POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 57, 8 March 1945, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Too many people are like the lefe < B—in debt when, it isn't necessary, * * * "Europe is not possible without Na>i Germany."—Otto Dietrich, Nazi iw : Chief. . ■ # • # Wives in Court:—My husband has no sense of humour. When I hit him h couldn't see the funny side of a woman daring to do such a thing. * * * ■. One of the first demands of Austra. lians on Bougainville was 300 pairs of swimming trunks. At beaches round Empress Augusta Bay they ride roiw : in typical Aussie manner. » * » REMEMBER? A negro who had been exploringchicken coops heard that the sheriff was after him. Hastily he sought the railway station and asked for a tickj' to the end of the line on the fastest train. "Our fastest train left just ten minutes ago," he was told. "Well," gasped the negro, "jes' gi V 5 me a ticket an' point, out de track!"" # * « WHAT'S IN A NAME? Was intrigued with the following re. ply by "Binocular" to a correspond, ent: "A Gaelic word meaning gooi great, and generous." Took it to refer to Dileas, the name of the Dink. Cradle Song gelding racing pr-oafo. ently at present. If so, another mean. ing of the word is "faithful." Can any of your fans oblige with the pro. nunciation —although pronunciation does not carry much weight in these days of four dividends? X, Falhuluk. # » # •::■ FOOD. The American soldier didn't like the food set before him in a restaurant near Piccadilly Circus. The meat was overcooked, the greens waterlogggr and the reheated potatoes lukewarm, He called for his bill, leaving a barely-touched plate on the table. H e aged waiter was shocked. "Wasting food like that!" he said, I "Don't you know that food will win I the war?" I "Maybe," retorted the American, "but 9 who's* gonna get the enemy to eat ■ here?" , ■ -::- * * ' I TO USE "INVASION" FOOD, I Britain's vast hoard of anti-invasion food, hidden in secret depots through. out the country, will shortly be re. . leased. Thousands of tons of this food is stored in underground tunnels deep in the mountains of Scotland and Wales and in innocent-looking buildings in the heart of the English countryside, For four years these stocks have remained undisturbed, ready to tide the nation over .any food scarcity during the dislocation which any full-scale Nazi landing must inevitably have caused. The stocks are all tinnedsoup, meat, pastes,. and sweets, as we! B as coffee, tea. and milk—hurriedly B assembled in 1941. H An official of the Ministry of Food. B has emphasised that the dispersal will B not result in any increase in rations, B ■::■ * ( c B DAY DREAM. ■ With the Waitemata a sea of glass I And shining hills against skies of grey, BJ Stormy passions could swiftly pass Hj Ghosts, half-forgotten, by the way, ■ My dreams were peaceful, rich, ad H Free from fears of tumult or riot, H I pictured a room with a flreplaa kg There were bowls of Bavarian bin-; BJ Daffodils, mirrors, and shaded light, BJ Where we were alone, I and you. BJ Alone with our cherished pictures ail BJ books . BJ From gossiping surmise, conjecturing (■ looks. H Whilst you leant back in the best ami' B And I curled up by the fire, H How. we should settle the world's vain pj care . BJ And remould it to heart's desire. pj Love without angry passion, friendship pj always to be BJ Cherished in tender wisdom and deep pj tranquillity. H NGAIRE OUTRAM HOGAN. ■ Auckland. Kj "WOOED" BY WHALE, X United States submarines are no! only deadly' war weapons, but apparently they have a sex appeal. Lieutenant. Gilson Rohrback, of* Seattle, back on leave, has revealed that tte submarine on which, he served wss wooed by a whale for days before discovering its mistake. "The whale, w ; said, "was swimming round and round and spouting and making a regular' show-off of himself while we were surfaced. We could not figure out what it was all about.until wo submerged, aw could hear the whale on our sound devices coming nearer and rnajcujo. funny noises." When the vW nuzzled the submarine affectionately the crew was certain that its aup was being "courted." This went on »r some days bafore the whale flipP™ his tail disconsolately and swam on pj in search of something more respon* pj sive. But it was a really noble ex- pj periment. Bj ' SEE WAR ENDING. B Red troops on Zhukov's front netf BJ Berlin think the war is going to m pj pretty soon. One officer, just outj pj Poznan, told a "Daily Mail" correspond pj ent: "I've written home to myjw B asking her to press my civilian clot» X But," he said, "my men want to Jaw* pj when our friends in the west are pj going to make a start. My f.fl/i: ■ beginning to make a joke of itnew victory poster went up in » pj streets of Moscow recently. «J v X headed, "Salute," and depicts the wj pj of victory, with the Kremlin oug H in the glare of rockets and sola*- pj embracing their wives and cniiare" pj the Red Square. German news agenw. Hj quoting the Tokio newspaper X Shimbun," says the war against w. pj many has reached a teisive«%p Japan is now wondering what ait-' pj Russia will take up on the war ag<""- H MANX PEOPLE BOAST. _ B| Man wants home rule! .^v'^taVH some henpecked husband, dvi o j pj playground of millions, the j >> pj Man. The Home Secretary nas" M presented with a petition »r " jt3 pjf Rule, for the. island feels that j. pjg government has passed the tn°u- rf BJ year mark it is getting to the adoi» ~ pj stage, where the apron-strings ot » tf H minster might be relaxed a on. a- .& X miles out in the Irish Sea, Man m^ pj as well be seven thousand m»» pj in some respects as compare" eX . H the mainland with income tax, y (W pj ample, starting at only #; ' p| pound. The Manx people ff ,BJ they were never conquered »u,g& H English as the Irish, Scots, ana ' , E . pj were. And this is true, for a pj known fact is that the British o° w ment bought the island from tre pj ley family, to. whom it had oca pjn sented by Henry IV "for ever mt gave. £417,144 for it in 1828.^ BJ .'. PORT WINE BOTTLES M From the- manuscripts selectta^ pji the Muniment Room of the w ff e pi ful Company of Vintners, wnQ" pi find first reference to the use w Jff p pj in Great Britain was during! "£ ■ pi of Queen Elizabeth in 1590, ■£ a list of accounts signed by n topher Hatton, Lord Chance^'- H see:— at. inrri'S Bffi "Item for bottle for the loros » And in, ihe reign of Ja»k *5 ■ :by Lord Ellesmere, Chance) pn read:— . , „ *he l°r<l> Bh "Item for bottles to bnng ™ «| i wine in: 13s 4d." i, n ?on B'Jt"' BE ; "Item to- Edmund T«njins<a» H for corks to stop bottles h After this there are n#» H ;. ferences ;to ■■ bottles and cw* '^ jm H , thefreign- of Charles Iwe W" j6 30.| BJj reference to sweet wines, v js -" ■ ; 1666 the value of glass b°IUK" -«■