POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 154, 29 December 1930, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

BY PERCY FLAGIi

Chronicle and Comment

According to the conductor of a hit-or-miss inquiry column in the States, many people start their libraries with. Shakespeare. Others, again, with Stoele or Borrow, In all their startliugness—these head" lines from a London daily: , MATEENAL MOEALITY. ' What is the Medical Profession Doing? If there isn't a libellous implication here, the problem, obviously is one for the police or the sociologists. *' * « It was the "Ottawa Journal 3' that started the riot, but we, it appears, shall- have to finish it. The "0.J." misspelt the name of that Welsh town which begins with "Llan" and goes, on almost indefinitely to end 'with, "gogogoeh." Along happened an indignant "Welshman," who pointed out that a middle "h" stood all by itself. We reprinted the staggering word ia that style, and now "H.G.," Wellington, arrives with the intimation that as there is no "i" in the Welsh alphabet, the place-name should be spelt LIANFAYItPWLLGGWYNLLGOGERC H WYENDROBWLLANDYSYLYOGOGOCH. If that isn't correct we throw up thi spu'ngc. ** * • To correspondents: "M.P." (Petone). — "Fame"—"sano"—"home"! We shall have to lend you our rhyming dictionary. "Perce Lnmon."—As "indications" they were not far out, were they? And we still have several days to go. "Billikins" (AVellington).—The first, not the last line, must end with the word "fame." Shoot in another. "S.P."—Clcvcr-ish, but tinged with, libel. ' John H.T. (Hataitai).—Did we really promise a swine- song? You've too good a memory. Well—we'll just have to make good on that. Watch out. "Hardy Wilkes."—Thanks for what you say . . . and the same to you. if « •» Out upon so scurvy a knave as this! Let him be laid by the heels, and we shall have the double-headed battleaxe of the Percies1 stropped ready for action! Hearken. By my halidom, Sir Percic, when I did read your sweet column, at Tuesday vespers, I saw gules. Some false knight hath taken both my monniker and inspiration, and made of them an atrocitie. Shame on thy britc vertitude—wye hys verie spelynge betraies the scullion knight! Him I suspecte to be Sir Eoger Tichbourne . . , and may, lie gett her Eeward (in the nek). What myself had minded to write the faira ladye—had my troubadour soaber'd upp in time, was the reelstuf: Pryncesse, pray liolde me nott unkynde, It' V shudde read thy versse wyth doubt; Man moastlie needs thy "piece of minde" With the last two words left out. —Sir Galahad. # # * If that special article in Saturday* "Post" is reliable, there is gold and to .spare for everybody up at Tanami, in Nor'-West Australia. A catch in the glowing prospect is that Nature, a3 she frequently does, has tantalisiugly; omitted to provide water along with the precious ore. Nevertheless— We cannot back a winner Even by lucky chance. Our bank account grows thinue* ■ ■(A doleful circumstance). '.-■< Tired of vain pursuing . . Of rainbow fortune we, For weal, or our undoing, Are off to Tanami. There's gold there and to spare foe Those who can make the grade Aci-063 the wastes, and therefore 1 We've got a pick and spade; And when we've bought the canicl% And paid out- mining fee, We'll leave the city's trammels And !head for Tanami. Up there, the "gins" and Jacky Are hung .with gold, they say;. And for your beer or baccy Will bring you, any day, Oodles of yellow metal Set in the stone, or free. Yes, that's the place to settle, Way up at Tanami. But—we're a trifle nervous, It has to be confessed; They have no water service Up in the great Nor'-West. And emu fritters? No, friends! And nardoo scones we hate. ... We do not think we'll go, frieuds, Not now, at any rate. • • • These extracts from men. of the Japanese fleet, which visited us not so long ago, to a.'hospitable Wellington) resident, look quaint, but suppose 'it were you writing in pidgin Nipponese to your Geisha friend? "I wish to thank you from your kindness to sent mo so mariy phots of family which makes mo alway vivid the night we enjoyed so much there ay&, very convenient to tell my old mother, relations and friends about your typical sweet home. I shall keep these nice phots in my N family forever wishing your famiyes hoping and prosperity; Your sincerey"— And then this— "I have rather ashamed the delay of my'answer for your kindness of sending me I know tljat in your country the great earthquake took place by news paper, but I did not think so big. . . ■ By and by I send you the other two scenary [photos]. , Please tell my kind regard) to your wife and f amiry. I From the "schoolmaster of 2nd Primary School, Chimadamachi." "Dear Mr. » . I think you can remember the biggest gentleman among the schoolinas' tcrs named Isei Oishi on board . . . whoso head is baldish and have poor moustache. I, the above mentioned will never forget forever . . . tlje various facilities you have given me. . ." Another member of the '.' educational party" is effusively grateful. "Excuse me for my long silence. I thank you that you kindly sent me a photograph of your farmily who stand in your garden. . . And I am grateful from at battam my heart for your kind entreatment at that time. . And I am very glad to gain the excellences of New Zealand national life. I showed the photograph of your country's famans place to all my family, and my wifo says 'I keep forever the strang receptacle ... as one of my treures. . . Pleaso remember me to the dark eyed lady who was married to the man 270 miles away." . . \ And here's a Spring note — "We have a jolly spring now in our country cherry blossoms, arc now in full blooms, and the other various flowers blow at their best out." Finally, a letter of rich sentiment concluding with this benediction: "And I have the honour to propos* the now health of you all, 5?