GARDENING LESSONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1943, Page 4

GARDENING LESSONS

The seed-sowing and planting demonstration organised by the Wellington committee of the Dig for Victory campaign was again postponed yesterday because of the state of the soil after the recent heavy rain. The demonstration plot, at the foot of Home Street in Kent Terrace, was made available for the campaign by the reserves committee of the Wellington City Council. The demonstration will now take place at the plot on Friday next, between 12.30 and 1.30 p.m., and the public are requested to be present at the gardening operations, which will be of interest not only-to the comparative beginner, but also to those who have been gardening for years. Questions arising from gardening problems are invited, and will be answered by experts. The Botanical Gardens will be the scene of compost-making activities on October 9, and practical tips will be given the amateur gardener. About this time ten to twelve, thousand tulips are expected to be in full bloom at the Gardens.

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

The Bolshevik bogy Is an old-fashioned fogy. * * *

Ante Sept. 25, A.D. 1943: New Zealand, a land of promise, flowing with bilk and boloney. ' • . * . * ■*

The Germans have failed to split Split, and Stalin will split Hitler's divisions to pieces if. the Blonde Beast does not watch out.

Malcolm Mac Donald, British» High Commissioner to Canada:- "On the Atlantic we have a submarine lor breakfast every morning now." ■» ■» * AN ABRIDGED TAIL, Messrs. Fraser, Nash, McLagan, and James Roberts were playing bridge. Mr. Fraser bid three hearts, Mr. McLagan four clubs, Mr. Nash four hearts, Mr. Roberts said six clubs, and clubs it was. '.■«■»' E.D.R. ELASTICITY. This shortage of elastic Is becoming somewhat drastic. .; Our braces are growing unhappy, Soon our. pants may be held up by pegs, Our garters are growing less snappy, Our suspenders are on their last legs. -—LEO. -» * * MORE COLOUR. Dear Flage,—Male fashions promise to be more colourful in the near future.' Trousers (for men) are unprocurable; swim-suits for city wear were banned two years ago, and reversion to the primitive is also prohibited. And so the heroes who will "make a dab" at crepe de chine or rayon now have their chance. J.S. * * * FINANCIAL DOPE. Kenny O'Hooligan has issued his preelection manifesto. Under the heading, "High Finance," we read: All banks, including double banks, grassy banks, and mountebanks to be taken over by the State. The Reserve Bank, to break the bank at Monte Carlo. After Election Day no further issues of dis-credit to be made by any political candidate. All to be for the party and none for the State. * * , * CORSICA. / No part of Europe has witnessed so many vicissitudes as the strange and lovely island of Corsica. It has known a dozen distinct civilisations, from the ancient lonian to the modern French. Carthage and Rome conquered the island in turn, and Caesar used it as a concentration camp. Later, the Vandals and Goths made it a battleground. In the long wars of the eighteenth century the island was twice occupied by British troops. At the storming of Calvi, the rugged fortress in the north, Nelson lost an eye. Last century Corsica passed to France. Seized by the Axis after the Italian attack on France, it is now garrisoned by six divisions. 4:- *• * JOKE EVOLUTION. Appears in magazine. Copied in newspaper. Used in almanac. Snippet in theatre programme. Furnishes laugh in vaudeville. Afterdinner speaker tells it. Translated into foreign language. Retranslated back into English. 'Sent to us as original. —IRISH LETTER. ABOUT FACE. •Hiitler's face, called an.insult to mankind' by Mussolini in 1934, was described recently by Professor yon Durzweil, who had the honour of painting it in 1923 and now, again in, 1943, writing in the "Voice of Austria." "His features," he said, "reflect his anxiety for the German people, together with his anxiety for mankind." What, Hitler ponders, will happen to mankind when it loses me? On the other hand, Winston Churchill, pictured by Goebbels, displays "an impudent grin when he appears in public. The face alone reveals the guilty man." Whereas- Hitler, also according to Goebbels, carried in his face "the furrows of all the deep suffering for the people and, in a broader sense, for humanity, of endurance and sacrifice,.of bitterness and of strain."- In short: he has the jitters.