POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1944, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment .[.

BY PERCY FLAGE

Goebbels has called for a flight to a finish. * # » Soon now we should all be able, to sing with great gusto "We'll Hang Our Washing on the Siegfried Line"! » ♦ * In a speech delivered on Mother's Day Frau Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, leader of the Nazi Women's Organisation, is reported to have stated that 4,500,000 German women had lost their sons in the war. * * # NOMENCLATURE. Noticed that Modest Maid is visiting Battle Song. Suggest "Marines' Hymn" as a suitable name for the offspring. 1 -CHANTICLEER. * ■ ** ''■"". ♦ ' • ;. POPPIES, v Sir,—Here's an original par that may raise a smile:— A floriste remarked to £ customer , that it was a shame poppies do not ' last very long. The customer, on taking the poppies and her blissful departure, was overheard to reply: "Well, we can't be worried; they'll all be dead tomorrow!" BUTTIE. * * * BREATHLESS BABY. Amazing case of a baby who lived 90 minutes without breathing, and was saved after a grim battle by the doctors, nurses, and attendants, is reported from the Norwegian Hospital at Brooklyn (New York). The baby was born neither alive nor dead. Its heart was beating, but it was not breathing. The customary spanking produced no results and the baby did not respond to scientific efforts to make it breathe. Finally, an hour and a half after birth, metrazole, a powerful stimulant, was injected, and the baby began to breathe. CIVILIAN REFUGEES. , It is estimated that there are about 140,000 civilian refugees in Great Britain. Most of them belong to countries which are our allies—France, Belgium, Norway, Holland, etc.: but there are about 50,000 Germans and Austrians. Many of them are taking a useful part in the war as doctors, dentists, chemists, etc. Others have started factories and introduced new industries which should be of permanent value after the war. Altogether upwards of 450 of these factories have already been established and it is safe to assume that many of tnem will continue in operation when peace comes. Thus another of Hitler's senseless acts of cruelty is likely to have the reverse of the effect intended. *' • ■■»..■"■; I'LL SAY. Dear Hit,—Yer great Atlantic Wa» Has melted like a lump o' snaw. Irs useless noo tae hum an' haw— Yer ways tae mend. I think another week or twa— Should see the end! Id i^e *ac ken "3Ust what ye're thmkm'— J Whaslmk2? Xt £ ' likdy tae ga« Noo .answer straight—nae tiddly. I'll, pay the postie Kf'*% h™heeshde been jinkin'Like Hamlet's ghostie! rilhw at the last ye yer sentence, IU bet a saxpence tae yer tenpence? Yell carpet-bite, wake up, an* then sense Ye're truly whanged, Any|lp amidst moans o' repentence— "WELL!—I'LL BE HANGED!" CROWBAR. .. - * *' * WAR "BOOKMAKERS. . ofLinn Tn^??™3^ afe offering odds 100 to 15 that the European war won't be over by October 31 ThoS w ds of aPf? ple are having their little %&£&%££ wni shorten >■"! SL Ss*X hy a sudden ending of lie war. "There seems to be a general opinion that the war wilibe" fv?r g broken three months'' Lloyd? pJK S*°c]* olrn. message says 75" per within two months, buAh"s wffl S