POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 11, 13 July 1943, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Add howlers: A gargoyle is something you swallow when you have « sore throat. * «- * - Etna, never quiescent, has multiplied its craters, but the R.A.F. has i its crates—and howl I «■ • * - Not so, Melisand-: It Is scarcely possible that that .yalloy-crested penguin down south had landed there from Japan. # # : # JS- A soliloquy on "Sydney .Side"! In faring the war effort" the soldiers rfceiveth? wounds and the politicians do the moaning. **■ ■ » , HEARD THIS ONE? Young Private Jones flunk on to k parade ground ten minutes late. The sergeant glared, then said, with icy sarcasm: "So you have decided to come on parade. We were afraid you had signed a separate peace! a « ft EATS. Auckland reports that rats have bif> ten young children on the face and legs, fortunately doing little harm. Wellington will not be outdone Auckland. Our rats have invaded a jeweller's shop and eaten the. hands off clocks and watches. -It is well known that rats are attracted by tha smell of aniseed, sage, majoram, thyme etc., so it is probable that the smell of time in the jeweller's shop was th« CaUS<? °f the faVa|TIN^O.BRAGH.. » » .■*•■■■. SYMPATHY SCHOOL. There is a school in England wher^ sympathy is taught In the course of the term every child has one band day, one lame day, one deaf day, one day when he cannot speak. The night before the blind day his eyes are bandaged. He awakes blind. He needs help, and the other children lead him about. Through this method he gets a grasp of what it is really like ta be blind. And those who help, having been "blind" themselves, are able ta guide and direct the bund with under 4 standing. This method accomplishes what all of us need—daily training xa how we can establish a sense of rea] fellowship with others: so writes John Doe. » « ft BRACKEN. In reply to T.J.W. (Nelson): While revisiting Melbourne the poet Bracken had a happy time renewing many old friendships. The origin of the phrase "God's Own Country," dated from his verse of that title, written after meeting two New Zealanders in Collins Street. "How do you like Australia?" asked one .of the other. "It's wonderful, and I'm doing well here, but I would far rather live in God's own country!" Not making the money he expected in Victoria, Bracken returned to Dunedin. A day or two later he was rummaging in his; room when he found a leather bag containing 200 half-sovereigns which h« had put aside. It was the best strike of real gold he ever had! . ♦ * *< IN NEED. Peter Fraser cuts our tea, Our sugar and our honey; A bag of coal we never see* And now he asks for money. We do not mind your cutting tea. Our sugar, or our honey, But Peter dear, give us a fire, And you may ggfcggtfffifo^ * • • WHAT OFFERS? "To the Fair Sex: Wanted—A Partner for Life! Either maiden or widow gentlewoman upwards of 30 that may be agreeable to the married state. As to the person easy in that choice, I prefer sweetness of temper to personal appearance. Anyone . that may have an inclination'to" joiri'hands with a bachelor, aged 44, whose character 'will bear the strictest inquiry, not dis* agreeable' in person, so happy in tern* per to. make the state easy and agree* able,'andrs^ulmg to prove the veracity .of this advertisement, who has an independent'fortune,' by directing a line to. M.;.,Mid;dletbn," at the Belvedere, Middlesex, niay be waited on either in "Town".or'-Country. Letters received on honourable terms will be punctually answered.' Ladies, I am your sin* cere and humble servant." Yes, it actually "appeared in the "Morning Chronicle," August 30, 1775.