empire has gone; for ever you can imagine dear old Garibaldi rising up and saying: "I told you so." ■ v# . « * Elmer Davis, Director, War Information, U.S.: "We are trying not to fool the people, but we can't do much for citizens who insist on fooling them- ; selves," v ft » * INFORMATION, Dear Flage,—-Will you please give us a ruling on the total number of points held in the following cribbage hand:-^-Four sevens held in hand and an ace turned up". CURIOUS. Palmerston North. Total, 24: twelve for fifteens, twelve for pairs. " * •* ■» NON-STOP. I heard a crooner crooning; and, in the syrupy and'epicene manner of his regrettable tribe, he bleated to a shrinking world his advertisement of the alleged fact that "something was running through his mind"; and I thought to myself that at least whatever was running would not meet any obstructions on the way. LEO » * ' » ■ SKELETONISED. Did you know that the League o£ Nations is still functioning at Geneva? It is. True, only a very small skeleton staff is employed, and these people are chiefly engaged in reading the hundreds of papers and periodicals which, arrive from all parts of the world. The Health Department is also active and doing valuable work dealing with epidemics and scourges caused by war conditions. ■» ■«• » . THE PROPHETIC MUSE. From the old Germanic chaos hath there risen A happier order of establish'd things? ' • And is the Italian Mind from papal prison Set free to soar upon its native wing's? Or look to Spain, and let her Despot tell If there thy high-raised hopes ate answer'd well! SQUTHEX * * .-. * INTIMATION. L.B. ("Calling New Zealand"): Your verse has feeling, but rhyme and rhythm are weak. Fatty: Too thin. G.: That lively jingle, was not approved. . A.M.: Worked back to last September but f und nothing like "What S War." Sorry. "Straight Left."—You haven't hooked up one on the Government's chin. "P..... c" (1.A.D.0.M.): Not quite up to the mark. A.M.J. (Karori): Thanks for your notes in reference to early Wellington,' but we haven't room for them. "Ninety-nine": Your book of poems is ready to be returned. Our thanks. "Am I Wright": No, sir. 0.X.: We shall give it attention presently. D.M. (Tawa Flat): Beware the censor, who is'always on the watch, "Black-out'" (Palmerston North): Don't worry; there's a light on the horizon. A.8.C.: We have been unable to run down that particular proposition.