POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 80, 2 October 1944, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

EY PERCY FLAGE

During the first four and a half years of war/British lifeboats saved 5547 lives—more than in the previous years. * ..*■.-. * Did you know that peony seeds were at one time worn round the a neck as a charm against the powers of darkness? * * * Life in. the camps for foreign - workers in Germany is terrible. Themen get hardly any food^ their wages are a few pfennigs a day, they are beaten, and. they have to work from dawn to dusk. * * .■■-.» SCRAP OF PAPER. It is reported that the Treaty of Versailles is missing from the strong- • room in which it was stored in France Does this mean that the Germans a» trying to keep the Treaty, for'■'•*• change? * * *. • LIPSTICK FOR FISH. Anglers, told that bait coated with lipstick has a special appeal for grayling, have been advised to use bait dyed orange red for perch and eels, pale pink for dace, and primrose for roach. . * '' *■. •■*'•■ COLD COMFORT. Odhima (to Hitler): "The situation in the Pacific is getting out of hand.** Hitler: "Oh, that's nothing. If s been out of hand here too for a long time now." . ERNEST. ' * -~ x :■■-..-- LISTEN. Dear Flage,—When the Allies swept across the Seine towards the Rhine Hitler's doom was sealed. But how and where will they catch him?/Sane, or in the Seine, or insane, or unseen in his submarine nipping to Nippon? ■:•-■■ Ad. H. * * * APOLOGY ACCEPTED. Some years ago a Bombay solicitor received the following from a native pen-pusher employed by him:— "Honourable Sir,—Kindly excuse this your servant from attending your Honour's office this day' as I am suffrom the commonly called ache of the interior economy, and I shall ever pray. "Your ever painful humble and' dutiful servant, ..„_.. "Ram Chunder." Which is one way of describing a simple tummy-ache! * *'. •*"''." ENGLAND'S OLDEST SONG. ' Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth mcdl And sprmgeth the wude jau— Sing cuccu! Unknown- "Cuckoo Song," the oldest in the _ English language, written probably in 1226 by a monk at Reading Abbey, somewhat questionably identi--5? d T ? s f ohn of Fornsete. Original: in the Harleian MS., The music to which it was sung still survives. The modern equivalent would run: Summer is a-comin' in, ' Loud sing cuckoo! Groweth seed, and bloweth mead. And sprmgeth the wood new— Sing cuckoo! ANSWERS. * * -. ■'*.'" FAREWELL TO SHRINES. thp?hl ?Sm^ si )f worshippers went to * the top of theKuden hill in the centre : of Tokio recently and made their last bow to the Yasukuni shrine dedicated ;to those who have lost their- lives "in jthe Imperial cause." This pilgrimage followed the announcement by the :?ifo vll'^°J^ d Imperialrlnspector for the Holy Shrines, Lieut-General Jiro iSaito, that he would-put all shrines and sacred altars underground for the duration of the war. *m the north of the capital the Mejii shrine !Ss£S al Trto the grandf*ther of thi pi esent Emperor and mecca of all ■Xf3> cal unew,order"«movements hadalready been buried in an iron-con-crete and steel shelter underneath theSaitn ?^« g' ■ Big ' beefy General: **p°.. 19t little concerned about the artistic values of these shrines. .