POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1944, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY' FLAGE

For the Nazis to scorch the face of Europe would be a burning shame. * * ■ • ■ Spaghetti is to be imported by Italy for the first time in history. It is proposed to use Canadian surplus wheat for the purpose. * * * Fashion decrees: That wise old gentleman who deter-, mines our rations must be something of a dress designer. He certainly followed the dictates of fashion when, thanks to his edict, ox skirts and mutton skirts became shorter and shorter, a * * INQUIRY. Dear Mr. Flage,—Could you, or any of your readers, please tell me where the following quotation comes from, and, if possible, who wrote it? "They know not death who once have pierced the clouds with silver wings." Yours truly, J. 8.8. * * * RARE SNAKE. A naturalist was walking in the veldt when he noticed a rare snake about to go into its hole. Having no apparatus with which to trap the reptile, he decided that the best course would be to catch it by its tail each time it entered the hole and throw it as far as he could, hoping by this means to tire out the snake and thus make the capture easier. As the snake approached its hole for the seventeenth time, it stopped and appeared to think —then turned right round and entered backwards. * «. * STICKING PLASTER. Because a schoolgirl was clever at answering questions and, so it was alleged, "interfered in class-work," her mistress placed sticking plaster over her mouth. This was stated at Luton, England, when the teacher pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting the girl. The Bench held that a technical assault had been committed and dismissed the case under the Probation Act. The teacher was ordered to pay £2 12s 6d costs. She said she had been reprimanded for what she had done and it would not be repeated. * • ♦ repatriated! The "Echo" has returned — Her Odyssey completed, With freight of honours earned Where Nippon was defeated. Back from peril, storm, and stress Like a warrior from war. Proud in battered battle-dress She salutes her native shore— Back from war-swept sea and isle Back to service mercantile. And tonight I watched her go Homeward on the evening flow, Buoyantly on her release Traversing the lanes of peace, Rehabilitated now— Once again a trading scow— Spanking new from hull to mast, "Civvy" rigged as in the past— Stout old "Echo"! —H. GALLAGHER. * * *" NOT DREAMS. One day you may be able to cut from your newspaper the" printed soundtrack of an important speech, or a new song, and play it over on a sound-reproducing machine costing about £5. You may be able to have a room decorated with luminous ornaments on the walls which will draw their light from ,the sunshine,' for it has been found possible to "pipe sunlight" from the roof. These are not dreams: they are hard facts—facts of the peacetime future, says the "Bristol Evening News." Science has not dreamed them; it has proved them. It has invented a clock which is as near perpetual motions as anything man has yet made. It is wound by changes in the barometric pressure .and in temperature. A change in the temperature of one degree Fahrenheit stores up enough energy to drive the clock for four days, and because temperature ■is constantly changing, the clock never runs down.