POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 126, 25 November 1930, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

- BY PERCY FLAGE

Chronicle and Comment

"Post" headlines: :'■'-..■ THE COLLECTING HABIT. ■ MUSEUM OFTEN BENEFITS. ' ' -. Occasionally it suffers. It all ds« pends on .the morals of the souvenir hunter. « • > .- ; Now that the Pope has had telephones installed, it will not be necessary to wait for the' evening papers ito find out how the "Vatican Soccer team, fared that afternoon. . • . ».•■■••• Eskimos, we read, have taken: enthusiastically to midget golf. It should not be long now before'the igloo flappers will be insisting on nun's veiling and orange blossoms at the wedding and, in the fullness of time, rubbertired perambulators..' :. ■:■■.:'.! •■-.#. . ■■■■'.■:*■ ■ *'' V:■■:.. . "Pinnie: the Wooh" writes in. to sayj that ho (or she) has decoded that head* line, "Farmers' Uninaction," quoted th* other day in this column.' Our correspondent's solution is, "Farmers' Action,", obtained as follows :"Unina cation" means, of cpurse, :no inaction, ; therefore action. Do I receive that autographed poem!" '..■"■■' '■■•"■•.■■ : Look.out for the postie, little one; . he'll have . something jolly for you ia the next few days. But you have omitted to send your address. '-..', '■■'■ ■■ ■ ■♦' . ■' ' *■ '■■■■' - ♦. :' '■ '•:" ■ •. To clients of all: shapes, sizes,. and colours. .- -s ■-~..' .. :'■■:>■: ■ .•; You; know that- quaint kind of very; short story, iii which every word begins . with.the. same letter? .Like: this: Two '. twittering.torn-tits tried to twist their, tails together till/they thoroughly, tied; them. '■'■~...•'.- ■■~-.' ' - '„ :■' :.1.:"' W ell 'now, let's- have a party along that line. Sharpen your pencils (and your'imagination) and see: how far you can' go /coherently.using "ni" as the, initial letter;... ;i. ; ~:;-,.' 4 . ■ ■ ':. "~. ■.'.•••':■ ■■■.■.'•''*''• ■■".■■■-♦ ; >"■•■"■'■'' ' As cabled by. the NewiYork: corres* pondent of the "Morning.Post." . ' ..; Americans spend approximately £600,----000,000 • .annually : for intoxicating liquors,; or £200,000,000 more'than ia! / 1913, which was the record of preProhibition. days. •■ . T v. '- If these figures are even approximately right, they, suggest, that Uncle Sani will soon, be compelled to repeal thi Volstead. Act and get back to tha saloons in'the interests of national so- . briety. r'':: ''''-■"■■' ■'„ ■.■■/■■■:■-■■■■■ ■!■■,-\ •■. ;■;..■•-.; ■ ■ '■ ;.#■;" .';.:■■.■' *> ' ;." :*:;■■.;.■.'■: ■ . ' ' : '/Synthetic' old news on bur own pri- . vate wire: ;; r ■-' ~~ ' .;'"".'.:•■ To-daywe met a man who is going! to stop cigarettes to-morrow., \. '-■. ■ -Yesterday -an elderly woman' 'said "Thank you!" when a.mere male gavej up his seat: to her in a packed tram. ' Last Thursday our '. .mother-in-law wrote saying that she. was spending Christmas ,at home, but to look out fon a large parcel. It is authentically, stated in the right circles that the Welfare League1 i^ threatening to disown the Eiga corre- ' spondent'of the London "Times," and will declare .a ,closo season for Beds this Hogmanay! ,■ i, ' ' - • - Our Napier ' and' Christchurch -■" correspondents telephoned that the Minister^ of Education is preparing a" statement repudiating those eulogistic 'references to himself which-have recently appeared in our news columns. Our Cheapside representative reports that England is. marvelling at DoaJ Bradman being able to produce a bookj in between piling up cricket records^ explaining over the air how 'it was done, and keeping dates!with his flapper admirers. * ■ ♦ *.' "Mac," a follower of the broadsiders,wants to know if sixpence for threai sections' is. a fair thing. If the tram* ways manager cares to reply in a feivj shy stanzas we should love to publish them. Vers libre will do if Mr. Cabl* hasn't a rhyming dictionary. Dear Percy,— Like many of your readers, With a grouch they would express, ' I have taken up my pencil And am writing to the Press. Although the matter is quite smal^ j ■Just one of many cares; i I think the time is ripe to write A line about tram fares. .< On Saturday I took a tram From Gourtenay place, you know; . To go out to the Speedway, Where your reporters go. I got into the tramear And I didn't mind the squeeze} . But just imagine my surprise, When a" voice said: ' "Sixpence pl?ase." ' The conductor took my tanner And one for my girl friend; And we got out to the Speedway So we'll let that matter end. Now when the show was over, And wo were travelling home;; Well, the charge was just repeated, So no wonder people moan. Sixpence to go three sections Is a hold-up I would say; And still the tramway's management Maintains it does not pay. I don't expect concessions, Usual cash fares I don't mind; But to add on tuppence extra, Why I call it. most unkind. I heard tho Kelly Gang was dead, But the statement can't be right; So next time I'll seek protection In a taxi, green or white. , They say that taxis are quite cheap If each one pays his whack; So thanking you for all this space. I am, etc. MAC. ' , «• ■ • Multi-millionaire Whitney, for all his mountain of wealth, left nothing td charity. Andrew Carnegie devote^ v £.70,000,000 to public purposes during his life and bequeathed £7,000,000 at; his death. Henry Phipps,-the American steel magnate, when he died re* cently, left an estate worth £55,000,h i 000. He made lavish gifts during hi^ I life, but died with the bulk of his for? tune intact. These two giants of thai American steel industry lived parallel lives. Carnegie was a poor Scotch lad and Phipps the poor son of an English, shoemaker who settled In Philad-»iphia. Carnegie became an errand'boy, Phipp3 an office boy. While Carnegie ifi later life dispensed lavish hospitality at! Skibo Castle, Scotland, Phipps lived like a prince in the neighbouring Beaufort Castle. Beside the immense fortunes made by these men, the following make a poor comparison: Thomas F. Ryan, £25,000,000; Sir David Yule,, £20,000,000; John Wanamaker £15,« 000.000; Lord Iveagh, £11,000,000. Ten' members of tho Coats family left in all • & 25,000,000, . and one estate in the. Wills family approached £10,000,000* What John Rockefeller and Henry Fordwill leave behind them when-they goj where mere material wealth is said no# to count may set new figures. ■