POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle andCornmem

A scandal is something that has to be bad to be good. ', . : ■ '.■'*'■ ■ ■■' * : ■■■'■■. •■/ •*' ■■ ■■■■ ■■ ■ England's secret weapon is made not"' of materials but of spirit:—Sir Gerald Campbell. . * - ; #.■■...■;*■■.... A Jap civilian bowed so effusively welcoming the first American ship to tie up at Tokio docks that he backed right off the wharf and into the harbour. / . * * , * RECORD. An egg within an* egg came from Mr. George Frost's poultry farm at Casula (N.S.W.). It measured 8J inches in circumference length-wise, -7 inches around, and weighed more than 5J ounces. The average egg weighs two ounces. The "inside" egg was of normal size. Both contained yolks. The world's record. egg, Boz, is claimed for a Lithgow (N.S.W.) black Orpington, 30 years ago. '■■,■# * * EXPEDITION. Before the Japs entered the war there was an expedition from their country to the' Antarctic region. The small shipload of men last left some Australian port, perhaps Melbourne. Since then nothing has been heard of them, but if this crew of Japs is still in the Antarctic region, and chopping off young icebergs to float away to the north, well, in my opinion, they seem, to be making a very good job of >it FROZEN BILL. Kaiwarra- Dump: . » c *, ! ANSWER. Dear Flage,—You are not quite accurate in saying the other day that the English Channel was first crossed by rowing-boat in 1930. My father, when a schoolboy at Folkestone some time before the Boer War, coxed a riverracing four across to Calais, and another bey sailed facross at about the' same time in a canoe made in the school workshop. Before their time, too, there must surely have been some simple rowing-boats amongst the galleys, coracles, and other floating objects that took our ancestors acrosi from the continent. tt * ■ ' . '*'•' *•'"»' HERE IS SPRING. ' / How merrily the heart does sing When in the garden everything Declares that here, at last, is Spring.. The air turns mellow, Sun warms the early morning breeze And swells the buds on orchard trees, Borders glow with blue heart's ease And tulips yellow. And here and there a rosebud ted Comes shyly,to the garden bed; There soars a lark far overhead. A blithesome fellow. ', •Yond the hedge turned* freshly greea There pasture kine, and plainly ■ seen Are progeny that leap between, With sportive bellow! _,-,„'■ F.E.ivL-S. Lower Hutt. *~ * * " , SCHUR'S SILK PYJAMAS. Worth more than £15,000,000 when the Nazis marched into Czechoslo* vakia, seven years ago, Jan Schui (58) stood in the London Bankruptcy Court unable to . pay his debts oi £1873. ' . „ Schu'r said when he arrived in England in 1942, by way of Switzerland, Portugal, and France, his wealth was £50, together with 18 silk shirts •(worth £72), six sets of silk pyjamas. (£76), and six pairs of socks (£l2). He had received only £3190 in the last three and a half years, being unable to get cash from his assets abroad. ~ , The examination was adjourned pending investigations into Schurs fortune —silk and velvet mills and sugar refineries. * # • --• MATERIAL WITHOUT COUPONS.' r -At least 50,000 women .are walking around Britain in costumes made from calico sold as mattress shields. This method of" sidestepping the . clothing shortage was revealed when five' company directors were fined £13,000 at Old Bailey for conspiring to supply material without coupons. About 120,000 yards of-cloth were involved. _, . ■ The trial, which began on October 1, .cost £1000 a day in fees for six King's Counsel and juniors and ended suddenly when the five directors changed their pleas to guilty. A Scotland Yard detective gave evidence that he spent months investigating the case: He was called m by the Board of Trade when housewives x began to rush this coupon-free cloth. He travelled 3500 miles tracking down , the shields which were fitted with easily detachable adhesive tapes so that the women could remove them without injuring the cloth.