POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 129, 28 November 1945, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

JBY PERCY FLAGE

Now that Ezra Pound is in' trouble, he may look like nothing more than twopence.

Husbands in Court: There are two kinds of gas in our home—one heats the water and the other eats into my soul.

This little quotation could be taken lb heart by many people:— "It is a hard life, full of many troubles—but most of them .never happen." GAY. -» «• « LISTEN. An Irish nrtest offered sixpence to the boy who opuld tell him who was the greatest man in history. "Columbus," answered one boy. "George Washington*," answered another. . , ~• "St. Patrick," shouted a bright little Jewish boy. "The sixpence- is yours," said the priest. "But wfriy did you say St. Patrick?-'' "Right down in my heart I knew it was Moses," said the Jewish boy, "but business is business." '.i * * GOOD NIGHT, NURSE! Re the contro\*ersy 'over nurseswages, when I heard that the nurses were to take over fjie Exhibition hostel I laid in a stock of chocolates in anticipation of big business, being unaware of the wonderful salary they got. When a crowd of nurses came in on pay day and asked for sweets I proudly produced boxes at 3s 9d a box and upwards. There was? an embarrassed silence, then a voice .inquired, timidly: "Have you any penny halfpenny chew bars?" ■ „„„ E.C.R. Kilbirnie. , MOON CRY. A woman sat by a bexi Crooning the mothisr-croon, But the child cried, "Give me th« moon!" And would not be comforted. The moonbeams left the cot, The young child slept, till day, Then rose content to his play, The moon and the wish forgot. We cry for our moonbeams yet— Our.moons of Laurel -and Love; They pass to the dark above, But we cannot sleep and forget. * * * BRITISH WOMEN STHIANDED. Twenty British women who left England before the war to marry Japanese are now waiting impatiently to return to Britain so that they can become -re-naturalised, says a Tokio message. , _ j The women were deserted or divorced by their Japanese husbands and led a lonely marginal existence in Japan during the war. Although they were kept utader surveillance by the Japanese tijiey were not interned, because they had assumed their husbands' nationality on marriage, under Japanese law. They also lost their Britisb nationality under British law, and 5n order to regain it they must start naturalisation proceedings while on British soil. Many of the women have ftived in Japan for years in miserable circumstances, because they were deluded by their husbands before their marriage. They are now in a dilemma, "because Japanese nationals are barred- from travelling.

MOST PRESSING NEEDS

In the days of the Seddon Ministry the Otago Opposition members took concerted action one night in the House to urge the claims of neg2ected Otago for increased expendituiie to meet their most pressing needs. After each member had spoken it was quite clear that they had made out a most convincing case. Then Mr. Hogg, Government member for Masterton, rose and said he was surprised to hear the hon. members making such a claim. "Why, haven't your most pressing needs been recently attended to?" In one voice the Otago members indignantly demanded, "Where?" To which Mr. Hogg replied, "Haven't we recently enlarged your lunatic asylum and built you a" new gaol?" . The House exploded in sustained roars of hearty laughter, and the ridicule resulted in taking all the sting out. of their excellent appeal

A.J.H.